During the SC7 startup the server is generating the invalid value error
shown below in the server log. I can't find where this value is set in
the Trackstat configuration pages. Should I be concerned?... The plugin
appears to be working.
[07:36:17.9842] Slim::Utils::Prefs::Base::set (145)
Hi,
I am trying to use the Trackstat plugin with the latest 7.01
nightly builds on Ubuntu 7.04.
When I select Trackstat and ask it to play something ( usually Albums
never played ) it all seems to work fine, with the SB3 ( and SB2 )
playing music perfectly. However once playing the SB interface
Hmmm, After a few albums have played the SB response returns to
normal. So maybe Trackstat does some heavy duty processing when first
invoked? My Squeezecentre runs on a Koolu so not the fastest device if
a lot of work is being done.
I'll explore some more to try and find out how long the
Does it only happens when playing album or artist based statistics
or does it also happen when you play one of the song based statistics
?
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this has been bugging me for awhile. When i use the remote to dial in an
artist, I can hold down the play button and i then have the option of
going into custom browse or trackstat. If i go into trackstat I have
all of the trackstat options but these options aren't connected back to
the artist
Phil Meyer;252515 Wrote:
YES! This works !?!
I'm guessing that the SavePlaylist plugin is enabled (it is a built-in
plugin that is enabled by default). This plugin registers the
play.hold action to call up the Save Playlist menu (try pressing and
holding the play button on the now
I just want to say that the time you have spent finding and reporting
bugs and giving me feedback on new features is greatly appreciated.
And likewise for you actually fixing bugs quickly and implementing my requests!
I could see the playlist handling of Dynamic Playlist to be moved into
the
When I click the Mix icon in a custom browse WebUI page (new default skin) to
start a random mix, I get a random mix, but the browse panel changes to say No
matching songs, albums or artists were found.
Phil
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I'm planning to tweak this so the default skin is supported, however at
the moment I have a hard time to find enough time/inspiration to do the
work. The last month I've only had time/inspiration to do some small
fixes in the plugins. So at the moment I can promise it will be fixed
to the SC7
Hi,
i have installed the Plugin TrackStat and the MusicInfo and
DynamicPlayList to rate my songs.
Everything works fine but the rating by pressing the numbers 1-10 on my
remote wont change the rating but let the player switch to the favorite
number 1-10 and play this one, can anyone help me?
Konlork;252378 Wrote:
Hi,
i have installed the Plugin TrackStat and the MusicInfo and
DynamicPlayList to rate my songs.
Everything works fine but the rating by pressing the numbers 1-10 on my
remote wont change the rating but let the player switch to the favorite
number 1-10 and play
auronthas;252389 Wrote:
You need to press and hold the number keys to rate a song, only numbers
1-5 are applicable, number 0 is to clear rating.
Hope this help.
This is what i'm doing, but the only reply from my device is Favorite
Nr.X does not exist.
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This is what i'm doing, but the only reply from my device is Favorite
Nr.X does not exist.
It is quite likely that you have another plugin (eg. my PlaylistMan plugin)
that has registered custom key controls on the now playing screen.
Due to what I consider a bug in the SqueezeCenter software,
Some questions:
1.
Are you in the Now Playing menu when you try to rate songs ? I'm
asking since the rating actions only works in the Now Playing menu
and in the Plugins/TrackStat menu.
2.
Does the TrackStat pages show up on the SlimServer home page in the web
interface and is it possible to
erland;252401 Wrote:
Some questions:
1.
Are you in the Now Playing menu when you try to rate songs ? I'm
asking since the rating actions only works in the Now Playing menu
and in the Plugins/TrackStat menu.
2.
Does the TrackStat pages show up on the SlimServer home page in the web
Phil Meyer;252398 Wrote:
This is what i'm doing, but the only reply from my device is Favorite
Nr.X does not exist.
It is quite likely that you have another plugin (eg. my PlaylistMan
plugin) that has registered custom key controls on the now playing
screen.
