The iTunes five-star ranking system is why God gave us five fingers....
Let's see - 0 stars are stuff I keep for completionist sake, or holiday songs, recordings of violin class, etc. 1 star means I find it "interesting." 2 stars means I like the song. 3 stars if I get an immediate, happy recognition when the song starts playing. 4 and 5 stars are my faves.
Then I get all overly-analytical about it, and think things like, "To maximize the usefulness of the ratings system, songs should be roughly evenly-distributed amongst the five possibilities (0-stars is a special case), and I only have about 700 5-star songs out of 14,000. I should take some of the best of the 4-star songs and make them 5-star."
msbelle's and tommy's posts made my head hurt.
I actually rate things on iTunes almost identically with Tommy, although I probably tend to overrate.
I actually rate things on iTunes almost identically with Tommy, although I probably tend to overrate.
Sort of like Netflix users.
Hey, Megan! Thanks for including one of our songs in the latest!
Soon you'll be right up there with Johnny Cash.
I figure, why do I own a song if I don't like it, so I don't mind that most of my ratings are a three. But then, I rate most things in the middle no matter what, so. (Like conference evaluations or whatever -- I'll give something I really liked 4 of 5.)
the reason I started the low rating to eliminate was I was adding lots and lots of music I had never listened to.
I must admit, when I rip CDs, I actually choose the songs I want to have, so I really don't have a lot that I don't like.
Anyone have any recs for instrumental guitar (or guitar plus) stuff, along the lines of the Foo Fighters "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" or some of the pieces from
Deadwood
or
Carnivale
?
Um, that they might be willing to share on brawk?
Caught the Herbie Hancock episode of Spectacle. Good episode, but DAMN, Herbie must have a portrait in the attic. For a man who's pushing 70 (if not over) he looks about 50, tops, and sounds like a kid.
ETA - yeah, he's 68. Spry doesn't even begin to describe him.
For a long time I didn't notice that Israel Kamakawiwo'ole didn't really know the words to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Now I can't stop noticing it.
