Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Initial rating of new songs

[James Livingston <jrl ids org au>]

On 22/10/2005, at 10:08 PM, Nico Kaiser wrote:
>  I'd like to ask something about the initial rating of new songs in 
> the RhythmDB.
>  Rhythmbox rates new songs with "2.5", which is displayed as 3 stars 
> and after a restart with 2 starts (the values seem to be rounded when 
> written in the DB). Maybe the 2.5 is a relict of the auto-rating.
>
>  What about rating new songs with "0" to show they are "unrated"?

New songs used to be rated at 0, but that got changed to 2.5 when 
autorating was added.


>  With the current solution I don't have a chance to see songs I didn't 
> set a rating, and maybe one likes to create a smart playlist with 
> "Rated 4+ or unrated"...
>
>  So what do you think about setting the "2.5" value to "0" in 
> rhythmdb.c?

Personally, I think that having them being "unrated" rather than rated 
at 2.5 is more useful, especially since there is currently no way to 
create a playlist of unrated songs. If we change this back, we probably 
need to do the following:

* make sure that play orders that use ratings treat 0 the same as 2.5
* make it so that you can create playlists based on being unrated
* be able to unrate songs

What does everyone else think?

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James "Doc" Livingston <jrl ids org au>