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trancaholic
Danish Prophet of Doom

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aalborg

Re: Song ratings...

quote:
Originally posted by djrory
How can anyone give a song 10/10? I know its only a personal thing but giving a track 10/10 means its absolutly flawless? Maybe PvD's - For an Angel or Lost Tribe - Gamemaster deserve a 10/10. But then again there will be people that disagree with me. Just wanted to know what you all thought...

The rating will also depend on your view of how ratings should distribute: If you think that x/10 should be awarded to roughly 10% of all tracks then it's a natural thing to rate "many" tracks 10/10.

However, if you view ratings as following a bell curve distribution with many tracks getting 5/10 and 6/10, less getting 7/10 and 4/10 and so on until almost no songs getting 10/10 and 1/10, then you will most likely never assign 10/10 to any track.

It all depends on where you want to be able to distinguish: To me it is important to know whether a slightly above average track is on almost good or jsut average - as that decides whether I will check it out or not. If all those tracks are lumped into one pile labelled 6/10, then I cannot do that.
But if it is most important for you to know whether a tracks is fantastic or absolutely uniquely incredible then you need the bell curve distribution.

Sep-19-2003 05:32 Denmark

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Mr.Mystery
Static Guru

Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa

Why the hell do you need to give ratings to tunes anyway? Like anyone cares what score you give to it.

You either like it or you don't. I don't need to give any scores to tell you that.

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Sep-19-2003 06:15 Finland

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sash
retired.

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia

well if i know i have similar tastes in music as someone, and they rate something well, i'll know that i'll probably like it too... so i'll be on the lookout for that track

Sep-19-2003 06:45 Australia

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Ground_0
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Calgary

quote:
Originally posted by Floorfiller
thats why i take the opinions of people that i trust...

Grimreaper
Aloep
JayD
Cobalt
Blank
UWM

etc..etc...

the rest of you listen to crap anyway...

Hahahahaahahaha I haven't laughed like that in a long time, so true tho.

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Sep-19-2003 12:09 Canada

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TOR
Traveller

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Bruges, Belgium

10 means 'absolutely perfect', and it doesn't exist in my opinion..

"fire & ice - lost emotions (original mix)" is my favorite trance track of all time, but even that one is "only" worth 9.6 or something..

0 is impossible as well, even summerjam 2003 deserves 0.3

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Sep-19-2003 14:57 Europe

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m0sh
Ibiza 05'

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Israel,kfar shmaryahu ôùò

My ratings are diff from others...

11/10 is perfect
10/10 very good
9/10 good
8/10 nice
7/10 blah
6/10 sux

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m0sh
Ibiza 05'

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Israel,kfar shmaryahu ôùò

/me is special... !

11/10 = james holden - nothing

Sep-19-2003 17:30

SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester

10/10 This track has absolutely nothing wrong with it, and you've never got tired of it.

9/10 A track you'd go out of your way to buy, and one that you always play if its on a CD. This is one of your favourite records.

8/10 A very good track, one that you'd buy if you saw it, and one that you'd recommend to a friend, but would get tired of after a while.

7/10 A good track that you would listen to if it was on a CD, but wouldn't skip ahead to. You'd buy it if it was cheap, but not otherwise.

6/10 A decent track that you listen to when you're in the mood for a change. You can listen to it happily, but that's about it.

5/10 An average track, one you think is okay, but nothing special, and you'd probably skip it before it finished.

4/10 A below average track you don't like and won't listen to it except for the first time.

3/10 A bad track you don't like and have never listened to all the way through

2/10 An appalling track that you'd skip if it started playing and would denounce to anyone.

1/10 An unbearably bad track that you have to either skip or leave the room when it starts playing. Its actually discomforting to listen to.

I can give about 5 tracks 10/10, such as PPK- ResuRection, DJ Tiesto Suburban Train and Binary Finary- 1998.