Due to what I consider a
Kon, if you are running 6.5 and only those three third party plugins it
should work without patching or custom.map.
By default TrackStat only applies rating to button 0-5, you can
optionally apply ratings with 0-9 but this has to be enabled in the
TrackStat settings page under Server
erland;252426 Wrote:
Kon, if you are running 6.5 and only those three third party plugins it
should work without patching or custom.map.
By default TrackStat only applies rating to button 0-5, you can
optionally apply ratings with 0-9 but this has to be enabled in the
TrackStat settings
erland;252480 Wrote:
Are you able to hold the number buttons to rate tracks if you browse to
a track in the Plugins/TrackStat menu with the SqueezeBox remote ?
YES! This works !?!
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YES! This works !?!
I'm guessing that the SavePlaylist plugin is enabled (it is a built-in plugin
that is enabled by default). This plugin registers the play.hold action to
call up the Save Playlist menu (try pressing and holding the play button on the
now playing screen to confirm this
auronthas;250522 Wrote:
Thanks.
Before I unzipped beta04 plugin, I deleted existing trackstat
directory. After installing, i restart my PC. Eventually, I updated my
SC with nightly build 20 Dec after few hours installing beta04, it still
show trackstat beta03.
indeed, I just updated
erland;250377 Wrote:
Have you restarted SqueezeCenter ?
If that doesn't help, try removing the old TrackStat directory and
then unzipping the new distribution, just to make sure no old files are
left.
If it shows beta03 it means it is still running the old version.
Thanks.
Before I
Look at the install.xml file in the TrackStat directory in a text
editor. Does it say beta03 or beta04 in the version element at the
bottom of the file ?
Are you sure you have installed it in the correct place ?
Are you sure SqueezeCenter has been restarted ?
You need to restart the
erland;250526 Wrote:
Look at the install.xml file in the TrackStat directory in a text
editor. Does it say beta03 or beta04 in the version element at the
bottom of the file ?
yes
version2.0.beta04/version
Are you sure you have installed it in the correct place ?
yes
djek;250554 Wrote:
yes
I stopped the service, had coffee and started it again
BUT then:
I removed the plugin CustomBrowse and TrackStat folders
stopped and started slimserver
unpacked the plugin folders again
stopped and started slimserver
and now the plugins are updated
Thanks
This doesn't feel good, are you guys using a standard installation
package of SqueezeCenter, like a .deb or .rpm or the Windows
installation ?
Or have you made the start scripts yourself ?
Is this on a standard PC or are you using some NAS hardware to run
SqueezeCenter ?
It feels like there is
erland;250583 Wrote:
This doesn't feel good, are you guys using a standard installation
package of SqueezeCenter, like a .deb or .rpm or the Windows
installation ?
deb
and I agree, I think I lost some stats
Or have you made the start scripts yourself ?
no
Is this on a standard
erland;250583 Wrote:
This doesn't feel good, are you guys using a standard installation
package of SqueezeCenter, like a .deb or .rpm or the Windows
installation ?
Windows
Or have you made the start scripts yourself ?
No
Is this on a standard PC or are you using some NAS hardware to run
Downloaded Trackstat 2.0 Beta04 plugin and SC nightly build (20
Dec)today. When I click to Trackstat, it still shows trackstat 2.0
Beta03 and the play count still clashes with song title.
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auronthas;250299 Wrote:
Downloaded Trackstat 2.0 Beta04 plugin and SC nightly build (20
Dec)today. When I click to Trackstat, it still shows trackstat 2.0
Beta03 and the play count still clashes with song title.
Have you restarted SqueezeCenter ?
If that doesn't help, try removing the old
I'm not sure the above mentioned three items will be updated when you
change the ratings, that's the part that is work in progress since the
API regarding this has been changed in 7.0.
Ah. Okay, thanks for the info.
Phil
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I'd like to display the Trackstat star rating on the screen saver display.
