Re: Smart Playlists and Song Rating

Morten van Wezel wrote:

>>Offset     Meaning
>>0x00-0x03  number of times song has been played
>>0x04-0x07  mac-timestamp (number of seconds since GMT 0:00 1-Jan-1904)
>>            subtract 2,082,844,800 seconds to obtain Unix timestamp
>>         (number of seconds since GMT 0:00 1-Jan-1970)
>>0x08-0x0b  0x00 ???
>>0x0c-0x0f  star rating * 0x14 (only available with 2.0 firmware)
> 
> 
> Im missing one: the RMS volume of the track. Perhaps thats the "???" in
> your quote? It would make sense, the ipod supposedly keeps track of
> overall volume of a track so you can normalize/replaygain the tracks so
> there are no more earshattering or whispersoft-then-earshattering
> experiences.

Don't ask me...I just copied that from the site in case our fearless 
developers haven't been there lately.

>>Can we to have access to this functionality in the next release of 
>>ephpod?  Maybe not as full of an implementation as iTunes has, but at 
>>least the ability to have a "recently played" playlist and to 
>>sort/manually create a playlist by star rating would be great.
> 
> 
> I don't really understand how this 'recently played' works. I can sortof
> see the use when you want to look back at hope what you've played so you can
> identify (or at least narrow down the proces of finding) a track you really
> liked. But in my experience you usually just 'happen upon' a track by
> the shuffle function. I think very few people DJ themselves and at the
> end of the last track go thru their playlists and select the next track
> they want to hear. And if its just the computer picking the tunes
> anyway, then what use is this 'recently played' list?

I'm not entirely sure, but I think this proces is done in iTunes - when 
you plug in, it automatically creates certain lists for you.

> Anyway well I know the ephpod coder is working on lots of things
> including these extended features, but personally Id love to first see
> AAC (MP4) fully supported since that really is a key feature, and after
> that extra 'frills' like these options and the 'full legible path and
> filenames' trick I've documented.
> (http://ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3877)

I agree with you on the AAC thing - in my mind, that's the #1 item to 
get fixed.  The legible naming scheme is pretty clever too...we've all 
got our wishlists...I guess we just wait and see what we get in the next 
version.

--Ben


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