Fwd: [Rhythmbox-devel] Another Play Counter?

["David Berg" <drberg1000 gmail com>]

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From: David Berg <drberg1000 gmail com>
Date: Mar 7, 2006 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Another Play Counter?
To: Joel Duggan <joelduggan gmail com>


On 3/7/06, Joel Duggan <joelduggan gmail com> wrote:
> Current behaviour of "play count" would cause extra "aborts".  It only
> increments when the song reaches 100%.  This means the "start count"
> would increment when the song starts and then "play count" would not
> be incremented when the app closes.

I realized this shortly after posting the message.  "abort count" by
its self would have to account for too many reasons for aborting.  But
combined with play count to get a ratio the statistic would be useful
without having to consider if the abortions were due to a crash or
other reason.

If its aborted every time the ratio would be high.  But if its a song
that you play alot and the system crashes once, it won't affect the
ratio much.  One might have to consider how often songs are played and
come up with their own thresholds but you typically have to do that
anyway.

Since none of the counters throw any flags anyway, it would only be
looked at by someone who knows what they want anyway.


--Dave


>
> Joel D.
>
> On 3/7/06, Alan <alan ufies org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:27:44PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> > > A useful statistic for me to know would be how many times play on a
> > > song was aborted.  Just as the Play Count variable helps to point out
> > > the most popular songs, an Abort Count could mark songs that should
> > > just be archived or deleted to free space for songs that might be
> > > played more.
> > >
> > > Implementing should be straight forward.  Add a counter that is
> > > incremented when a song starts then subtract "Play Count" from "Start
> > > Count" to get "Abort Count".
> >
> > Depending on how the play counter works already, this might be almost
> > already built in for you.  If the play counter only increments after a
> > song gets to 100% (or 80 or 90%) then aborted plays won't increment
> > song counts and skew statistics.
> >
> > If the play counter doesn't already work this way, then I think this
> > would be a useful enhancement to add in.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
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