Anti-troll troll: How do we map metadata tag ratings that are on a 1-5 scale
(like every other app out there, iTunes included) to the 0/1 scale? Are we
going to split that one star up into fifths ?
RJ
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Albert Santoni <albe...@mixxx.org> wrote:
> Warning: Possible giant troll.
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I've always had a beef with 5-star ratings in music applications
> that's turned me off using them. I struggle with the meaning of each
> rating, and it's always been my hunch that just having a single star
> column that you can toggle (a la GMail) would be way more convenient.
>
> What's the difference between 3, 4 star, and 5 stars?
>
> If you rate songs as 1 star (out of 5), why do you even have that in
> your library? (In Mixxx, you can "Remove" them.)
>
> The mapping from a 5-star system to my imaginary 1-star system would be:
> 4, 5 stars --> starred
> 2, 3 stars --> unstarred
> 1 star --> remove
>
> Does anyone actually use all 5 stars?
>
> I don't want to rag on Tobias' great work on the star widget. :) If we
> were go to a 1-star system, we could definitely still use his widget
> without modification for our external track sources.
>
> Thanks, and hopefully someone can set me straight.
> Albert
>
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