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08/28/2005, 3:55pm, EDT
Sunday, August 28th
A look into the stats behind iTunes' Party Shuffle
OmniNerd has an interesting discussion on the stastics behind iTunes' Party Shuffle feature, which allows users to play back higher-rated songs more often. The author looks at how star ratings affect playback counts: "For the rating-biased trial the preference algorithm appears to be linear from 12% to 27% for the rated songs. Moving from the 5-star rating downward, the linear preference declines around 4% with each step down in rating, but doubles over the drop from 1-star to unrated with a fall of 8%. While one star may seem like the lowest rating, no-rating proved the black sheep of the lot."
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Or, maybe not. But with this info, I can complete work on my thesis, "What people do when they have no life, plenty of time on their hands, and lack any type of ability to go out into the world"
Weird choice, apple. But at least now we know how it works.
You have songs on your iPod that should never play? You are a clever fellow, sir. I would have never thought of that. I don't have an iPod, but using it as a repository for songs I never listen to... I'm guessing Apple never thought of that.