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

[Mats Taraldsvik <mats taraldsvik broadpark no>]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:25 -0700, John Daiker 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.

Another point against this would perhaps be when to upload playcounts to
last.fm?

> 
> John
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Regards,
Mats