Hello there, I\'m sort of a new linux user, and I really love amarok, it\'s probably my favorite media player on any OS. I only have one real compliant though, and that is that even if I set a \"score\" manually, skipping to the next track brings the score lower! To me this is very annoying because I have all of my music custom rated and an automatic playlist of songs that I decided I like in Winamp, not what Winamp (or Amarok, or anything else) decided I like. I understand what you\'re trying to do with making scores automatic and all, but it\'s seriously annoying to have it be constantly changing how much I said I like a song!

Now if there were some checkbox in edit window that would let you lock scores, and some way to turn off auto-scored songs in automatic playlists then the feature wouldn\'t be as annoying to me. Also, perhaps a better way of dealing with this is having scores be untouchable by the user and creating a seperate \"rating\" option and have it work like scores, but require it to be set by the user and amarok would just leave it alone. Also it would be best if ratings would integrate themselves into ID3 tags so that they carry over into other media players. Media Monkey has this feature, so there\'s already some sort of standard.

Apart from this annoyance, Amarok is my favorite media player overall. With it\'s integration with all those different web services it\'s really something special, and I wish you devs good luck with it, I hope it goes far and becomes the next iTunes in terms of popularity (I suppose you\'d have to make a windows port for that to happen though).

I\'ve been looking into this, and it seems you have the following:

Ratings are an integer from 0-5, 0 meaning unrated and the others representing quality. These are set by the user. While amaroK\'s UI for this is practically nonexistant, they can be used by Smart Playlists, displayed in the OSD, and controlled by the dcop interface.

Scores are an integer from 0-100 (0 means unrated). This is changed automatically by amaroK, and while it can be set by the user, this is not the intent (most people don\'t like having to choose from so many possible values manually). They are better integrated into amaroK.

I don\'t think there is a way to lock the scores, but you could use the Score2Rating script to convert your existing scores into ratings, which will not be changed.

I have used xbindkeys to allow me to change the rating from the otherwise useless \'multimedia keys\' on my keyboard (who really needs to open up the windows calculator in such a hurry that they need an extra key?)

Hmm, ok so they already have ratings paralell to scores, but they just haven\'t made them ready for the GUI yet then? That\'s interesting, well I\'m glad they\'re there, I just hope they fully implement them soon. So since they\'re there, do you know if they transfer to iPods? Because if they do then that is a very attractive feature to me.

amarok 1.4-SVN (development version) has support for score and ratings. You can rate tracks directly in the playlist.

Awesome, I\'m very glad to hear it. I can\'t wait till 1.4 stable comes out!