Re: [Banshee-List] Scoring question

[Brian Lucas <bcl1713 gmail com>]

The logic behind percentage being used is songs you may like with long annoying outros or "skits" tagged on the end. The more you listen the more you like. :) I won't be offended if this gets nixed though. As I said before this is quite old code and my job prevents me from being as involved as I once was.

On May 11, 2011 7:13 PM, "Freddy-N" <freddy-neumann arcor de> wrote:
> [UPDATE]
>
> After reading the souce code from TrackInfo.cs, I see that there is a
> misunderstanding in the use of PlayCount and SkipCount. PlayCount is not the
> total count of plays, it is the count of non-skipped plays. The total count
> of plays is PlayCount+SkipCount.
>
> In calculating Score the old value and an additional variable
> "percentCompleted" is taken into account.
>
> Score(n+1) := f(Score(n), PlayCount, SkipCount, percentCompleted)
>
> This makes things much more complicated. Score can't be re-calculated from
> PlayCount and SkipCount.
>
>
> So I don't know if it is a good idea to use percentCompleted in calculating
> Score.
>
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