On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM, RJ Ryan <rr...@mit.edu> wrote: > Anti-troll troll: How do we map metadata tag ratings that are on a 1-5 scale > (like every other app out there, iTunes included) to the 0/1 scale? Are we > going to split that one star up into fifths ?
For the iTunes external source, just leave it as a 5-star system. We'd only have to map to the 1-star system if we were to do real importing, which we don't (yet?). To pour more gas on the fire, how are ratings different than crates? They're just labels... Albert > > RJ > 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture >> Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using >> Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end >> client virtualization framework. Read more! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Mixxx-devel mailing list >> Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