Looking at the tags I currently have to choose from, I can see:
TRACKSTAT_RATING_DYNAMIC
TRACKSTAT_RATING_NUMBER
TRACKSTAT_RATING_STATIC
TRACKSTATRATINGNUMBER
I believe I have tried all of
Hi Phil,
TRACKSTATRATINGSTATIC shows a number of stars or the equivalent number
of characters you've configured. I'm running the latest SS7 and
tracktat plugin. Didn't try any others...
TRACKSTATRATINGDYNAMIC is available too. Seems the underscores have
been removed in SS7.
kind regards,
Markus
The ones that currently work are:
TRACKSTATRATINGNUMBER
TRACKSTATRATINGDYNAMIC
TRACKSTATRATINGSTATIC
The other are work in progress and might disappear. I had forgot about
this, so thanks for noticing.
I'm not sure the above mentioned three items will be updated when you
change the ratings,
This works in my own setup, but if you have another plugin that also
register buttons in the playlist mode (Now Playing) the first one
will win and the second registration will be ignored.
My own plugin (PlaylistMan) tries to register add.hold in the now playing mode.
In the past, TrackStat has
Phil Meyer;244338 Wrote:
This is not good, and is a seriously lacking area of plugin support
still missing in SC 7.0. I know we've discussed it in the past in the
developers forum. We need a more intelligent way of programatically
assigning functions to keys. I'll see if I can find the
I am running TrackStat-2.0.beta03.
I am finding that on the PlayerUI Now Playing screen, I can't press number keys
to set a rating any longer. Eg. press-and-hold 5 will try to play favorite #5,
not set a rating of 5* on the selected track.
Also, in TrackStat Interface settings, I have set Web
Still no luck. All non built-in file formats have been disabled, and
Slimserver is set to no limit for FLAC replay. The track halting during
transitions still occurs.
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Yannzola;243300 Wrote:
Still no luck. All non built-in file formats have been disabled, and
Slimserver is set to no limit for FLAC replay. The track halting during
transitions still occurs.
Can you monitor the CPU usage and see if it increases to around 100%
during track changes ?
Also try
erland;242816 Wrote:
Some questions:
1. Does the problem only occur when you have run a dynamic playlist for
a while (after a few hours), or does it appear directly ?
2. It looks like the playlist you are currently using uses the Ignore
songs played recently playlist parameter. Does
There is a minor problem in Trackstat 2.0 beta03 02/01 that play count
text clashes/overlap with song title shown in the picture below. Or is
anyway to make the song title boundary shorter?
+---+
|Filename: trackstat play
erland;242823 Wrote:
It would be interesting if you could verify if the problem also occurs
when you use the Random Mix plugin.
Is there any way you could check the network performance ? I think
there is some network health page/menu somewhere on SlimServer where
this is shown.
No
Erland,
THis is the log I get when streaming from work. No errors noticed when
the FLACS are converted and streamed as MP3's. I have no idea if this
is helpful or not :)
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|Filename: log.zip
Thanks for reporting, it will be fixed in next version.
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erland;243074 Wrote:
I'm guessing that it is the same SlimServer that is used in both these
cases ?
Yes same instance of Slimserver running on the same machine.
erland;243074 Wrote:
If SlimServer is configured to transcode FLAC to MP3 when you are
streaming for work it would
The SQL statement that retrieves new tracks seems to take about 6.5
seconds when you are seeing the problem but when you stream from work
and isn't seeing the problem they just take 0.7 seconds.
I'm guessing that it is the same SlimServer that is used in both these
cases ?
If it is there has
erland;242559 Wrote:
It would be great if you could try to disable Dynamic Transitions and
fade in/out temporarily to see if it solves the problem.
Do you have the same problem if you play a random playlist with Random
Mix plugin ?
The reason you are seeing the problem with FLAC's but
Yannzola;242680 Wrote:
Is there anything else I can do to help solve this? Any particular log
data to pull?
Try to setup performance logging according to the first posts in this
thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28118
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erland;242701 Wrote:
Try to setup performance logging according to the first posts in this
thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28118
Done.
