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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel >
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