by EinsteinX » Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:36 pm
Here is my current way of rating songs:
5 stars: maximum 15 songs
4 stars: maximum 135 songs
3 stars: maximum 300 songs
2 stars: maximum 1550 songs
And here's how I came up with this:
A while ago I noticed that my library's rating system did not make a lot of sense. In the past fifteen years that I build my modest collection of some seven thousand songs I had arbitrarily given stars to songs based on my feeling when a song played on MediaMonkey. I literally had hundreds of songs rated with stars and many dozens with five stars. Then I figured that it does not have any value to have so many songs rated that highly. Think about it: for a song to get five stars it must really be a special song, mustn't it?
So when I started thinking of how to make more sense of my song's ratings, I remembered that a bit over a decade ago when I used to travel for work (a lot) and consequently drove rental cars a lot, I always would burn some songs from my library onto audio CD's and take a folder with some CD's with me. This was when rentals that could play mp3's were really not that common yet. However, soon enough most rentals could indeed play mp's, so instead of burning audio CD's I burned data CD's and so I could either bring more music, or take less CD's. Remembering this then inspired me to set the limit for my 5 stars rating to one audio CD worth of music and that means a limit of 15 songs. Similarly, the mp3 CD is limited to 150 songs, but obviously if I want to take the best 150 songs from my collection, that also includes the 15 songs that had already been rated with five stars and so the four stars rating is limited to 135 songs. And on a side note, luckily MediaMonkey easily helped me with rating those songs with its autoplaylists of one audio CD worth of most listened songs and one mp3 CD worth.
A few years later most rental cars moved on to USB ports and I started carrying USB sticks. Please mind though that at that time they were actually still a bit expensive, so I started out with carrying a stick of just 1 or 2 GB. So the next level of rating songs that I chose was the capacity of a 2 GB USB stick, because it nearly tripples the limit from 150 songs to 450 songs. However, as with the four star and five star levels, already containing 150 songs, 300 songs may be rated with 3 stars.
Then my last chosen level of 2 stars is based on the present way we all take songs: the smartphone. 32 GB of memory nowadays is actually rather small, but I did base my rating on these 32 GB. Yet, a phone's operating system and a bunch of apps and photo's easily take up half of those 32 GB. So I set the limit to 16 GB of data, which according to a Google search I once did should hold about 2000 songs and so 1550 songs my get a 2 star rating.
So that is how I now set ratings of songs.
How do you rate your songs?
Regards, Eins
Here is my current way of rating songs:
5 stars: maximum 15 songs
4 stars: maximum 135 songs
3 stars: maximum 300 songs
2 stars: maximum 1550 songs
And here's how I came up with this:
A while ago I noticed that my library's rating system did not make a lot of sense. In the past fifteen years that I build my modest collection of some seven thousand songs I had arbitrarily given stars to songs based on my feeling when a song played on MediaMonkey. I literally had hundreds of songs rated with stars and many dozens with five stars. Then I figured that it does not have any value to have so many songs rated that highly. Think about it: for a song to get five stars it must really be a special song, mustn't it?
So when I started thinking of how to make more sense of my song's ratings, I remembered that a bit over a decade ago when I used to travel for work (a lot) and consequently drove rental cars a lot, I always would burn some songs from my library onto audio CD's and take a folder with some CD's with me. This was when rentals that could play mp3's were really not that common yet. However, soon enough most rentals could indeed play mp's, so instead of burning audio CD's I burned data CD's and so I could either bring more music, or take less CD's. Remembering this then inspired me to set the limit for my 5 stars rating to one audio CD worth of music and that means a limit of 15 songs. Similarly, the mp3 CD is limited to 150 songs, but obviously if I want to take the best 150 songs from my collection, that also includes the 15 songs that had already been rated with five stars and so the four stars rating is limited to 135 songs. And on a side note, luckily MediaMonkey easily helped me with rating those songs with its autoplaylists of one audio CD worth of most listened songs and one mp3 CD worth.
A few years later most rental cars moved on to USB ports and I started carrying USB sticks. Please mind though that at that time they were actually still a bit expensive, so I started out with carrying a stick of just 1 or 2 GB. So the next level of rating songs that I chose was the capacity of a 2 GB USB stick, because it nearly tripples the limit from 150 songs to 450 songs. However, as with the four star and five star levels, already containing 150 songs, 300 songs may be rated with 3 stars.
Then my last chosen level of 2 stars is based on the present way we all take songs: the smartphone. 32 GB of memory nowadays is actually rather small, but I did base my rating on these 32 GB. Yet, a phone's operating system and a bunch of apps and photo's easily take up half of those 32 GB. So I set the limit to 16 GB of data, which according to a Google search I once did should hold about 2000 songs and so 1550 songs my get a 2 star rating.
So that is how I now set ratings of songs.
How do you rate your songs?
Regards, Eins