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

["Alan Godoy" <alangsmello gmail com>]

I don't think using a float is intuitive. To play half a song twice
doesn't mean that the song was played one time.

But I liked the idea of using a threshold (which could be configured via gconf).

Regards,

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 13:56, Steven Brown <steven w j brown gmail com> wrote:
> 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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Alan Godoy Souza Mello
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