Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Enchancement Idea ccn ratings

[Joe Webster <joe cawfeemilk com>]

that's a good idea - I'll give it a try.

I rather NOT rate the songs, since if it has no rating I know that I 
need to rate it.

I rate songs like so:
   1. I hate it, I never want to hear it again
   2. Bearable
   3. Average, I won't skip to the next if it comes on
   4. Good, sometimes I rock out to it
   5. Awesome, I wish it was in Guitar Hero

So, as you can see from my chart, if I rate them all 3 -- I won't know 
if I have rated it already or not.

I guess I can use 2 for what you use your 3, thus replacing my 2 with 
NULL. :)

However, all of this can be avoided if we get this option :)

In closing I would like to say that I'm an OLD SCHOOL winamp fan, then I 
moved to xmms/beep, and recently to Rhythmbox. I tried Winamp the other 
day, and I hated it -- I couldn't find what I wanted.

Rhythmbox, you got moxy (in your name, it's there, look)!

Thanks for all the dev's work!

Peter wrote:
> 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