cross-posted from: https://piefed.zeromedia.vip/c/selfhosting/p/451238/1-year-into-navidrome-with-dilligent-tagging-and-rating-and-this-is-how-someone
forgive the tyos, english is absolutely my first language but we strugglin over here, ya feel? or, take it as confirmation this ain’t some damn clanker bullshit
It’s just like holy shit! this is what I’ve wanted my music to do my whole life! This is almost just another member of the family.
Feishin and the smart playlists really really shine when adding user ratings into the mix. plus, adding a “mood” tag and then being able to use our own terms, it is incredible.
Build a custom station with the tags you want, then add “not played in the last <blank> days” (depending on how much traffic/supply of that particular kind of music gets) and it keeps it fresh. Add in “rating is not 1” and you’ll see the stuff that hasn’t been rated yet, but it won’t even let 1 start tracks into the queue!
I have rediscovered old favorites, found new songs by classic artists, have perfectly curated playlists down to the nth degree, custom stations that show me exactly what i want before i even knew i wanted to listen to that right then, all without commercials, on every device i own.
i am pumped for the future of the open subsonic API’s! I think a skipped count could be awesome. I’d like to automate some stuff based off skip counts.
the navidrome plugins are getting some inertia, i am excited to see where that goes.
Other Navidrome/opensubsonic users, how do you guys use the 5 stars? for me it is
- 5 amazing song, not only will i 99% of the time never skip it, i will try to get everyone’s attention and have them listen
- 4 i really like this song and have stopped what i am doing to pay attention to it, it is not likely but may get skipped depending on the mood/genre desired at that time
- 3 - this song is good and i notice it and smile while continuing doing my thing, unless it is the wrong mood/genre (can i blast it while working?), which means it gets skipped.
- 2 - this song is unobtrusive and doesn’t appear to bother or inspire me.
- 1 this song catches my attention due to disliking it. I will go out of my way to stop it from playing. i set up my stations to never call for those again.
I am looking for other ways to interface with this to be able to rate songs a little easier/safer (while driving?)
I am hopeful i will have the wiggle room to donate to navidrome, feishin, snapcast, mopidy, spindle, soon!!!
This is a selector i made for a custom randomizer.
I also usually listen to whole albums at a time and usually alone with headphones.
If i select artists then rating counts for artists. If not then it counts for either album/track. The next “item” to play is either a full album or a single track. The rating can be set dynamically. Shift 4 means rating 4 and up. Ctrl 3 means 3 and down. Shift 3 ctrl 4 means rating 3-4 only. I rarely do that but its possible.
The hearth simply filters only favourites items or not. Either tracks or albums. Artists dont have a favourite tag.
If thats confusing yeah i see why, but i understand it and i am the only person for whom it needs to work.
My rating system
In general.
4 stars is my gold standard for “very good music” but not just for me personally but also i would recommend and play this music for others.
5 stars are basically same as 4 stars but my absolute favourites among them.
3 stars are song i do like but are a bit more situational and would often get skipped.
1-2 are songs i never want to play automatically. But not perse cause i don’t like em. 2 is most often used for songs i don’t connect to. But 1 is mostly used as a non rating that is exclude from “not judged”
Mostly notably i have song with only 1 star rating that are favorited.
Favourited tracks mean i personally connect to the music on an emotional level. It does not matter how good the song technically is. If
The above image will play a random favorited album of an artist which i gave 4-5 stars.
heck yeah!! this is the kind of thing i was hoping this discussion would illuminate!! Our use of ratings feels very similar
i love the little graphic!
So you select and artist and it then chooses your favorite album, which you then listen to?
when first experiencing an album, i do have to listen to it a few times all the way through, i absolutely love the ratings for keeping track of which ones i was digging, and which ones were meh or ugh