>i think its a mistake to assume either: > >1. that other users would necessarily NOT want anothers ratings, or >2. that that should trump the issue of persistence. > I agree with Erland, ratings *are* personal. My wife's music and my music are both hosted on the same SqueezeCenter. She would rate my music low, and I'd rate her music low, but we have an intersection of music tastes that are high.
Given persona's, we'd have different ratings. >afterall, if someone does copy the files, (which in many cases is >illegal, not that i'm bothered), they can change the ratings >themselves. > I wouldn't want someone elses ratings. If I want to play 5* rated music, I wouldn't want something that I haven't rated 5*. It defeats the purpose of rating. >what intrigues me about what you write about is the idea that POPM >supports multiple users! thats very cool, how does it do it? > Theoretically. But no-one follows the standard. >however, if both WMP and winamp do things the same way, i think others >will gradually fall in line. iTunes fall in line with a windows product? No chance! >have you used WMP? *it uses 5 stars.* i don't know what MM does, i've >assumed the same. > MusicIP uses 5* ratings. I think MediaMonkey (from my limited play before I uninstalled the trash) could import iTunes ratings, and had 5* ratings (possibly half star ratings). However, that doesn't indicate how the rating is stored, nor where it is stored. That is the issue. eg. TrackStat displays 5* ratings, but holds the rating internally as a number 0-100. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