I've attached a snippet produced around the time of an error
anything of value?
I'm not sure exactly how to interpret this log, but I think it means
that Dynamic Playlist uses about 6 seconds to retrieve the next track.
In my own setup this isn't a problem, because the SqueezeBox3 buffers
about 30 seconds if I remember correctly. However, if this is combined
with a slow
It would be interesting if you could verify if the problem also occurs
when you use the Random Mix plugin.
Is there any way you could check the network performance ? I think
there is some network health page/menu somewhere on SlimServer where
this is shown.
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Yannzola;242309 Wrote:
My issue with tracks rebuffering and halting during transitions has
returned, alas. This time, I managed to capture a few of the errors in
my log files. Any ideas on what the problem may be?
Trackstat v1.40
I don't think these messages are related to TrackStat. They
erland;242314 Wrote:
Just to remember, how does it behave. Does it start to play the next
track for a few seconds and then stops the music for a while and then
starts it again ?
Correct. The stopping and starting occurs around track transitions...
and sometimes brings up the re-buffering
Yannzola;242381 Wrote:
The problem mostly (if not always) when playing FLACs (vs MP3's).
Playlists are fine the problem seems to occur only when dynamic
playlists are re-populated with new tracks.
Note: I have fade in / fade out set to 10 seconds. The issue usually
occurs within this
My issue with tracks rebuffering and halting during transitions has
returned, alas. This time, I managed to capture a few of the errors in
my log files. Any ideas on what the problem may be?
Trackstat v1.40
+---+
|Filename:
I was trying to find out how many of my tracks I have rated, so I ran:
- Begin Query 1 -
SELECT COUNT(*), rating FROM slimserver.track_statistics GROUP BY rating
COUNT(*) rating
12259 NULL
1420
981 40
7300 60
28714 80
1613 100
- End Query 1 -
I
ZeddZull;238708 Wrote:
How do I turn on the TrackStat debugging parameter? I don't see it on
the web page.
That part of the file looks fine, so I suspect maybe the wrong file is
read for some reason.
The debug parameter is called DEBUG LOGGING and is found in Server
Settings/Plugins at the
How do I turn on the TrackStat debugging parameter? I don't see it on
the web page.
The following is an extract of the file:
Code:
track
Restarting slimserver seems to have fixed the problem. As best as I can
tell, for some reason slimserver was caching the corrupted file and
changing the name or even deleting the file didn't seem to make any
difference. I restarted slimserver and resubmitted the name of the
fixed file and it
I am trying to restore my trackstat ratings from a backup file. I have
deleted all of the records (using the Plugins page). When I try to
restore, no records are created. I have checked to make sure that the
URL is the same between the backup file and the database. Any
suggestions on how I
ZeddZull;238611 Wrote:
I am trying to restore my trackstat ratings from a backup file. I have
deleted all of the records (using the Plugins page). When I try to
restore, no records are created. I have checked to make sure that the
URL is the same between the backup file and the database.
Yes that rogue plugin.pm was causing the problem. Took it out and all
now fine
Many thanks for your prompt help
Brian
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I had tried rebooting the pc as well as just stopping and starting
slimserver.
Subroutine defaultMap redefined at C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server/Plugins/Plugin.pm line 177.
Subroutine getDisplayName redefined at C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server/Plugins/Plugin.pm line 189.
Subroutine
I think there is something wrong with your installation, there is a
directory mentioned in the logs:
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server/Plugins/
This directory should only contain sub directories, one sub directory
for each installed plugin. When looking in the log you provided, it
seams like
Hi
I've just installed the trackstat plugin but get nothing showing under
the server settings/plugins menu
Any help gratefully received
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Have you restarted SlimServer after the installation ?
If you have and it still doesn't show up, could you restart SlimServer
and then directly afterwards goto: http://localhost:9000/log.txt
And see if you can see any errors in the log.
