Suggestion: playtime statistics

[Christer Ekholm]

Greg Meyer <greg at gkmweb.com> writes:

>> I calculated that for some tracks, and it looks like it could be
>> right.  But what about tracks played only once? And I would alos like
>> to see that number in the playlist, or use it in a smartplaylist.
>>
> that would be [(score * 2) - 50] * length

Thanks. But I'm not able to find anywhere to enter that formula so the
value can be visible.  Is there any?

>
>> Is the scoreformula documented somewhere?
>>
> I don't think it is documented in the handbook, but I think there was a forum 
> thread that detailed it.  It is basically as follows:
>
> First play = (50 + percentage of length played) divided by 2
>
>     This means a song played from beginning to end will 
>     get an initial score of 75
>
> Thereafter = (percentage played + playcount*oldscore)/playcount + 1
>
> so a song played for the third time that had a score of 80 will score a 87
>
>     80 * 2 = 160 + 100 =260 / 3 = 86.7
>

Thanks.


>> Can I modify it?
> You will be able to in 1.4.1.  The new version will allow a custom scoring 
> script to disable automatic scoring/

Great!

A modifiable scoringformula is even better than the possibility to
show the total playtime.  I'm running 1.4.1-beta1 And in the
Tools->script Manager thera are two entries under Score. Default and
Impulsive I can't seem to do anything with them. The edit menuchoise
just son't do anything. And the Configure-buttun just says "This scrip
does not require any configuration"


--
 Christer