Autorate ruined my life

The Autorate application ruined my life.

I use to have all of my music rated in a way that made it perfect for listening to while I was riding my bike.

5 = Awesome songs that would get me pumped and that I would never have to skip while riding
4 = All the songs that I just really liked to listen to while riding
3 = Songs that I like but that aren’t really riding songs
2 = The songs that I don’t personally like but other people do
1 = Everything that should be deleted

Now my music collection isn’t the biggest in the world, I have 1878 tracks all of which were perfectly rated according to the system above. Until for some stupid reason I decided to run the Autorate program on my entire library.

The autorate program rates tracks based on playcount and skipcount so I ended up with a library full of songs with ratings of only 1 – 3 stars.

I made sure to rate each album as I added it to my library so the task wasn’t so big, it’s now maybe 3 months since I ran autorate and I’m still discovering songs that should be rated 5 but are rated 1.

Moral of the story: Don’t trust anything but yourself to rate the songs you like.