On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:31, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > You don't need to quit and restart rb for this to happen; if autorating > works the way I expect, you get feedback even between one song and the next. That's true. > | But maybe it would make sense to disable autorating when we're in > | weighted-random playback? Or maybe just disable the positive weighting > | parts, and keep the negative rating when you skip, etc. > > The point of autorating is that songs you like more get played more. It > would be counterproductive to turn off autorating at the only time you > can see its effects. It's possible that the rating or weighting > algorithms need to be tweaked. If anything, it's probably the weighting > one since imms (where rating came from) would have had exactly the same > problem. Also, keep in mind that the weighting we're using penalizes a > song for being played recently. Ah. Avoiding recently-played songs would probably alleviate the problem. Well, let's just leave it as is, and see if it turns out to be a problem in practice.
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