MrSinatra;398093 Wrote: > > moreover, most apps don't maintain separate DBs for differing users of > the same music. in fact, do any? does SC? i don't use erlands stuff, > so i don't know how it works. > SqueezeCenter doesn't support multiple ratings for the same track today neither do my plugins.
I think it's planned to make this possible in SqueezeCenter 8.0 when the new database schema is planned to be introduced. However, even though it's possible I'm still not sure Logitech will make ratings a priority as they've so far tried to avoid having information in the SqueezeCenter database that needs to survive a rescan. MrSinatra;398093 Wrote: > > if there is broad consensus on 5 stars already, (and half stars) then > at least thats a good start. hopefully WMP and winamp can be congruent > with as many other apps already doing this out there as possible, and > then at that point it becomes a de facto standard. > There is a broad consensus on 5 star ratings when ratings are displayed or set by a user. I really hope Logitech is going to fall into the 5-star rating scheme when they start to display rating stars in their interface. Today the only way to display stars in the interface is to use either TrackStat or iTunes Update plugin, both which supports a 5-star rating scheme. However, there is a difference how ratings are shown to the user and how they are stored internally. How they are stored internally differs from application to application, most applications use a value between 0-100 or 0-255 internally. Unfortunately the POPM tag in the ID3 standard defines a value between 0-255 which promotes the use of this internal value when writing ratings to the POPM tag. It would have been so much easier if the ID3 specification defined that the POPM tag could contain a value between 0-5 since it would make it harder for someone (like Microsoft) to decide to use a different scale than the rest of the market. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59929 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
