On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:25 -0700, John Daiker 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.
Another point against this would perhaps be when to upload playcounts to last.fm? > > John > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel Regards, Mats _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
