[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
Oh, so the ratings do not fold into the "scores" which weight how often songs are played? If that is the case then please disregard this bug. But, in any case, if I were to redo the tooltips for the stars, perhaps: 1 - tolerable 2 - okay 3 - good 4 - great 5 - favorite (which, again, assumes tha

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Ash
I think the scores do come into play in some of the smart playlists or dynamic playlists, but I'm not sure how. I do think I've heard that manual ratings are given more priority than the score that's calculated based on how often you play it. So is your idea then, that the impact of star ratings

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
It's actually more minor than that. My point is just that if the ratings are used as part of an algorithm to determine scores (1 == less likely ; 5 == more likely), and if also 1 is unlikely to be chosen due to "awful" songs probably not being kept in the owner's collection, then the algorithm is

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Ash
Now I can see where you're coming from. Since the specific words chosen are hard to quantify well since they're subjective, you're going to need to provide exactly what you're expecting. And since there are descriptions of the half star values too, you'll need to let me know what you want for tho

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-06-13 Thread Harald Sitter
As member of the upstream team I can tell you, that we had reasons to do the one star = awful thing. Most important is: also single users might not delete bad files as they might want to have complete albums for statistics etc. Also user's preference for certain music might change after some time,

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-06-13 Thread Harald Sitter
As member of the upstream team I can tell you, that we had reasons to do the one star = awful thing. Most important is: also single users might not delete bad files as they might want to have complete albums for statistics etc. Also user's preference for certain music might change after some time,

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
Oh, so the ratings do not fold into the "scores" which weight how often songs are played? If that is the case then please disregard this bug. But, in any case, if I were to redo the tooltips for the stars, perhaps: 1 - tolerable 2 - okay 3 - good 4 - great 5 - favorite (which, again, assumes tha

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Ash
I think the scores do come into play in some of the smart playlists or dynamic playlists, but I'm not sure how. I do think I've heard that manual ratings are given more priority than the score that's calculated based on how often you play it. So is your idea then, that the impact of star ratings

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
It's actually more minor than that. My point is just that if the ratings are used as part of an algorithm to determine scores (1 == less likely ; 5 == more likely), and if also 1 is unlikely to be chosen due to "awful" songs probably not being kept in the owner's collection, then the algorithm is

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Ash
Now I can see where you're coming from. Since the specific words chosen are hard to quantify well since they're subjective, you're going to need to provide exactly what you're expecting. And since there are descriptions of the half star values too, you'll need to let me know what you want for tho

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
Oh, so the ratings do not fold into the "scores" which weight how often songs are played? If that is the case then please disregard this bug. But, in any case, if I were to redo the tooltips for the stars, perhaps: 1 - tolerable 2 - okay 3 - good 4 - great 5 - favorite (which, again, assumes tha

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Ash
I think the scores do come into play in some of the smart playlists or dynamic playlists, but I'm not sure how. I do think I've heard that manual ratings are given more priority than the score that's calculated based on how often you play it. So is your idea then, that the impact of star ratings

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
It's actually more minor than that. My point is just that if the ratings are used as part of an algorithm to determine scores (1 == less likely ; 5 == more likely), and if also 1 is unlikely to be chosen due to "awful" songs probably not being kept in the owner's collection, then the algorithm is

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Ash
Now I can see where you're coming from. Since the specific words chosen are hard to quantify well since they're subjective, you're going to need to provide exactly what you're expecting. And since there are descriptions of the half star values too, you'll need to let me know what you want for tho

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-06-13 Thread Harald Sitter
As member of the upstream team I can tell you, that we had reasons to do the one star = awful thing. Most important is: also single users might not delete bad files as they might want to have complete albums for statistics etc. Also user's preference for certain music might change after some time,

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-06-13 Thread Harald Sitter
As member of the upstream team I can tell you, that we had reasons to do the one star = awful thing. Most important is: also single users might not delete bad files as they might want to have complete albums for statistics etc. Also user's preference for certain music might change after some time,

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
Oh, so the ratings do not fold into the "scores" which weight how often songs are played? If that is the case then please disregard this bug. But, in any case, if I were to redo the tooltips for the stars, perhaps: 1 - tolerable 2 - okay 3 - good 4 - great 5 - favorite (which, again, assumes tha

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Ash
I think the scores do come into play in some of the smart playlists or dynamic playlists, but I'm not sure how. I do think I've heard that manual ratings are given more priority than the score that's calculated based on how often you play it. So is your idea then, that the impact of star ratings

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
It's actually more minor than that. My point is just that if the ratings are used as part of an algorithm to determine scores (1 == less likely ; 5 == more likely), and if also 1 is unlikely to be chosen due to "awful" songs probably not being kept in the owner's collection, then the algorithm is

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Ash
Now I can see where you're coming from. Since the specific words chosen are hard to quantify well since they're subjective, you're going to need to provide exactly what you're expecting. And since there are descriptions of the half star values too, you'll need to let me know what you want for tho

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-06-13 Thread Harald Sitter
As member of the upstream team I can tell you, that we had reasons to do the one star = awful thing. Most important is: also single users might not delete bad files as they might want to have complete albums for statistics etc. Also user's preference for certain music might change after some time,

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
Oh, so the ratings do not fold into the "scores" which weight how often songs are played? If that is the case then please disregard this bug. But, in any case, if I were to redo the tooltips for the stars, perhaps: 1 - tolerable 2 - okay 3 - good 4 - great 5 - favorite (which, again, assumes tha

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Ash
I think the scores do come into play in some of the smart playlists or dynamic playlists, but I'm not sure how. I do think I've heard that manual ratings are given more priority than the score that's calculated based on how often you play it. So is your idea then, that the impact of star ratings

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
It's actually more minor than that. My point is just that if the ratings are used as part of an algorithm to determine scores (1 == less likely ; 5 == more likely), and if also 1 is unlikely to be chosen due to "awful" songs probably not being kept in the owner's collection, then the algorithm is

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Ash
Now I can see where you're coming from. Since the specific words chosen are hard to quantify well since they're subjective, you're going to need to provide exactly what you're expecting. And since there are descriptions of the half star values too, you'll need to let me know what you want for tho

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-06-13 Thread Harald Sitter
As member of the upstream team I can tell you, that we had reasons to do the one star = awful thing. Most important is: also single users might not delete bad files as they might want to have complete albums for statistics etc. Also user's preference for certain music might change after some time,

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
Oh, so the ratings do not fold into the "scores" which weight how often songs are played? If that is the case then please disregard this bug. But, in any case, if I were to redo the tooltips for the stars, perhaps: 1 - tolerable 2 - okay 3 - good 4 - great 5 - favorite (which, again, assumes tha

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Ash
I think the scores do come into play in some of the smart playlists or dynamic playlists, but I'm not sure how. I do think I've heard that manual ratings are given more priority than the score that's calculated based on how often you play it. So is your idea then, that the impact of star ratings

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-04 Thread Reuben Firmin
It's actually more minor than that. My point is just that if the ratings are used as part of an algorithm to determine scores (1 == less likely ; 5 == more likely), and if also 1 is unlikely to be chosen due to "awful" songs probably not being kept in the owner's collection, then the algorithm is

[Bug 112489] Re: Ratings system in Amarok flawed / one star should be customizable

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Ash
Now I can see where you're coming from. Since the specific words chosen are hard to quantify well since they're subjective, you're going to need to provide exactly what you're expecting. And since there are descriptions of the half star values too, you'll need to let me know what you want for tho