I've found the stars to be very helpful. I fill my iphone with songs that
have no stars. Since about the only interactive thing you can do with music
on an iphone/pod is change the rating - might as well be productive while
out-n-about.
5 - top notch
4 - very good
3 - ok
2 - remix candidate
1 - delete when i get a chance
Once in a while i'll select all the 1 star songs and delete them.
When i have some time, i'll re-listen to the 2 star songs for segments i may
want to loop for DJ tools, etc... those go into a "remix me" playlist - then
get messed with and bastardized in ableton.
I also use iTunes' "Smart Playlists" (not sure if this is available in the
pc version). These are very handy for organizing playlists for import into
traktor and what-not. (sorry guys, i'm not using mixxx quite yet).
Generally I don't DJ anything below 4 stars (except for remixes/loops - but
those get re-rated), and smart playlists make it super easy to organize for
sets.
I wonder if a 1 star system could be implemented in a skin? I don't know
much about the skinning capabilities in mixxx.
Anyways - just another take on how 5 stars can be handy.
Also I wanted to thank Garth for the posting on enabling 1/2 stars - i've
been wanting that - and occasionally i'll see something with a half star
rating and couldn't figure out how to do that in itunes. If only i could do
that on the iphone...
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Albert Santoni <albe...@mixxx.org> wrote:
> Warning: Possible giant troll.
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I've always had a beef with 5-star ratings in music applications
> that's turned me off using them. I struggle with the meaning of each
> rating, and it's always been my hunch that just having a single star
> column that you can toggle (a la GMail) would be way more convenient.
>
> What's the difference between 3, 4 star, and 5 stars?
>
> If you rate songs as 1 star (out of 5), why do you even have that in
> your library? (In Mixxx, you can "Remove" them.)
>
> The mapping from a 5-star system to my imaginary 1-star system would be:
> 4, 5 stars --> starred
> 2, 3 stars --> unstarred
> 1 star --> remove
>
> Does anyone actually use all 5 stars?
>
> I don't want to rag on Tobias' great work on the star widget. :) If we
> were go to a 1-star system, we could definitely still use his widget
> without modification for our external track sources.
>
> Thanks, and hopefully someone can set me straight.
> Albert
>
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