Baldy68
When I rate my songs, I often find songs that are between 3 or 4 or between 4 and 5 stars. A wish would be to have half stars also! :-D
Posted 2 days ago @ 1:41 pm
PhantomDeejay
While I understand your wish and your background, I believe that you should just adapt to use what is there.
And I explain:
Right now you can rate songs on a "5 different values system".
Including "halves" makes it a "10 different values" system. You have 10 different values to pick.
But the again a song "could be" 7,5 starts (out of 10) or 4,25 stars (out of 5).
So let's make it to have 20 possible values!
Then again, why stop there ? A song could be 18.5 stars out of 20 (equivalent to 4.625 stars out of 5).
Make it accept 40 values ? Make it accept any "real" number ?
What I'm trying to say is that there has to be a limit on how many different ratings you can have.
Generally speaking 5 is a good simple limit for most cases.
Yes, there might be an odd song here and there that fits somewhere "in between" those values, but just make it a persistence choice to either always upgrade or downgrade the song in those cases.
Personally if a song "falls somewhere in between" some values, I always upgrade it to the higher value.
So if a song is "4.125 or 4.25 or 4.5 or 4.75 e.t.c." stars, I always set it to 5 stars.
And I explain:
Right now you can rate songs on a "5 different values system".
Including "halves" makes it a "10 different values" system. You have 10 different values to pick.
But the again a song "could be" 7,5 starts (out of 10) or 4,25 stars (out of 5).
So let's make it to have 20 possible values!
Then again, why stop there ? A song could be 18.5 stars out of 20 (equivalent to 4.625 stars out of 5).
Make it accept 40 values ? Make it accept any "real" number ?
What I'm trying to say is that there has to be a limit on how many different ratings you can have.
Generally speaking 5 is a good simple limit for most cases.
Yes, there might be an odd song here and there that fits somewhere "in between" those values, but just make it a persistence choice to either always upgrade or downgrade the song in those cases.
Personally if a song "falls somewhere in between" some values, I always upgrade it to the higher value.
So if a song is "4.125 or 4.25 or 4.5 or 4.75 e.t.c." stars, I always set it to 5 stars.
Posted 2 days ago @ 6:20 am
groovindj
Actually I would that the current system allows SIX ratings, because you have the option of not assigning any stars at all, so 0-5 = 6.
If I rate my tracks, I usually just assign five to the very best, and don't bother with anything in between.
If I rate my tracks, I usually just assign five to the very best, and don't bother with anything in between.
Posted yesterday @ 9:23 am
DJ VinylTouch
Track coloring using the Tag Editor can probably help with these "in between rating" comparisons (because I agree with @PhantomDeejay and @groovindj - why stop there, you can divide infinitely as needed) - the color scale is much more granular (although at some point it becomes very difficult to distinguish two very close colors).
Posted yesterday @ 12:25 pm