Baldy68
When I rate my songs, I often find songs that are between 3 or 4 or between 4 and 5 stars. A wish would be to have half stars also! :-D
Posted 2 days ago @ 1:41 pm
PhantomDeejay
While I understand your wish and your background, I believe that you should just adapt to use what is there.
And I explain:
Right now you can rate songs on a "5 different values system".
Including "halves" makes it a "10 different values" system. You have 10 different values to pick.
But the again a song "could be" 7,5 starts (out of 10) or 4,25 stars (out of 5).
So let's make it to have 20 possible values!
Then again, why stop there ? A song could be 18.5 stars out of 20 (equivalent to 4.625 stars out of 5).
Make it accept 40 values ? Make it accept any "real" number ?
What I'm trying to say is that there has to be a limit on how many different ratings you can have.
Generally speaking 5 is a good simple limit for most cases.
Yes, there might be an odd song here and there that fits somewhere "in between" those values, but just make it a persistence choice to either always upgrade or downgrade the song in those cases.
Personally if a song "falls somewhere in between" some values, I always upgrade it to the higher value.
So if a song is "4.125 or 4.25 or 4.5 or 4.75 e.t.c." stars, I always set it to 5 stars.
And I explain:
Right now you can rate songs on a "5 different values system".
Including "halves" makes it a "10 different values" system. You have 10 different values to pick.
But the again a song "could be" 7,5 starts (out of 10) or 4,25 stars (out of 5).
So let's make it to have 20 possible values!
Then again, why stop there ? A song could be 18.5 stars out of 20 (equivalent to 4.625 stars out of 5).
Make it accept 40 values ? Make it accept any "real" number ?
What I'm trying to say is that there has to be a limit on how many different ratings you can have.
Generally speaking 5 is a good simple limit for most cases.
Yes, there might be an odd song here and there that fits somewhere "in between" those values, but just make it a persistence choice to either always upgrade or downgrade the song in those cases.
Personally if a song "falls somewhere in between" some values, I always upgrade it to the higher value.
So if a song is "4.125 or 4.25 or 4.5 or 4.75 e.t.c." stars, I always set it to 5 stars.
Posted yesterday @ 6:20 am
groovindj
Actually I would that the current system allows SIX ratings, because you have the option of not assigning any stars at all, so 0-5 = 6.
If I rate my tracks, I usually just assign five to the very best, and don't bother with anything in between.
If I rate my tracks, I usually just assign five to the very best, and don't bother with anything in between.
Posted 24 hours ago
DJ VinylTouch
Track coloring using the Tag Editor can probably help with these "in between rating" comparisons (because I agree with @PhantomDeejay and @groovindj - why stop there, you can divide infinitely as needed) - the color scale is much more granular (although at some point it becomes very difficult to distinguish two very close colors).
Posted 21 hours ago