Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Enchancement Idea ccn ratings

[Joe Webster <joe cawfeemilk com>]

Actually, this is a good workaround.

   I did what Peter suggested and created an automatic playlist for 2 
or more stars in the rating. I also added a second line item for rating 
is 0. I then checked the "if any criteria are met". So that gives me 
2-5, and 0, but not 1.

   So now, any songs I don't rate are there, and as soon as I rate them 
1, they no longer show up in the playlist.

   This helped me so I thought I would share it with all of you. I 
could live w/o the "Skip songs w/ one star" since a playlist seems like 
the better way to handle this.

Thanks,
Joe

Peter wrote:
> Joe Webster wrote:
> > I've been using the rating system in rhythmbox to help weed out songs 
> > I don't like. I rate them 1 star as I hear songs I don't like, then 
> > later I sort by rating, highlight all the 1-star songs, and move to 
> > trash. So far it works well.
> >
> > I had a thought that it would be nice to have an option that would 
> > allow me to Not play/skip songs with 1 star ratings. That way, once I 
> > mark it with one star, I won't hear it again.
>
> I do something similar:  I have a "good stuff" search playlist setup 
> three or more stars.  I usually play a random selection from the "Good 
> Stuff".
>
> The catch is that when searching it seems that "unrated/zero stars" is 
> treated as a zero rather than a null (unrated).  This means whenever I 
> add new musics to my collection it initially his unrated/zero stars.
>
> I have to manually give it a rating of say 3 stars to appear on my 
> "good stuff list".  To make this as simple as possible, I have another 
> "unrated" automatic playlist set to match zero stars.  I then select 
> all of the results, and edit their rating to be three.
>
> See also: Bug 345866 – Unrated versus zero / no stars
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345866
>
> > I tried to search the mailing list to see if something like this had 
> > already been submitted, but the search is offline.
>
> I would like a rating-weigted random mode (where more stars means more 
> likely to be played; but taking into account the total tracks for each 
> rating), but that's getting complicated...
>
> Peter