Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] A little but usefull change: hit counter

[John Daiker <daikerjohn gmail com>]

Peter wrote:
> Arthens wrote:
>   
> > I'm going to suggest a little (I think, I hope) change to the way rhythmbox
> > counts how many times you have listened a song.
> >
> > At the moment (version 0.11.5 on Ubuntu 8.04) the counter is updated exactly
> > when the song ends.
> > IMHO this is really annoying... I just noticed that a lot of my favourites
> > songs have the counter at 0 or few more because often when the song it's
> > almost finished I switch to another one and the counter is not trigged.
> > Consider for example that a lot of songs have a long ending, like a speech
> > or several seconds of silence.
> >
> > My suggest is to move the trigger from the end to about 3/4.
> >     
>
> I like this idea, but I would suggest maybe at the 90% or 95% point
> rather than at 75% through the song.
>
> Peter
Having used Rhythmbox for quite some time (over 3 years now, I think), I 
would *definitely* support this change.  It is frustrating to see very 
popular songs with unfairly lower playcounts.

As a tangent to this idea, maybe the playcount could be stored as a 
double/float?  If you played a song 50%-75% of the way through, then the 
playcount could be incremented by .5  If you played a song over 75%, 
then the playcount could be incremented by 1.0.

Storing playcount as a double could be a lot of code, though... so this 
particular tangent could prove unfeasable.

John