Rating songs

mdk010 · Post by **mdk010** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 1:13 pm

Just a thought,

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to rate the tracks. It could be similar to the way you rate songs in your itunes with a 5 star or 5 "ears" method. As the songs come through the queue it would be cool to rate them so an average rating could be made. This would allow users to see what the other users think of tracks (without writing a comment). It would be cool to see the most popular tracks and that type of data.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 2:26 pm

If we were going to rate songs, I'd rather go with a 1 - 10 system.

Post by **js3901** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 2:31 pm

personally, I think the track comments are good enough. but that's just IMHO. That said, I'm no code monkey, so I don't know how hard it would be to implement this. I think that just having the comments attached to the tracks is enough.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 3:28 pm

js3901 wrote:personally, I think the track comments are good enough. but that's just IMHO. That said, I'm no code monkey, so I don't know how hard it would be to implement this. I think that just having the comments attached to the tracks is enough.

I agree with you (How did that happen?

LMAO). With the diversity of our boards, I think a rating system would be a wash. Anyway, I don't want to hurt anybody's feeling. Do you? You have to remember, people take their likes and dis likes very personal. I know there are tracks I LOVE and not many other people can stand. You don't want to hurt anybody's feelings do you?

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 4:14 pm

I agree that a rating system would just serve to pigeonhole things too much. Let people decide for themselves what they like without a subjective rating system. The comments are good enough.

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 7:17 pm

I think it'd be neat to see maybe not a full rating system but a thumbs up/thumbs down kind of thing (y'know, like "This track has 10 thumbs ups and 3 thumbs down"). If there are tracks that seem to have an overwhelming thumbs down, perhaps they could be pulled from the rotation except when they're requested? Though I have no idea how hard that would be to code...

Would it really stop you from requesting something you wanted to hear if it had a low rating? I mean, that 'dreaded upcoming tracks' thread pretty clearly shows that people continue to request things other people have said they don't like.

momeja · Post by **momeja** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 8:04 pm

It would be nice to tie in rating with points. I like the ratings and would like to see more of them. If they were tied to points, that would increase the number of ratings.

Of course, it might increase it too much. Maybe 1 pt. per rating????

elizabethswann · Post by **elizabethswann** » Apr Thu 09, 2009 11:21 pm

Rating may be fun but seeing the comments on various songs are good enough for me. I always look at comments to see how people enjoy a song before I listen to it.

MetalRage · Post by **MetalRage** » Apr Fri 10, 2009 5:33 pm

i would like to rate tracks!

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Apr Fri 10, 2009 5:59 pm

I like the comments section better as it least allows you to write a brief reason why you like or dislike about that particular track.

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Apr Fri 10, 2009 11:09 pm

packwingfn wrote:I like the comments section better as it least allows you to write a brief reason why you like or dislike about that particular track.

Well, I still wanna see those. The comments are (usually >_>) really interesting. I just meant it might be nice to see a little thumb icon with the number of ups and downs in the list when you're selecting songs. I definitely don't want to lose the comments.

DaRkNeSs · Post by **DaRkNeSs** » Apr Mon 13, 2009 2:24 pm

I would like to have the thumb system that seems neat! Would at least like to see what people think! Neat idea!

DrumlineRules · Post by **DrumlineRules** » Apr Wed 22, 2009 11:43 pm

I definitely agree with adding the points for ratings system.

Also, I think the ratings system would work well for when there are no requested songs in the queue. Whenever the queue is empty, the system can automatically play some of the highest-rated songs, or even better, scan which users are listening to the station, and play songs based on THEIR ratings!

I know it's a lot to ask, but one can dream, right?

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Apr Tue 28, 2009 10:48 am

I really enjoy reading other folks' comments about the different tunes....That being said, a "thumbs up, thumbs down" type rating system would be a nice ADDED feature. It would be cool to see which tunes get the most ups versus the most downs...

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » Apr Tue 28, 2009 3:38 pm

I too like the idea of a simple rating system like thumbs up/down

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