Phil Leigh;665478 Wrote: > +1 > Life is too short to rate tracks... And rating tracks is actually the > antithesis of music discovery, especially if you are going to use > ratings to seed random playlists.
-1 I disagree. Erland's excellent plugins provide the tools to create the (IMHO) close-to-ultimate smart music selection system (short of actually determining your taste by reading your mind or using the "if you liked X then you'll probably like Y because other people who liked X like Y" Spotify-type shared rating model). I have written a simple SQL playlist (using his plugins) that randomly plays songs but unrated songs are played most frequently, 5 star songs next most frequently, 4 star next, etc. 1 star songs are never played. For me, this is the perfect system: - no decision to make when you want to listen to music - new (i.e. unrated) and more favoured songs are played more frequently - you can always "rediscover" any songs (except those banished to 1 star oblivion) and re-rate them if you want This is why I have donated for Erland's plugins in the past but, I have to admit, probably not enough considering I that almost all my listening is via this playlist :( -- briank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ briank's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1249 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
