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[insaint]

I'm listening through my music collection more or less systematically instead of just pulling up a playlist with the same songs I've always listened to. I'm discovering some new-to-me songs that I really like and some that I really don't. Par for the course, really. I'm assigning a rating to each one

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[zanate]

Interesting system.. tried rating songs, ended up never used the ratings. :P (I mainly wanted to be able to pull out the favourites.) Besides, while I like the approach for "big massive mix o' songs" to weed out the disliked ones, I have two other constraints:

- I'm a huge "album" listener. I rarely put anything on pure random. The idea of turfing songs, even ones I actively dislike, and break up an album is anethema to me.
- Maybe quingawaga likes it more than I do. :)

[insaint]

The idea of turfing songs, even ones I actively dislike, and break up an album is anethema to me.

That is exactly the mentality I'm trying to break. :)

I'm looking to build up a massive playlist (essentially my entire collection) that I can just put on random or pull subsets of and not have any one song be jarring enough to break me out of whatever I'm doing while listening to it -- usually driving or coding. I pretty much never listen to music anymore outside of work or the car.

Much as I like keeping albums together, I find that the albums I really like I've listened to enough to have my favourites and really dislike the songs that didn't make that list. It is incredibly rare for me to like a whole album.

[zanate]

As it is for me, and yet, that's the unit I choose to work with. :)

I'm a big fan of the album. When a band does an album well, it's a thing of beauty that no collection of four-minute songs on their own can deliver.

[curgoth]

I use a smart playlist to give priority to higher rated songs - the lower rated it is, the longer it will wait before it shows up on the playlist again. 5 star songs can play every day, 1 star songs only play once every 6 months, and songs with no stars won't appear, unless they're new (to catch stuff I haven't rated yet).

[insaint]

Yeah, me neither. Hence the learning. :)

[curgoth]

That's the sort of thing I use my zero-star rating for. My Christmas stuff, for example, has zero stars, so my normal rating-based playlist ignores it, but I have a playlist for December when I want to listen to it.

[insaint]

I will probably end up with a two-step process. Step one will get rid of music I honestly despise. Step two will adjust the ratings so I can do something similar to the setup you have.

[pundigrion]

Brilliant!