pippin wrote:
> Usually, the main motivation is to use it with automatic playlist
> creation where you want to skip music that sucks.
> But I never actually understood why you need more than a three stage
> "sucks, it's OK, I love it" ranking, let-alone a 10-stage granularity
> but hey, that's just me.
>
If you have a larger library, a scale of four levels can make sense:
1-2: Sucks, I'm never going to listen to this again
3: Ok, this can be part of my random playlists
4: Love it
5: Excellent, can be used for critical listening when
enjoying/demonstrating your music system
To me personally it has never made any sense to differ between 1-2, if
it sucks I'm not going to listen to it, it doesn't mater if it really
sucks or just sucks. Life is to short to spend the time listening to
music that sucks.
4-5 stars can also be differed through genre tagging, but it's harder to
change a genre since you have to use a computer to do that while you can
just change the rating through iPeng while listening to the music.
Half-star ratings can make some sense to me when looking at amazon.com
or online services but it has never made any sense for me personally in
my own library, it would be interesting to hear from someone that
actually use half-star ratings how and why they use them.
Over time, I've seen that I might want to change some 4-star ratings to
3-stars because I no longer love a certain track/album because my music
taste has changed a bit, but except for that the ratings with a 4-scale
system is fairly stable over time.
However, having said all this, TrackStat also have support for automatic
ratings that update ratings automatically based on if you skip a track
or plays it through the end, if using the automatic rating functionality
it could maybe make sense to also show half star ratings.
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