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By default community rating is shown. As soon as user rates an entity, he/she will only see its own rating. |
By default community rating is shown. As soon as user rates an entity, he/she will only see its own rating. |
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''Ratings display can be disabled in User Preferences for those you don't care about ratings''. |
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==Colors meaning== |
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==Web service== |
==Web service== |
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The [[XML Web Service|XMLWebService]] |
The [[XML Web Service|XMLWebService]] has been updated in order to allow to retrieve or update rating via WS in a similar way to how [[Folksonomy Tagging|FolksonomyTagging]] works. |
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Either by the new /rating resource for submitting/retriving one specific rating: <pre>wget --user=<editor name> --password=<password> --post-data=id=8f6bd1e4-fbe1-4f50-aa9b-94c450ec0f11\&entity=artist\&rating=3 http://test.musicbrainz.org/ws/1/rating |
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or by using the new inc parameters <code><nowiki>ratings, user-ratings</nowiki></code> with the artist, label, release or tracks resources as described in [[XML Web Service|XMLWebService]]. |
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[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Documentation]] |
[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Documentation]] |
Revision as of 18:16, 14 November 2008
MusicBrainz Rating System
Description
Rating is a new feature which is currently being develloped (Oct 2008), and which should be integrated in the 2008 server release.
Users will be able to rates MusicBrainz entities (artists, labels, releases and tracks).
Details
Each user rating will be a number between 0 and 5. Then the system will aggregate users ratings to compute the average community rating.
By default community rating is shown. As soon as user rates an entity, he/she will only see its own rating.
Ratings display can be disabled in User Preferences for those you don't care about ratings.
Colors meaning
Unrated | ||
Hover | ||
User rating | ||
Community rating |
Web service
The XMLWebService has been updated in order to allow to retrieve or update rating via WS in a similar way to how FolksonomyTagging works.
Either by the new /rating resource for submitting/retriving one specific rating:
wget --user=<editor name> --password=<password> --post-data=id=8f6bd1e4-fbe1-4f50-aa9b-94c450ec0f11\&entity=artist\&rating=3 http://test.musicbrainz.org/ws/1/rating
or by using the new inc parameters ratings, user-ratings
with the artist, label, release or tracks resources as described in XMLWebService.