2016-11-05, 10:57
Unfortunately, like much else, we have no way to know how many users try to import ratings or what they use to tag them.
It seems to me that Media Monkey have cocked up their POPM implementation when in 2013 they changed 1 star to write POPM value 1 (instead of 23), but left 0.5 star as 13. They seem to have forgotten they have half stars, also what they list now is completely different to their original schema.
Meanwhile back at Kodi. If we knew for sure what the Media Monkey schema was, and a way to know that was what was in the tags then Kodi could handle it. Quite a simple fix, if we had the facts.
Previous Kodi versions divided 255 into 5 steps - <64, <128, <192, <255, =255 - here only 255 is max
V17 divides 255 into 10 steps - <25, <50, <75, <100, <125, <150, <175, <200, <225, <=255 - here 225 to 255 is max, bigger than the 25 internal of all the other steps
If I was implementing this then I would say 255 / 10 = 25.5, and go
<27, <52, <78, <103, <129, <154, <180, <203, <231, <=255
which is much like the original Media Monkey schema. So what they used to do long ago makes sense to me
What they do now, shown my Paul's testing, not so much.
But I do wonder if there is any value in switching to my schema rather than the 25 interval one we have in v17 so far? It would work better with any music rated in an old version of Media Monkey, but how useful is that?
It seems to me that Media Monkey have cocked up their POPM implementation when in 2013 they changed 1 star to write POPM value 1 (instead of 23), but left 0.5 star as 13. They seem to have forgotten they have half stars, also what they list now is completely different to their original schema.
Meanwhile back at Kodi. If we knew for sure what the Media Monkey schema was, and a way to know that was what was in the tags then Kodi could handle it. Quite a simple fix, if we had the facts.
Previous Kodi versions divided 255 into 5 steps - <64, <128, <192, <255, =255 - here only 255 is max
V17 divides 255 into 10 steps - <25, <50, <75, <100, <125, <150, <175, <200, <225, <=255 - here 225 to 255 is max, bigger than the 25 internal of all the other steps
If I was implementing this then I would say 255 / 10 = 25.5, and go
<27, <52, <78, <103, <129, <154, <180, <203, <231, <=255
which is much like the original Media Monkey schema. So what they used to do long ago makes sense to me
What they do now, shown my Paul's testing, not so much.
But I do wonder if there is any value in switching to my schema rather than the 25 interval one we have in v17 so far? It would work better with any music rated in an old version of Media Monkey, but how useful is that?