When installing you should unzip the zip file directly in
Philip Meyer;224368 Wrote:
I was browsing through trackstat menus this evening. I tried
Artists/Never Played Artists. I noticed that every time I went to this
menu, I got a list of 50 random never played artists, except the first
artist was always the same artist (not random).
I had a quick
Do you think it would be better if the list was totally random among
the never played artists, independent of their average rating ?
I only rate songs when I play them, so I was thinking that all never played
tracks wouldn't have ratings. However, I can see that I have actually rated
one song
Phil Meyer;224940 Wrote:
Yes, I think in this instance never played artists/albums/songs should
be totally random, independant of rating.
I'll add it to the wish list.
Phil Meyer;224940 Wrote:
Artists / Not rated seems to order by playcount and then rating. I
notice that I have artists
Strange, I get a random list where also the first artist is changed.
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Custom Scan, Custom Skip,
Hi,
I've just instlled the TrackStat plugin 1.39 plus the MusicInfoSCR, and
DynamicPlayList-1.13 on my new QNAP TS-109.
Two questions:
Must I also enable mySQL to get the plugins running?
How do I interface with the plugins?
Thank's in advance for any help,
/sand
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I don't know anything about the QNAP, but after the installation the
plugins are visible as follows:
- TrackStat: A TrackStat menu under Plugins both in web interface
and on SqueezeBox interface.
- Dynamic Playlists: A Dynamic Playlists menu under Plugins both in
web interface and on SqueezeBox
Thank you Erland for the detailed reply!
I think I just have to restart Slimserver and then it should work.. but
I can't find the restart command, though.. there must be a wiki or
something with the basics for controlling Slimserver from the
commandline..?
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Hi Erland
Those votes in the opposite direction sound wise and I do see the
problem. I do think an external app to do this would be useful to a
lot of people though.
I do my backup to a dir outside slim so that should be ok then, thanks
for clarifying.
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bossanova808;217834 Wrote:
I use an awful lot of MP3 tagging utilities for avrious things and to be
honest I've never once worried about losing my collection (which, of
course, is backed up regularly).
If there's any opportunity to vote for this to convince you otherwise,
I vote
This is a tough one. I skip some songs I like because I'm not in the
mood or I have company, I skip others because they suck. Ideally I'd
like a skip with extreme prejudice option. (I know, hold down the 2
button first!)
I think for me - if I skip it (ever): decrement. It's simpler than
guessing
Cruzan;218010 Wrote:
This is a tough one. I skip some songs I like because I'm not in the
mood or I have company, I skip others because they suck. Ideally I'd
like a skip with extreme prejudice option. (I know, hold down the 2
button first!)
I think for me - if I skip it (ever):
Erland, I unfortunately have organized my music in the root directory of
drive G:\
Now I want to move all folders to a subdirectory G:\Music. What is the
new synthax in the trackstat xml-file? Here's an existing example:
Capricorn;217741 Wrote:
Erland, I unfortunately have organized my music in the root directory of
drive G:\
Now I want to move all folders to a subdirectory G:\Music. What is the
new synthax in the trackstat xml-file? Here's an existing example:
Question on Trackstat?
I am using the rating auto adjust feature - and have it set to decrease
if less than 30% of a song is played. But it seems like many of the
times I skip early in the song, it doesn't decrement. Is there some
logic to that or is it simply that I am skipping before
It increases/decreases a rating with 1 on a scale between 1-100. The
stars visible in the user interface is only shown with a scale of 1-5
or 1-10. This means that a rating needs to be decreased up to 20
times(if 1-5 scale) or 10 times(if 1-10 scale) until it is shown as a
star less/more in the
Hi Erland,
Actually, it seems like it has to play 30 seconds in order to
decrement. Here is less than 30 seconds:
TrackStat: Stopping timing
file:///E:/My%20Music/lame/Master/%20Charlie%20Haden/Nocturne/Charlie%20Haden-Nocturne-03-Nocturnal.mp3
TrackStat: Total elapsed time in seconds:
markmun;217796 Wrote:
Actually, it seems like it has to play 30 seconds in order to decrement.
