Re: DADA Auto-Rating (DAR) for foobar2000
Reply #155 – 2017-10-05 22:29:46
Excellent question! Short answer: Everything still holds for today. Long answer: The reason is that it's designed to work on a very large range and so although we're now in 2017 the question remains, how big is your library and when did you begin gathering playcount stats. The 2000 baseline number (which was chosen because stats cannot predate foobar2000) will work for the majority of people and won't need to be changed - even if one starts collecting stats in 2017. All it does is allow some fine tweaking to those users who have very small or very large collections. As you know, it's about the recycling speed of tracks - so small libraries will recycle tracks much quicker than large ones. As time passes it just allows the tweaking slider to slightly grow in length. It's really there for users who are noticing a dominance of either new or old tracks - and especially for those who have vast libraries - old tracks, rarely recycled through the playback cycle, might need a boost and they can incrementally raise the 2000 value toward the year (but not beyond) that when they began collecting stats. So no, nothing has really change, since for example, the date one starts collecting stats remains static. Good question. C. EDIT: What does change over time, is that it allows new users with new libraries and a recent stat collecting starting point a little more leeway (a slightly longer slider) than those of us oldies who have stats that date back to the 2000's. So you could imagine a volume slider that every year grows by 0.01. So after 10 years a new user can turn his music up to 10.1 - that doesn't mean they should. In this case they probably shouldn't. These were all things anticipated and tested for in the very long excel modelling phase.