Re: [Banshee-List] Scoring question

[Brian Lucas <bcl1713 gmail com>]

As an aside there is also a bug in the current implementations math that won't let the score reach 100 that I never figured out. Its upper limit is somewhere in the high nineties I believe but my memory might be failing me.

On May 11, 2011 7:52 PM, "Brian Lucas" <bcl1713 gmail com> wrote:
> The logic behind percentage being used is songs you may like with long
> annoying outros or "skits" tagged on the end. The more you listen the more
> you like. :) I won't be offended if this gets nixed though. As I said before
> this is quite old code and my job prevents me from being as involved as I
> once was.
> On May 11, 2011 7:13 PM, "Freddy-N" <freddy-neumann arcor de> wrote:
>> [UPDATE]
>>
>> After reading the souce code from TrackInfo.cs, I see that there is a
>> misunderstanding in the use of PlayCount and SkipCount. PlayCount is not
> the
>> total count of plays, it is the count of non-skipped plays. The total
> count
>> of plays is PlayCount+SkipCount.
>>
>> In calculating Score the old value and an additional variable
>> "percentCompleted" is taken into account.
>>
>> Score(n+1) := f(Score(n), PlayCount, SkipCount, percentCompleted)
>>
>> This makes things much more complicated. Score can't be re-calculated from
>> PlayCount and SkipCount.
>>
>>
>> So I don't know if it is a good idea to use percentCompleted in
> calculating
>> Score.
>>
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