Here is less than 30 seconds:
The 30 seconds is the Minimum song length to count setting in the
TrackStat section of Server Settings/Plugins.
This settings make sure the play counts aren't
I agree that is shouldn't be decreased unless you actually start
listening to the song...probably 5 seconds sounds good to me. That way
if you are scanning through a list for a particular song, the songs you
skip won't be penalized.
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Is it not possible to save the rating to, say, an ID3 tag, or an APE
tag, as a custom field?
I'm sure this has been considered but I think iTunes saves it as a
tag...why not Trackstat? This way it follows the music wherever it
goes.
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Ahma Trackstat2IDTag convertera nice idea. Isn't that
possible, Erland?
By the way, thank you for your response yesterday. I'm trying to tag my
files first by using Musicbrainz, but it's a really annoying procedure.
Although more than 90% of my songs have been ripped from the original
CD
It would be possible to write the ratings to the music files, for
ratings there already is a standard ID3 tag called POPM available. But
since TrackStat also stores play counts and last played time it would
probably make sense to store it in a custom tag.
The reason I haven't done this yet is
I use an awful lot of MP3 tagging utilities for avrious things and to be
honest I've never once worried about losing my collection (which, of
course, is backed up regularly).
If there's any opportunity to vote for this to convince you otherwise,
I vote 'yes'.
That said, I never really move my
When I do a trackstat - recently added - last added albums - click
album . The tracks are not in tracknumber order - is there a way to get
it to display them this way? Or reorder after adding to playlist?
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nik8;209998 Wrote:
When I do a trackstat - recently added - last added albums - click
album . The tracks are not in tracknumber order - is there a way to get
it to display them this way? Or reorder after adding to playlist?At the
moment you can't change the track order in the TrackStat
thanks for you super prompt reply!
I might see if you can do it somehow in the SS playlist...
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Cruzan;209625 Wrote:
- Sync skip information with iTunes. I listen in my car on my iPod mini
using smart playlists that look at last played date, playcounts, ratings
and skips. I'd love to have 2-way skip sync. Also, it would be great if
you applied auto-rate logic to imported skip
Thanks Erland,
That does explain it - and yes I can use MusicIP to import all my stats
in order to refresh the SS library ones.
N
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Hey - I love trackstat. These enhancements would make it better for my
use:
- Sync skip information with iTunes. I listen in my car on my iPod mini
using smart playlists that look at last played date, playcounts, ratings
and skips. I'd love to have 2-way skip sync. Also, it would be great if
you
thanks for all of your help erland. i'll vote for the bug.
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erland;207257 Wrote:
I would really appreciate if you could help me verify this. The attached
zip contains a patch. Could overwrite TrackStat/Plugin.pm and
TrackStat/MusicMagic/Export.pm in your TrackStat 1.38.1 installation
with those included in the attached zip, verify if it works and
Hi
If I have played and rated a track with TrackStat, and then rename the
track, what happens to the trackstat info. does the database
automatically sync with this 'new' track.
i also use MusicIP which would have the played and rating detail saved
with the track.
I tried to find out the answer
nik8;209511 Wrote:
If I have played and rated a track with TrackStat, and then rename the
track, what happens to the trackstat info. does the database
automatically sync with this 'new' track.
It will sync with the new name if your music is tagged with musicbrainz
id's. If it isn't, the
I've never been fond of the way it counts unrated tracks as 3*. It means that
the majority of my albums are rated 3*.
I generally use the 1-5 scale as a goodness rating (so a 1* means not bad
rather than terrible). If I don't like songs, I don't rip them. So a 3*
doesn't mean average in my
1.
In custom browse, I added a Library Statistics menu. I see that in Rating
Statistics, I have Rated Songs and Rated Songs (Trackstat). Both report
the same number, but the numbers are wrong - I think it is counting ratings 1-4
but not the 5* rated songs.
2.
When I browse TrackStat menus in
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