Rate individual songs

[pr1nc1p3]

As all know, there are a lot of albums that has very good songs with very bad songs. Thanks for your work. I love Subsonic!

[kayvee]

+1 for the idea.

[Coolmax]

Yes, +1 from me too

[HiSpeed]

+1 from me too

[Hjcrx]

Rating albums is not that interesting.
Rating of songs is more important.

[cyclopes]

+1 from me too

[pr1nc1p3]

A cool feature can be rate songs separate for users and make searches by mixing-rate, user-alone-rate...

[kdid]

In MediaMonkey you can rate individual songs, and then make an automatic playlist based on the song ratings. Then you can play in dj-mode (I think its called). In that mode MM will randomly pick songs from the specified playlist and add to the current playing playlist. In addition you can override what is going to be played by removing songs from the about to be played playlist, or add new songs to the beginning or end of the playlist. I like that way of playing music very much, and would had liked to see something similar in Subsonic.

But for that to be possible we will first need rating per song. And also rating per song per user.

It then must be a setting per user if you want your ratings to be showable for other users. Then each users could easily check out what music other users have rated.

[hanno]

hi all

First of all, i'm not quite sure if this is the right thread to post this answer, because it's more a way to solving this feature request; but at least it's the right topic and i'll see, if someone moves my post

so i concede you guys, that the feature to rate individual songs would be a mayor improvement to subsonic and because it hasn't been added yet, i just checked out the latest subsonic sources from the SVN trunk and tried to add the feature by myself:
one of the mayor problems is the mp3 tag engine in subsonic, because i couldn't find a proper support in "entagged" to read the ratings from a file. so i asked google and found the jaudiotagger engine. i added the engine to the subsonic maven repository and modified the class EntaggedParser (Package: net.sourceforge.subsonic.domain) to support id3-rating-tags. this worked out quite fine, but not i'm facing the problem to add the support of handling those ratings to the web interface of subsonic. this should be done by quick copy-pasting the rating bar from the "rate-the-hole album" view to each single song; but because i'm not well versed in JSP programming yet, i hope some of the admin/developer guys read this post and can help me by telling me, which files to change?!

best regards
hanno

P.S.:
By the way, i played around with the jaudiotagger engine and found some more features (besides the automatic playlist KDID mentioned, which is an awesome feature in MediaMonkey, i'm using by myself), like the support of the "PCNT" id3 tag. this play counter could be another nice feature to add, enabling subsonic to retrieve some statistics about your favorite songs; no matter if you played them in subsonic or any other player like MediaMonkey.

[Larro]

I vote yes.

[deejay2302]

I vote yes too

[possebon]

Me too, 1 vote

[moonraker76]

Just been trying to figure this out myself in subsonic and thought it was just me being thick

[octopus22]

one of most waited features for sure!!

[skipperfoto]

+1 for me.

It cant be that hard to implement in subsonic. Away with the album rate and in with the individual song rating.

And if this ratings can be stored in the mp3 file, that would be a nice bonus.