A few thoughts: I like the idea of a ratings tag in the actual file itself. That way, it moves with the file. But rating files from the slimserver interface becomes a problem, then. You don't ever want slimserver to write tags. But you could get slimserver to write to the ratings field in the database. Then the main problem is how to populate the file tags from the ratings field. I suppose it could be done with a separate script that calls a command-line tagger.
A larger problem with ratings as a whole is that, for me, the 5-star system is too coarse. I've been using TrackStat for months and I find that 90% of my ratings are "3". So the only real benefit is in excluding the 5% of tracks that are 1-2 or including the 5% of tracks that are 4-5. I would much rather have a 0-9 rating system, or even a 00-99 system. I see that the POPM rating field is a value between 1-255. If we go to all the trouble of implementing ratings in slimserver, I feel we should design a finer-grained system than the iTunes 5-star system. Thanks for reading my suggestions. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23448 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
