Philip Meyer;397785 Wrote: > I find a rating of 0-5 just fine. I believe the idea of using a more > detailed scale was that you could automatically get ratings to change > up/down a value when a song is played/skipped. However, I frequently > play random songs, and and skip songs - it doesn't mean I like them or > hate them any more than before.
0-5 is good for me too, but some people like half stars, and i can't fault that (0-10). i don't want ratings either in SC or in the file tags to change based on how i play the music. fine for others, not me. my main beef at the moment is in not understanding the values. 0-100? 0-255? what does WMP use and does FLAC and others follow it? Philip Meyer;397785 Wrote: > Ratings/stats are a complete nightmare. I use various apps for various > reasons, and trying to keep them in sync is hard work, because they are > all different (most apps store in their own internal DB). The best > thing seems to be to consider SqueezeCenter DB as the master for > ratings, as it supports the most formats (non-DRM), and the information > is (currently) freely accessible from the database, so it's easy to > backup/import/export. thats no good for me. i think if WMP, MM, and Winamp all start to do it the same way, thats a near de facto consensus, one that'll reliably be cross app, and one that SC can begin to support natively, and the tag is in the spec afterall. moreover, i want the info in the file it represents, not in an abstract DB that i don't trust, and that isn't easy to port. i mean, if you're gonna do ratings tags in a db, why not all tags? why just ratings? theres a reason you do it in the tags, and build the db from that. Philip Meyer;397785 Wrote: > Does WinAmp have its own DB for storing stats, or does it only work with > tags? winamp has its own db, and currently you can rate files in the db, but the rating does not persist if u have to clear the DB. it keeps stats too, again, only in the db. however, many tags and the db are updated together for other fields, like say "artist." i rarely need mp3tag b/c winamp does just about everything i need it to, and it is insanely fast scanning files, (esp rescans, and it picks up everything, unlike SC) Philip Meyer;397785 Wrote: > If it only works with tags, you are not going to be able to support all > apps, because other apps don't read tags, or support rating tags in > different ways (such that you can't decide what a value in a rating tag > represents, unless you know/can work out what app wrote it). > > Phil afaik, only WMP and MM support the POPM tag. i hope they do it the same way, using the same values to mean the same thing. the winamp guys don't care about MM or slim stuff much i don't think, so my guess is they will try to do whatever they do with this to equate with WMP and build a consensus that way. at that point, if they weren't congruent, i'd assume SC and MM would work to becoming congruent, b/c that would be the logical thing to do. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (my home) / SBR (parent's home) / SBC (my home) - w/SC 7.3.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59929 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
