music ratings

iTunes music rating system, as well as Windows Media Player’s, have five stars. I may be wrong, but a scale of five stars is just inadequate.

I think it should be either ten stars, or a scale of 100. Lauchcast allows you to have a rating system on a scale of 100, and I think that’s way better. I mean… how many songs/movies/whatever would get five stars? It can’t be many. And how many cds do you buy that you really like so little that you rate them one star? One star is the lowest, which means you absolutly don’t like it and don’t want to hear it. You can’t rate it zero stars.

So that means one star and five stars are pretty restricted. So you’ve got the middle three, which isn’t a whole lot of range. My guess is there are a whole lot of three stars in most people’s iTunes library.