Collection & Listened

RFNAPLES · #1 | Posted: 07/22/2010 17:54 | Post subject: Collection & Listened

It is probably safe to assume most people have listened to most albums in their collection at least once. Can we make it less time consumming by automatically including all albums in a collection also as listened? For those rare situations when not true, a member can always remove an album from listened.
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albummaster · #2 | Posted: 07/23/2010 07:44 | Post subject:

Yes, that's a good idea - we'll implement that in the next few days. The functionality is very new and we expected to make a few tweaks to help it settle in once we got some feedback from people using it.

We also considered removing the 'listened' list entirely and just having collections, but some people download, listen & delete, or just borrow & listen from libraries/friends (but still need a way of tracking).

Bork · #3 | Posted: 07/23/2010 11:44 | Post subject:

I disagree. I have some 3,500 albums in my bookshelf and I bet there are over 500 of them that I have never really listened to. I may have heard some songs from some of them or had it on in the background or in some cases never heard anything at all. (Mathematically it would be faster, of course, to remove those 500 than to add the other 3,000 so it might not be that bad an idea after all).

I do, however, think it is safe to assume that you have listened to anything you have either rated or put in your favorites, so that could be auto-added.

Bork · #4 | Posted: 07/23/2010 11:46 | Post subject:

Another thing I noticed. I went through the whole overall chart and added to my collection. There are still around 100 that I don't own, but at the main page it shows -55.

RFNAPLES · #5 | Posted: 07/23/2010 12:20 | Post subject:

I agree with Bork about automatically selecting listened for albums rated. I still think that MOST people listen to MOST albums in their collection. Bork, do you have a squirrel in your family tree? Wink

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Bork · #6 | Posted: 07/23/2010 12:53 | Post subject:

Probably several of them. Don't you ever walk by a record store, browse through the discount rack and find a dozen albums or so that you want, pick them up and bring them home to that big pile of records you picked up last time and will not likely get around to listening to in any near future?

Anyway, I realized why the statistics on the overall chart page give you a negative figure on albums in your collection. There are in reality more than 500 albums on that list and it checks all of them, then deducts that figure from 500. It should just check the first 50 pages of that list or it will be wrong.

RFNAPLES · #7 | Posted: 07/23/2010 13:04 | Post subject:

The mathematical error does not appear on my chart.
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albummaster · #8 | Posted: 07/23/2010 14:05 | Post subject:

RFNAPLES · #9 | Posted: 07/23/2010 14:16 | Post subject:

It might be nice to allow members the option of having collection, listened, wish list, &/or collector's summary public (with private as default).
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RFNAPLES · #10 | Posted: 07/23/2010 14:23 | Post subject:

Bork is this correct:

Collector's summary

There are 50 albums in your chart:
There are 34 albums that you have not listened
There are 22 albums not in your collection

I presumed you would either have to listen &/or own an album before it makes your chart.
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