The usefulness of the rating in the players.

In many players (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.) there is a mechanism for rating songs. Recently I decided to assign each song in my audio collection the correct, in my opinion, rating. After a while, I wondered: why is this rating needed at all? After all, if I put a bad rating on a song, it means that I don’t like this song. And since I don’t like it, I’ll most likely remove it. If the song I put the rating is good, then what will it change? After all, when setting the rating, I will retain only those songs that I like, i.e. all remaining songs will be well rated. In this case, the rating utility tends to zero.

Of course, you can use the rating system a little differently. Everyone, sooner or later, get bored with the songs they listen to. Then you can those songs that you listen to put a good rating, and songs that you do not listen, but there is a chance that someday you will start to listen to them, put a bad rating (the rest are archived :). In this way, a kind of “cycle” will turn out, in which gradually annoying songs lose their rating, and new songs, or deferred reserve, will increase it. You can use this scheme, but for me, for example, all of the above happens without using a rating by compiling playlists.

In general, I am of the opinion that rating songs is a useless thing. It would be interesting to read other points of view.