Bug 138285

Summary: Scores vs Ratings... thoughts on an elegant solution.
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Piotr Pełzowski <pelzowski>
Component: generalAssignee: Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.4.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Piotr Pełzowski 2006-12-03 11:33:25 UTC 
Version:           1.4.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

This desription will depend on amarok users posts from Amarok-forum:

"Basically I like to be able to rate my own tracks... However I am only likely to do that to songs that I really like or don't like... (...) Drop the 1-100 score (retain it as a tooltip)  and have all (5 star) ratings automatically generated by default.... The stars would be say green in colour.
If I rate a track manually the star color should change to Yellow and the computer will stop rating this track. (There would be a right click menu item that would say "let the computer rate this track" on tracks that you have manually set. Clicking this menu item would turn the stars back to green and the computer would keep rating them."

"Rather than choosing a different color for User/computer ratings, I'd prefer having the computer 'virtual' rating half-transparent for example."

"I love this idea.  If you want to see it in action, check out Windows Media Player - that's how it works now."

For now all people on forum agree with statement that this idea is very good one. :) 
Is this possible to implement this?
Comment 1 Hans Chen 2006-12-03 17:07:29 UTC 
"Drop the 1-100 score (retain it as a tooltip)  and have all (5 star) ratings automatically generated by default"

If Amarok get rid of the score system, I think it it shouldn't be shown as a tooltip. Instead it could say "Rating: 4.52" (then there are ~4½ stars "filled").

Maybe a better solution to let the computer rate a certain track can be found.

I think this will reduce the confusion about score/rating. Thumbs up.
Comment 2 Danni Coy 2006-12-05 10:58:31 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 3 Seb Ruiz 2008-09-08 06:41:59 UTC 
In Amarok 2 we've decided that neither ratings nor scores are able to be disabled. Autogenerated scores aren't visible, they will be just be used for statistical generation of "favourite playlists" etc.

If you want automatically rated songs, you could create a script to do this.