MrSinatra;591772 Wrote: > i totally agree, (although my personal wish would be for 0-7, but i can > live with 0-5). > > <snip> > > similar to mine. i use the 5 stars as: > > 5=awesome/classic > 4=good/solid > 3=indifferent/avg/unmemorable/no strong feelings or impressions either > way > 2=dislike > 1=hate > > and when i rate, i think to myself "when i do a random mix, do i want > to hear this again?" if i do, it gets a 4 or 5. > > since i collect music i like, most of my stuff skews into the 4/5 > range, with most being 4s, which is only natural. > > i do see a distinct difference between 1 and 2 though, but like i said, > i agree with you that most users won't have a lot of music they don't > like. > > well sure, but while i might not want to hear anything under 4/5, it is > meaningful to me to know where it is... is it a 1, 2, or 3? > > think of the rotten tomatoes website... it is interesting to rate bad > movies on a 0-100 scale, so you can see them in relationship to each > other. this is one area where granularity does matter... just HOW bad > is it? (or how good?) while songs for a user are best handled by 5 or > 7 stars, when a community of users avg together, 0-100 makes sense. > > also, granularity allows for fractions of a star, which is something > windows/wmp does represent via POPM.
well, having now rated thousands and thousands of tunes, i have decided to change my scale. it simply isn't sufficient to only have two levels of stuff i like, esp when i have 3 (or four if you count unrated) levels of "i don't like." i hate to do it, b/c 3 is the "natural" mid-point where indifference should be. but it has to be done. i need 3 levels of like. so now my rating system will look like this: 5=awesome/classic (three thumbs up) 4=very good/solid (two thumbs up) 3=good enough to be in the random mix, but not super (one thumb up) 2=indifferent/unmemorable/no strong feelings or impressions either way 1=dislike, hate, any negative feeling at all so this is a bitch, b/c i have to rerate a lot of 2-4 star files. and i basically lose any granularity in what i don't like, i can't connotate degree now. it also isn't intuitive; unless i explain it, i don't think people will "get" what 2 star or 3 star mean to me. but i need at least three levels of granularity for what i like, what i consider positive above the avg. i am hoping that LMS will start reading ratings in the native app. its insane that it doesn't already. POPM is standard by spec and implementation as far as i can tell, and 0-100 for vorbis also seems fairly standard, although perhaps erland said LMS/SBS already does read vorbis ratings? -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & droid (my home) / duet & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.5b - win7 ie9 & xp pro sp3 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 49k+ mp3/flac ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
