Re: [Muine] Feature Request

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

Hi,

Personally, I find a whole manual rating system rather overkill. I think
giving songs a certain internal rating based on how often they are
played would be better. See http://www.jbaayen.dds.nl/proposal.html on
how one would be able to browse by "most popular songs", or "never
played songs", for instance.

Cheers,

Jorn

�el kenal p�al (reede, 27. august 2004, 12:15-0300), kirjutas Rene
Valois:
> Hello all,
> 
> I haven't posted in quite awhile, but I've been following Muine and it's
> becoming truly great software. I'm just a regular user of muine with
> some comments, hopefully they will be of use to you. 
> 
> Please excuse me if I'm going over covered ground here. I've read the
> TODO and searched the mailing list to the best of my ability.
> 
> I don't always know what I want to play. Most of the time I like to just
> open up my music library and queue anything that grabs my attention.
> Muine doesn't accomodate this type of browsing very well.
> 
> Clicking on "Add Songs" results in a dialog that doesn't show all the
> songs in my music library. The only way of narrowing things down is the
> search field. The search field works well if I know I want to listen to
> something by Led Zepplin, but when I don't know what I want to listen
> to, it doesn't help. As a user, I'm *expected* to use the search
> function to narrow things down, and not all my songs are shown in the
> dialog otherwise. This makes it inadequate for browsing.
> 
> This is one area, IMO, where Rhythmbox does things very well. I can
> browse by artist, album, *OR* songs without having to put in search
> terms.
> 
> Secondly, I'm not sure where Jorn comes down on the idea of ratings. I
> searched the mailing list for "rate" and "ratings" and came up with
> nothing. 
> 
> I think song ratings would be very useful and probably will integrate
> well with the planned grouping features. Again, ratings accomodate the
> sort of lazy music listener I am. I may have my playlist populated with
> a bunch of new stuff, and hear something out of my new music that I
> really enjoy, so I give it 4 stars. Otherwise, I have to remember the
> name of the track and who it's performed by if I don't want it to be
> lost in my gigantic music library until the next time I stumble upon it.
> 
> A group along the lines of "Four Star songs added within the last week"
> would be a good way of keeping track of songs I like, but may otherwise
> forget. Ratings could come in handy for favorites groups (five stars),
> and even for hiding bad songs that sneak into the library with otherwise
> good albums (one star), ensuring it never finds it's way onto the
> playlist.
> 
> There also seems to be a good place for five stars just underneath the
> artist name and the time remaining on the main window. Muine could be
> the first open source player to really nail the rating implementation. 
> 
> Anyways, that's it from me.
> 
> Thanks for listening :)
> 
> -rv
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