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

["Steven Brown" <steven w j brown gmail com>]

I like the double float idea...  Then you could just accumulate the percentage of a song played.  Play through half a song, add 0.5 to the playcount.  Play through 10%, add 0.1.  90%?  0.9.

0.5 + 0.1 + 0.9 = 1.5 -> rounds to 2 times.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Daiker <daikerjohn gmail com> wrote:

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

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