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onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months agoOn MusicBrainz there’s a 1-5 rating. A “like” could be a synced a 5 ⭐ rating.
Star ratings are kinda dumb in most situations.
People don’t think about how much they like or dislike something. They’re either neutral towards it (no interaction), they like it or they dislike it.
Most people’s libraries will probably be full of 1 star and 5 stars.
I definitely use stars.
A “like” doesn’t let me know if it’s my favorite or not. There are good songs I can listen to often, but that don’t make me start going “ooooh, this is a banger”. And simply not putting a “like” or a “heart” next to a song doesn’t indicate whether I disliked it or simply haven’t rated it yet for some reason.
It’s why upvote and downvote aren’t good for me. Right now, I’ll downvote your comment because I disagree and it’s the only option I have. But if it there were a more nuanced method of giving feedback (emojis or something not text), I’d use that instead.
You’re not the average user
There was a (small) user survey to see how our MetaBrainz forum members use ratings. Not a big enough sample size, nor from a broad enough spread of users, to take as gospel, but still interesting: community.metabrainz.org/t/…/57
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Ah yes you’re right, I forgot about that because I’ve never used either of those option. But it’s actually quite inconsistent that on MB you get the 5 start rating scale and on ListenBrainz you only get like/hate. Your suggestion to link them definitely makes sense to me.