MrSinatra;591757 Wrote:
>
> what apps rate flacs and use a 0-100 scale? foobar? how can i convince
> winamp to switch? 0-5 seems so limited, meaning they could never go to
> half stars or allow for granularity.
>
I wonder how MediaMonkey works ? Have you checked ?
For most users 0-5 should be good enough, I suspect very few users feel
a need to use more than 5 rating levels. There might be users that want
to differ between a strong 4 and a normal 4 but the same people
probably don't have any need at all to differ between a 1 and a 2.
I suspect many users is like me and use ratings to differ between:
- Excellent 5 stars
- Good: 4 stars
- Normal: 3 stars
- Crap: 1-2 stars
Which would mean that a 4 level scale would actually be good enough.
A more detailed scale makes sense if you start to combine ratings from
different users and if ratings are automatically changed based on
listening behavior, but not if the rating is set by a single user to a
specific value. For example a community site where users together has
rated something as 82% is different than something they have rated as
75%. Of course, also in this scenario, it's pretty uninteresting if
something is rated as 10%, 25% or 35% because it's probably all crap
and something I don't want to purchase if I trust the community.
So to sum it up, in a local library on a local file system, I think the
main reason to have more granularity than 0-5 is if you like to support
automatic modification of ratings based on listening behavior. In
addition to this, one advantage in TrackStat of the 0-100 scale is that
I can easily offer an option to display the ratings as a 0-5 or a 0-10
stars scale.
MrSinatra;591757 Wrote:
>
> btw, what is 3 stars in 0-100? is it 50 or 60? (60 is what i would
> expect it to be)
>
In TrackStat, I'm using 60 for 3 stars, to be specific the TrackStat
scale is:
90-100 -> 5 star
70-89 -> 4 star
50-69 -> 3 star
30-49 -> 2 star
10-29 -> 1 star
0-9 -> 0 star
However, there isn't a standard mapping between 0-100 percentage and
0-5 stars, so everyone does their own interpretation at the moment.
To be honest, I'm not sure it makes sense to have 60 as three stars as
I'm sure most people have more music in the 3-5 range than in the 0-3
range, so it should be better to have more granularity in the 3-5 range
which a 50=3 star interpretation would result in. It's not easy change
this after people have started to use it because then it means that
tracks people earlier has rated as 3 stars suddenly would be close to 4
stars if the interpretation was changed.
MrSinatra;591757 Wrote:
>
> they also plan to do ratings for mp4/m4a, but i have no idea how, what
> field/data range. what would SBS want for those?
>
SBS doesn't care, SBS doesn't support any rating tag besides a tag
called exactly "RATING" that contains a 0-100 integer value. I would be
very surprised if rating functionality was added to SBS now, we have
asked for it for a many years now and it's pretty obvious that no one
at SlimDevices nor at Logitech cares about ratings.
Try to focus on uniting the others and hope for SBS to follow if
everyone else does it the same way.
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