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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: michaeljc70 on July 03, 2007, 11:22:05 am
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I would love a field that basically rates tracks based on how often they are played, but weighted toward current play rather than older plays. I go through phases of listen to different things, and often use smartlists based on number of plays. Unfortunately, I have tracks with thousands of plays and the ones I am playing a lot currently, don't make it into the SmartList. Here's what I am envisioning:
-It would only need 1 numeric field, called maybe "weighted plays"
-There would be a starting date, say 1/1/1950 and that would be given a value of 1. Every day after that would increase by say .1 (or whatever).
-When you play a track, it would add whatever todays value is to this field. Therefore, more current plays receive more weight and plays in the past are discounted.
-It would be nice if you could set the factor that affects how much more the current plays are favored over older plays.
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i love this idea. really nice.
i made my plugin that calculates number plays for albums. i really need to incorperate something like that.
thanks. :)
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took a while to find something that satifies and is not to complex.
but that made me think what could work for you more or less.
make a smart list where you order the last played decending, take 5 % of that and expand to full album.
something like this: [Media Type]=[Audio] ~sort=[last played]-d,[number plays]-d ~%=5 ~a
in the view order them in number plays decending.
when you want to make one for a second period you can make something the same with for instance 25% and then tell him to not use what is already in the first list.
far from ideal, but just an idea.
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Tanoshimi might have something for us to test soon (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=41252.0)
I think the question I raised in reply #6 touches on this very area.
-marko.