Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Enchancement Idea ccn ratings

[Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk>]

Joe Webster wrote:
> I've been using the rating system in rhythmbox to help weed out songs I 
> don't like. I rate them 1 star as I hear songs I don't like, then later 
> I sort by rating, highlight all the 1-star songs, and move to trash. So 
> far it works well.
>
> I had a thought that it would be nice to have an option that would allow 
> me to Not play/skip songs with 1 star ratings. That way, once I mark it 
> with one star, I won't hear it again.

I do something similar:  I have a "good stuff" search playlist setup 
three or more stars.  I usually play a random selection from the "Good 
Stuff".

The catch is that when searching it seems that "unrated/zero stars" is 
treated as a zero rather than a null (unrated).  This means whenever I 
add new musics to my collection it initially his unrated/zero stars.

I have to manually give it a rating of say 3 stars to appear on my "good 
stuff list".  To make this as simple as possible, I have another 
"unrated" automatic playlist set to match zero stars.  I then select all 
of the results, and edit their rating to be three.

See also: Bug 345866 – Unrated versus zero / no stars
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345866

> I tried to search the mailing list to see if something like this had 
> already been submitted, but the search is offline.

I would like a rating-weigted random mode (where more stars means more 
likely to be played; but taking into account the total tracks for each 
rating), but that's getting complicated...

Peter