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[Ben Bennett]

Could you post that weird mapping here please so that it is at least
known in the archives...

		-ben

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:09:32PM -0400, Ben Allison wrote:
> Besides the problem of modifying users' files to increment the playcount
> without explicit permission (something I agree with you 100% on, Scott),
> there is also the issue that the mapping of 1-5 stars with POPM values is
> very vague.  In Winamp, we've been somewhat coerced into adopting the
> weird value ranges that Windows Media Player uses, as that is that is also
> the logic used by the Windows file explorer when displaying the rating
> column in the file view.
> 
> -Ben Allison
> 
> >
> > On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Ben Bennett wrote:
> >
> >> However... the players mostly don't use it.  You should hound them to
> >> get it used.
> >
> > I believe rightly so.  I don't think that a normal operation like playing
> > a file should trigger a potentially lossy (e.g. ID3v2.2 to ID3v2.4
> > upgrade) action on a user's files.
> >
> > -Scott
> >
> > (to the mods, please just delete the earlier post saying something
> > similar, sent it from the wrong address)
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