pippin wrote: > > #2... This is one of these features.... I don't know... Arguments > against it: I don't get it, it makes the whole thing more complex and > there are so few people using it.... > Also... I'm desperately trying to make the whole rating systems mess > _less_ complex, not more, to have a chance to actually add it to Apple > Watch, too. Problem is. right now there are like 4 dimensions for this: > > > > - Rating stars for local tracks - "love" for remote tracks (theoretically also for local ones but > you have to use the context menu) - Add to Favorites - "star" for Spotify (and theoretically other services) > > > > > Maybe Last.fm no longer is a thing but I know a lot of users still use > it (more than 10-scale ratings). > > Ans how to get all that onto just one button... > > But yes, we'll see, it should be possible but I'm not totally > convinced, yet. OK. Let me take my best shot at convincing you - Erland's awesome Trackstat plugin supports a 10 point rating scale. More compatibility with that would be great. - Trackstat dynamic ratings create ratings that would display better with a finer-grained star control - While I know that much of the world is increasingly focused on streaming, the Squeezebox community is full of people with carefully curated and tagged collection of many thousands of songs. 5 points don't really cut it for such collections. - If people only have ratings that are a multiple of 20, it will display exactly like it does now, but for people who have finer-grained ratings it will display better - Working better with Last.FM is certainly a plus, esp. in Squeezebox community - IIUC, iTunes displays half stars for Last.FM - We already know it works great on SqueezeCommander. There are zero posts complaining about that. Admittedly, there are none lauding it (although I am about to add one, because I love it), but people are much more likely to complain about things they don't like. - While it is technically "more complicated," I am having trouble understanding how anyone could find it confusing. My guess is people who don't care about it won't even notice. - If you wanted, you could make it a setting like trackstat does. People who don't want half star will never even worry about it My bottom line is that while it's not a world-changing feature (although it's important to me, so I'd be happy to make a donation to help support it), there are a bunch of upsides, and I personally don't see much, if any, of a downside (I know some will disagree).
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