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So what EXACTLY does autosong.Ninjam's "histogram" statistic count?
Submitted by doorthe on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 17:03.
I was curious, so I compared the before/after histogram rating when clicking on a jam link in histogram mode, and letting the entire song load (I open MP3's in M$ Media Player).
What I saw was, that it adds about 900 points to the current number!
So histogram mode is definitely NOT counting one click for every time a song gets played.
I didn't do any further investigation, for example, letting a song load only halfway through and then closing the window, then checking the stats change, etc.
But for sure, somethingn is being counted, that is NOT solitary clicks. Could it be "seconds played", like Diek suggested in the "Musician's ratings" thread?
Also, how does this affect the poll, and opinions about it, on the front page? Since it seems that there is no pure "number of plays' statistic being counted over at autosong.ninjam.
I don't know what a
I don't know what a Histogram really is.
But I do know a CandyGram brings people lotsa joy.
A lot of the newer survey
A lot of the newer survey sites (not even that new) allow you to see where votes come from, and who voted. Like i tried to say before, until we can see that, the number of votes is a pretty useless statistic. I would also like to know why people voted for a particular jam.
Deja Vu. :)
Deja Vu. :)
Thanks for the bump,
Thanks for the bump, nextday.
So no network-types around here know what the autosong.ninjam thing counts in histogram mode, then, eh? I thought for sure someone would. It must be one of them mysteries of the universe, like plants that eat insects, or whales and dolphins.
I got bored enough to try it
I got bored enough to try it out on a "zero scoring" recording. Playing it once pushed the score up to 30. After playing it again, I couldn't find it -- there are rather a lot of recordings and no decent way to search except by name... and I'd chosen one with only regular jammers on it, without thinking! (It was pretty good, Thrak on drums.) I'm not sure if it does some strange calculation or simply add 30 every time someone plays it and takes 1 off each day to age off the "votes".
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...But how do you play with people, for people. Playing fast around the drums is one thing. But to play with people for others, to listen to, that's something else. That's a whole other world. -- Tony Williams
I definitely saw a
I definitely saw a correlation between track length and score-per-play, though. I'd suggest trying the "zero-score" experiment on a few tracks of uniformly increasing length (say five minutes, ten minutes, etc.), and of course, remembering jam ensemble!