All hummingbirds aside, I believe there are only three ratings: "I Like It", "I Don't Like It", and "I Can't Decide".
I've been playing this ratings game for 5+ yrs now, might take another 5 to evolve to your system
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Leaning towards something similar for album ratings.
The hard part is when you have an album with more good tracks than others or vice versa, there are some I like and some, absolutely crazy about, happens mostly with new stuff, wears off, somewhat, after 10 listens in a row ?
I think the reason otherwise rational people insist on a 10-scale or even 100-scale rating system is that they are rating different aspects of different songs using one single scale.
Dunno bout others but putting it that way, sounds like a lot of work
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what if you see more levels as granularity, with a view to indicating just how good or not an album is.
Look at AMG, they use 5 stars, along with half stars, to describe an album.
If I rate a song a "7", but I love the live version (10), although I hate the mix (3), what do I rate that version overall?
Just as you said, 3 different tracks with corresponding ratings, there is no 'overall' version
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