My usage is pretty much exactly this, no half-stars though. 1 usually means
either delete or I'm only hanging onto this b/c it's part of an album and I
don't want to have only some tracks of a full album.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Garth Dahlstrom <ga...@mixxx.org> wrote:
> I bastardize iTunes 5-star rating system in the following way:
>
> 0 - Unreviewed / Undecided
> 1 - Delete this song, its aweful
> 2 - Good song, quality problem (I some ripped stuff and older stuff w/
> pops, clicks and skips)
> 3 - Crappy song
> 4 - Decent song
> 5 - Good song
>
> I also cheat a bit, because there is a way to enable half (i.e.
> http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Enable-Half-Stars-In-Itunes/) stars
> in iTunes and I use that to make from 3-5 a bit more granular.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -G
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Albert Santoni <albe...@mixxx.org> wrote:
>
>> Warning: Possible giant troll.
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I've always had a beef with 5-star ratings in music applications
>> that's turned me off using them. I struggle with the meaning of each
>> rating, and it's always been my hunch that just having a single star
>> column that you can toggle (a la GMail) would be way more convenient.
>>
>> What's the difference between 3, 4 star, and 5 stars?
>>
>> If you rate songs as 1 star (out of 5), why do you even have that in
>> your library? (In Mixxx, you can "Remove" them.)
>>
>> The mapping from a 5-star system to my imaginary 1-star system would be:
>> 4, 5 stars --> starred
>> 2, 3 stars --> unstarred
>> 1 star --> remove
>>
>> Does anyone actually use all 5 stars?
>>
>> I don't want to rag on Tobias' great work on the star widget. :) If we
>> were go to a 1-star system, we could definitely still use his widget
>> without modification for our external track sources.
>>
>> Thanks, and hopefully someone can set me straight.
>> Albert
>>
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