Re: [Banshee-List] Dynamic rating metadata: forwarded from the Amarok list

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com> wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-list post, but I had an idea that almost seemed
> epiphanic (a word?), that I believed I should at least mention it for
> both of my favorite Linux players.  The idea depends on a
> dynamic-scoring system that is then translated to the song-file
> ratings tag.
>
> Yes, I am not sure that Banshee has an Amarok-like dynamic scoring
> system, but I believe that the ability to dynamically assemble
> rating-tags is such a good one, I wish to mention it here.  I
> apologize if inappropriate. :)

We have a patch for similar-to-Amarok scoring that will almost
certainly be in Banshee 1.6 -
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555116

Given that, you could easily write an extension to convert the scores
to ratings for unrated songs.

Gabriel