Morbeas wrote: > I asked for this in the past but since there's a new version out, I > thought I'd give it another shot: > > Can you please implement half-star ratings? I know you had said that it > needed to be an elegant implementation but I think the "press it once > it's a full star and press it a second time and it becomes a half star" > way of doing it is both effective and intuitive.
There's already a way to use "half star ratings" in iPeng if you have TrackStat, and you do. It's not as slick as perhaps you'd like it, but it's possible and I have been using "half stars" for years. Here's how: 1. You must be using a 1-10 scale in LMS Settings > Advanced > TrackStat > Rating Settings > Rating scale from 1-10: Choose 1-10. (I believe the default is 1-5). 2. When a song is playing in iPeng (or by choosing it in some other method), press and hold the album art until the context menu for the song appears. Scroll down until the Rating appears. You have a scale of 1-10 to choose from. Rate as you wish. Like I said, I've been doing this for years. It's more steps than I would like, but I deal with it. pippin wrote: > Actually I'm even thinking about completely replacing the logic with one > only using "love" and "ban" from Last.fm and importing that back. Please don't. Bitte. erland wrote: > [I]t would be interesting to hear from someone that actually use > half-star ratings how and why they use them. I use my ratings a lot like you already imagine. I have 22,000 songs in my library. Not all of them are rated. Of the ones that are this is how I rate them (and why). I use a 1-10 scale because 1-5 is not granular enough for me...unless I were to completely change my scale. 10 (5): Songs I absolutely love. I call these my "single song repeat" songs. That means I could put the song on single song repeat and not get sick of listening to just that one song over and over. I have 175 songs that are in this category. 9 (4.5): I _really_ like these songs. They almost belong in the Single Song Repeat category, but there's something about them that keep the from making it over the hump. I have 492 songs rated a 9. 8 (4): I like these songs a lot. The difference for me between a 7 (next category) and an 8 (this one) is whether it makes it to my iPhone or iPod. Due to space I have to be choosy. Therefore, the cut off is at 8. 7 (3.5): I like these songs and would like to hear them again. This is the cut off for me as to really wanting to hear the song again versus just not minding if the song pops up in a playlist. I build playlists off of songs rated 7 or higher. I have more than 3500 songs in this category. When there are that many songs it takes a while to listen to them all. So, I have many playlists (over 30) where I combine rating plus last played (7+ 30 Days, 8+ 60 Days, 9+ 90 Days, 10+ 180 Days, etc.). 6 (3): This is limbo. These are songs that I like more than a 5, but don't rise quite to the level of making it to a 7. 5 (2.5): Run of the mill average song. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. If it comes on in a random mix, it won't catch my attention, but I won't mind it either. Background noise. (I have some playlists where I combine songs rated 5 not played in the last 365 days with songs rated 7 or higher so I get a good mix of stuff I like and stuff I haven't heard in a long time.) 4 (2): A lot like the 3 category. The songs are just eh. 3 (1.5): My life would be just fine if I didn't hear these songs again. 2 (1): I never need to hear these again. 1 (.5): If I could bring myself to delete songs from my library, I would start with these. They suck. A lot. And that's just the songs I've rated. I still have thousands of songs I haven't rated. Could I get away with a 1-5 rating scale? Maybe, but it looks like I need at least six options. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ prabbit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11142 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
