Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] automatic rating and weighted random

[Benjamin Otte <in7y118 public uni-hamburg de>]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Paul Kuliniewicz wrote:

> I'd say it should only autorate in response to an explicit action by the
> user.  If the user skips, decrease the rating.  If the user starts
> playing a particular song, increase the rating.  But when the algorithm
> decides what to play next, leave the ratings alone.
>
That would mean that for me (play whole library with shuffle, press next
when I don't like a song) the algorithm would only rate down and I would
end up with 2000 songs rated as 0.
So that idea doesn't sound very good to me.

Benjamin