Auto Rating of Songs & Radio Announcer v5.02 [Script]

[DiddeLeeDoo]

I couldn't help myself. So current version do something like this. Red zone is considered as skip, if the track is played from start to finish.


Blue, sampling area (not measured in percent, but seconds of sampling)
Green... may be considered as a full play.

All up, room for improvements, and at a point I though it may be cool to rate freshly added music a bit differently than music you've had for awhile.

Rating is not really being or end all for the song. There are other considerations. But this is pretty cool for all of us that may not give manual attention to rating much time.

[DiddeLeeDoo]

I appreciate that you mentioned moods! Pablo!!

Thought it would be nice to catch when a song received a playcount upgrade and get tagged. That way you can find when a song is popular, and you can do custom playlists, like your favorite morning songs, evening songs, dinner songs, latenight songs, etc.

Plus it can be so that if song receive a skip outside it's 'sweet spot' do not degrade.

Example of peak popularity of a song.
Saturday morning in Spring
or
Christmas morning
If you wonder why a song have 4 Stars, you can look up and see that you love this song on Saturday mornings in spring time

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Done the first part of this at the moment, plus PlayPercentage issues
Have not done Special Times of Year, being Birthdays, Christmas etc. at this point.

[rovingcowboy]

to quote the mrs,

if you don't get me some attention that computer is going out the window with you holding on to it.?



the faint voice of another coding widow.



but i like the idea of the new script for moods.

i just don't like the idea of the messing with my skin design.

[DiddeLeeDoo]

Been out tonight, and came here for a look. Looks like I've got new batteries for my keyboard or something. Should reduce that previos post down a bit..

Is that default non-skinned MediaMonkey your design Rowing Cowboy ?

(Tried first to show this timing issue using a .html graph, but I do not seem to have .html abilities when posting here... )

[Guest]

no not the default skin

but if it does that to the skins then it would mess up all skins wouldn't it?



my skins are at my site.

http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/rovingcowb ... loads.html

which by the way i just updated the look of the page a littel bit.

roving cowboy / keith hall

not logged in.

[DiddeLeeDoo]

Ahhh, now I understand.... Well, it was just to show the 'hot zone' when skipping tracks.

Blue - Cold period, nothing happens.
Red - Skip monitor is active.
Green - Song will be considered played.

I tried to use a graph to show it, but as I didn't get the .html graph in, I just used that player to show areas during playing. It's not a new skin..

I thought MM would register a song as played after being played, and not like 30% or so into the song. It basically means the percentage thing in the script would need to be redesigned to go beyond 30%.

[DiddeLeeDoo]

Here's todays version.

Improvments in this version,
1. Cleaner thanks to valuable guidelines from the Master!
2. Played Percentage should work now.
3. A note about when the song upgraded will be written to Custom2
4. Datafile now get stored in the \Scripts\ folder instead of c:\logfile

A note about the Custom2 field.
At this point this script make use of the Custom2 field, and fill it with values like this

Sunday evening in Spring

ONLY if the song receive a PlayCountRating upgrade. Like if you have a 2.5 Star song, and play it, you'll get 3 Stars because you tolerate the song, and the Custom2 field will get a note like

Day TimeOfDay in Season
(Sunday evening in Spring)

or Autumn if you're on the Southern side of Earth, and if you are, then please go all the way down in the script and change
NorthernHemisphere = True
to
NorthernHemisphere = False

The idea with this is that you can later find your favorite Sunday morning songs, and make custom playlists. Saturday evening songs.. Winter songs, or whatever...
The plan is to take it further to include Days of Year that is special, like Christmas, so you can find your favorite Christmas songs easy, and Birthday songs, and things like that.

If you do not want that value written to Custom2 then delete this line
MySong.Custom2 = wDay & TimeOfDay & " in " & Season

This version seems to work well as far as I can tell, it takes time to test, so if you're a tester, please let me know how you're going.

I'll leave that previous version available too for a little while.
If you have tried the previous versions you'll have a
c:\lastsong and maybe a
c:\lastsong.log
These are no longer needed, and can be deleted.

AutoRateSongs.vbs

Code: Select all

REMOVED


Wonder if I can get that Hemisphere stuff up amongst parameters. The way things are going, an option sheet may be needed soon.

[DiddeLeeDoo]

RovingCowboy has an idea that may work out.
Tried to send you a PM but it's stuck in the outbox.

Like now the script does hours, he wants to do a week at a time.

This is not really that hard to do, and could be done quite easily. In addition to that it could do Between XX and XX count per week to qualify for X Star, and rate song on a weekly basis.

This to me seems to be more a 'Count of Plays per week report', than an actual rating system. Just wanted to air it here, to see if anyone may have an opinion about this. It all started off with the idea, very much helped by Teknojnky!!!

If anyone has ideas of improvements, I'd appreciate a discussion about it here.

[Teknojnky]

You've done all the work, so Thank You!

[DiddeLeeDoo]

Thank you Teknojnky, it's fun have come this far in only a few days.

Ideas I'm chewing on, are things like.

User set MediaMonkey in Occasion = Party for the next 8 Hours.

Then all songs played and upgraded for the next 8 hours will be marked

Occasion = Party in Spring
Mood = Upbeat

and then if you the day after have a hangover, you may skip those Upbeat songs, but the skip monitor will be disabled.

Like if mood now is Easy then do not degrade this Upbeat song.

That way it may be possible to automate some useful info in those
Occasion and Mood fields too..

[rovingcowboy]

RovingCowboy has an idea that may work out.
Tried to send you a PM but it's stuck in the outbox.

Like now the script does hours, he wants to do a week at a time.

This is not really that hard to do, and could be done quite easily. In addition to that it could do Between XX and XX count per week to qualify for X Star, and rate song on a weekly basis.

This to me seems to be more a 'Count of Plays per week report', than an actual rating system. Just wanted to air it here, to see if anyone may have an opinion about this. It all started off with the idea, very much helped by Teknojnky!!!

If anyone has ideas of improvements, I'd appreciate a discussion about it here.

i got the pm? it must have just added a copy to your in box.

[rovingcowboy]

all that season and time of day stuff is more then i need.

the time limit for testing this just got set to over one year if you test the season stuff.



the play count for the week is good idea to add in. that way i would not have to keep resetting the play counter..

but the way i sent you in the pm is the way i found to work best for what i do. of course i am always open to better ways then that long list adjustment i did.

i would like to have someone that is doing a internet radio station test this script out also because there would be more then just one 24 / 7 tester that way. i do need some sleep. and testing for all the stuff is keeping me up.

so i know that mrs diddeleedoo is getting that skillet ready for some heavy useage. i hope it is an tin skillet and not cast iron.



BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

too late that had ta hurt ya diddeleedoo?

[DiddeLeeDoo]

I guess when discovering scripting in MediaMonkey it's easy to get carried away.!!!

Hanging curtings with the misses today, so it's back to being a good boy...

Added: That Radio station is quite easy really.
You go by week numbers, and create a report for Week 1 Week 2 Week 3.. and so on... just as easy as going back 24 hours. It's not hard to get a report for "Most Popular Tracks" for Week 12, 2006 for example, and have them automatically generating as web pages for example. That's a bit different than Ratings though, that goes more into 'like or dislike a song'

Rating is more personal..... Popular songs in general may not be your 'cup of tea'

[rovingcowboy]

yep that is a good way to make a hard copy of the weekly list. you could just print it out then.

i just make it to play the songs on saturday as the top of the charts list in what i do with that personel transmitter.

the prof.. radio sations might need to have a hard copy.
i did not think of that?

[DiddeLeeDoo]

Advanced option ideas, now put into script below