Right, so I was surfing the winamp forums tonight and came across something I think would kick serious ass if Ejukebox did. Use certain criteria to make it look like a song had more entries inthe database (EG - weight using the star rating system. songs with 1 star would count for 1 song, all the way up to 5 star songs looking like they had 5, making them more likely to come up when nothing in in the playlist)

Would need to be optional though since some are bound to not like it. Maybe a weighted song mode with checks for using song pick counts, star ratings, combinations, etc etc.

Whaddya think? Good, Bad, Shut up and quit requesting inane features?

What is the difference between this and the current Popularity playmode in eJukebox?

The current popularity mode only lets a song play if it meets X rating or X playcount settings. The mode I'm proposing would in effect let any song in the dbase play but the higher the Rating or Pickcount or whatever the filter is the more likely it is to play. 5 star songs being 5 times more likely to get picked than 1 star songs.

A probability meter

Great idea - and "probability meter" sounds like a great term as well!

Kinda like when radio stations use A, B, & C rotation
Where A is the songs that gets the most airtime.
Right?
If so, I think it would be a great idea

Basically yeah, that's what I was thinking

Excellent idea Spazz!

I think this new "Probability meter" would increase my interest in song ratings if that produce them to be played more often when in autoplay random mode, because i use this mode a lot!
And when these super-songs will become a bit old-fashioned, then you only need to lower their ratings to hear them less often... I think that make sense.

A much simpler way might be to just display the current popularity rating along with the starred "excellence" rating and allow the popularity number to be manually adjusted (although NOT locked into place since it will continue to "grow" if the song is chosen more in the future, or manually knocked down if you so decide later on).

As for a "5 star" playing 5 times more than a 1 star, I'm not sure I'd want the differential to be on a straight angle like that. It should be more of a steepening curve.