sbutton Wrote: > I have around, I dunno, 6 thousand songs at last count mosty from > ripping my CD collection, and I'd like to be able to play higher rated > songs some of the time. I have a similarly sized library and had the same problem - here's how I do it in SlimServer 6.5.
I start at the position that all songs are in my collection for a reason - I must have liked them at some point. So I assume that unrated songs have a 3 star (60%) rating unless actually rated differently. I also assume that a rating of one star means "never play on random". It doesn't actually mean I hate the track - I just use it as shorthand to flag songs I don't want on random which is the only time that ratings actually have any impact for me. Actually I also have some genres that I always exclude from random playback (audiobooks, classical etc.) I use the SQL PlayList plugin to create a random playlist that is biased in favour of higher rated songs and treats unrated songs as being mid-rated. I use the iTunes Update plugin to record my ratings and send them back to iTunes. If you don't use iTunes then you could look at the TrackStat plugin. And when I get something on random that I love/hate then I rate it to fine tune feedback into the process. I also combine this with forcing myself to listen to unplayed tracks on random when I'm working so that I eventually will hit my entire collection and weed out the junk I don't want to hear on random again. Over time I'm gradually fine tuning my ratings so that stuff I really like gets a higher rating and comes around more often. I've also considered that any track that I play to completion (without manually rating it) should get an average rating of 3 stars but I've not got as far as deciding if that's a good idea. -- barcar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ barcar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25790 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
