Hey guys,
never thought that ratings can get so complicated :-) I can follow
Albert's concerns but I also have some arguments to leave it as it is.
See some of my comments below...
Am 15.11.2010 08:56, schrieb RJ Ryan:
can we please implement GMail keybindings in the library table?
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Albert Santoni <albe...@mixxx.org
<mailto:albe...@mixxx.org>> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM, RJ Ryan <rr...@mit.edu
<mailto: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?).
This, however, breaks consistency. From a user perspective it might look
strange if our native library features have 1-star and foreign features
have 5 stars. It is a de-facto standard to use 5 stars in many audio
applications including Traktor, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.
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 <mailto: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 do rate my song. My newer playlists are organized by quarter and often
around 100 tracks of genre.
5 stars --> awesome track, a must to play
4 stars --> good track
3 stars--> warm up tracks /lounge / etc.
< 3 stars--> to be honest, never used
Of course, these are my semantics. And I agree that it could make sense
to split my playlists up into smaller parts ( a playlist for lounge or
warm up tracks, one for good tracks, one for awesome tracks). However,
here's also a problem for me. Mixxx does not support sub playlists at
the moment. Per genre, I'd like to have sub playlist representing my way
of organization. That's why my playlists become large and ratings help
me to spot my favorite tracks.
I my opinion, a 1-star rating brings semantic problems similar to the
NULL issue in databases.
What does 1-star mean? It's a rated song! But that's all?
What does 0-stars mean? Useless track, never play it? Or does it mean a
rating is available but it has not been applied? Or does it mean, the
track has not been rated yet?
Most of the discussion is may be driven from our education in computer
science :-) I would be surprised if other users come up with semantic
problems :-)
>> 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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