re: Can we have the 5 star rating system back, please?

Im loving the media monkey rating system right now.  5 stars and each star is worth two points so three stars is a 6, three and a half stars is a 7, four stars is an 8, four and a half stars is a 9 and five stars is a 10.  Its really a great system when you have a lot of music.  No matter what I think zune should give us a way to import ratings from either the pc or wmp or something.  It already does this because all the songs I rated in media monkey all have hearts by them in my zune collection.  But it would be nice if the zune team just implemented a five star system where we can rate either half or whole stars giving us a ten point system.  That way I wouldnt have to rerate all my songs over since media monkey writes ratings on the the actual file.  Ten points may seem like overkill but I DJ so the more precise you can be the better.

I totally agree man, 5 star rating is way more useful than 2 hearts. I mean no one will ever have a song they don't like in their library so the broken heart is useless, and it is much easier to remember if a song was amazing, good, not bad, or just plain wack with 5 stars........... :)

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i like the hearts. when i had five stars in itunes, i used 4's and 5's to say i like something, but then id forget why a song had a 4 instead of 5 and vice versa, then i'd hafta go and change it. 0/1 just meant dont bother me with this anymore, but i can't bring myself to delete it. THAT SAID, i'd like the CHOICE, plz dont make decisions for me, software makers, thanks.

I'm gonna jump into the fray and announce that I like the heart system. Don't get me wrong, i definitely see the advantages in having a 5-point ratings system. it does allow you more freedom and nuance when categorizing your music and creating playlists, etc. When i first started using zune as my music player over WMP, i thought i would really miss it (in fact, that's why i only used the zune software to sync with my device for a long time) but after switching over to the hearts, i have to say that it is much more streamlined, and i lost virtually NO convenience. because when you really boil it down, the five ratings were just different ways of saying you liked something or didn't. I mean, yeah, i could say some songs were fives (masterpieces) while others were threes (good enough for a playlist) but at the end of the day, I would include every song of a certain type i liked in a playlist. I mean, if i don't like it, i'm not going to PUT it in a playlist, right? i can't see myself saying ,"ok, i only feel like listening to the songs i REALLY like right now."

Something else I haven't noticed anyone else bring up yet: it is MUCH easier to change a songs rating from the device itself with 3 possibilities instead of 6. Especially when you have t cycle through the possibilities in one direction. this might not seem like a big deal, but i listen to my zune mostly in the car. It's so easy to "discover" good songs i haven't listened to yet in my library when i know i can just click the middle button twice for a good rating (bring up the menue, then rate it "like") or once more for a bad rating. This would be alot more difficult with a more complex ratings system. yeah, i could just hit it six times under the other system, but If i'm not looking at the screen and i cick one too many times, i just said i hated that song, and my zune will kick it out of all my auto playlists instead of preserving it like i hoped. Same for runners, or anything accept sitting, really.

I think the ability to choose your ratings system couldn't hurt, however. especially the ability to change the picture. Hearts just don't do it for me. neither does the pink that's plastered over everything zune related. hey, maybe we could even make our OWN icons for rating things? talk about customization, huh?

I wouldn't mind the heart system if they had a rating for both neutral and unrated. All I ask is they make it Heart, Broken Heart, No Heart, and Question Mark.

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five star rating is the way to go!!!!
but it would be so much better if we can use halves
like 4 and 1/2, etc....

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I'll jump into this old thread. I want five stars, the same thing I have in WMP. I just bought an album from Amazon (I had an Amazon gift card and the Zune Marketplace still had DRM on the album I wanted) I listened to all the songs. Of the 15 tracks, there were no 1 or 2 stars, four 3 star tracks, four 5 star tracks, and the rest were 4 stars. In the Zune software, they all display as like. I do like the album, but when I create playlists, I want to make them based on a star rating so I don't listen to a bunch of mediocre or sorta liked songs. If creating a star system for the Zune software is too difficult, a full, half, or empty heart system would work too. Though, IMO a full heart should go only to 5 stared tracks the listener enjoys very much.

I think both systems are O.K. If I had to chose though I'd go back to Five Stars. Yay for petition to Five Stars!

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zunies rate their content ? why would someone do that? simply make separate play lists of your favorite songs. one list for jogging, another for sexy time,another for deep thinking......ratings ? we dont really need no stinkin ratings.

Yep, need to be able to rate our songs with more than like / dislike.

Hmmmm, no change in ability to rate songs and the announcement of no integration of the Zune and last.fm? Guess I have a simple solution since Microsoft fails to care about its customers and that is go buy another device and quit supporting Microsoft.

While Zune/Last.fm may be a viable argument, although I think we all know the reason is that Microsoft is pushing for their Social service first, the ability to use a 5-star rating system is a rather ridiculous reason to change media players. Really, they're not going to do it and in light of all the features the Zune offers it's really not that big a deal. There are more important things to be done: internationality, Xbox/Zune integration, advertising, etc