What's your preferred track rating system: hearts, stars or halve stars?

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What's your preferred track rating system: heart/broken heart, stars or halve stars?  

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  1. 1. What's your preferred track rating system: heart/broken heart, stars or halve stars?

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    • 5 star rating (only full stars allowed)
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Grand Master

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Hi all,

 

What's your preferred rating system in audio players?

 

I'm asking this question because I will start implementing a rating system in my audio player Dopamine (see this thread).

You're allowed to motivate your choice. I'm especially interested in knowing why one uses the halve star rating: how do you organize your collection with halve stars?

 

Thank you!

Grand Master

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well i don't do it much, but if i did (or when i did)  i would prefer rating system out of 10...   so if you are using 5 stars, then halves should be allowed.

actually, now that i think about it more, 5 stars is fine,   i would mostly only rank the songs i most like, and the out of ten system would be more suitable for movies.

 

 

 

anything but the hearts :p

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Don't personally use ratings myself (if I didn't like it I'd just delete it :D)  but if I were to use it, I'd probably go 1-5 with halves allowed, just to save space in the interface versus a row of 10 of them.   And yea, no hearts please... Dopamine's got a pretty slick interface, don't go cutesifying it up now with a kiddy look.

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I like the thumbs up and thumbs down of Play Music, it's simple and it works well. Stars are too precise for me, sometimes I feel like a song is 5 stars, and a few days later in another mood it could be 3 stars. With thumbs, it'd just be a thumbs up. When I'm given the option of using stars, I always just give four or five stars anyway, and find it hard to differentiate between them.

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I like the thumbs up and thumbs down of Play Music, it's simple and it works well. Stars are too precise for me, sometimes I feel like a song is 5 stars, and a few days later in another mood it could be 3 stars. With thumbs, it'd just be a thumbs up. When I'm given the option of using stars, I always just give four or five stars anyway, and find it hard to differentiate between them.

 

Thanks for your feedback. I'll probably just give you an option to switch between both rating systems. I'm also more of a like/don't like guy. But I understand other people need more precision.

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The one I've grown the most used to is a star rating system, usually out of 5. No halves.

 

What would be neat is a negative rating system and a song flagged with a negative rating would never be played again until its status is changed. I've never seen a player do that before.

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The one I've grown the most used to is a star rating system, usually out of 5. No halves.

 

What would be neat is a negative rating system and a song flagged with a negative rating would never be played again until its status is changed. I've never seen a player do that before.

 

I was thinking about something along the lines of this. Not with a negative rating, but more giving a weight to a song in a shuffled playlist, depending on its rating. Meaning: a song with a lower rating would have less chances of being played than a song with a high rating.

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Not too fussed between hearts and stars. Maybe some other graphical representation more in line with the overall look of the app. Bars or something? Dunno.

Also not sure how useful half ratings would be, but that may be because over the years, I have never retained the ratings I have given songs. Every time I've reinstalled my OS, I've always lost that info :(

Half ratings would basically turn marks out of five into marks out of 10, right? So I suppose that could be good. And obviously, you can still just use full marks if that is more your thing.

Thumbs up/down or full/broken hearts seem a bit too restrictive. I mean, if it's so bad that it gets a thumbs down or a broken heart, you should probably get rid of it :p

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