Amarok Rating Stats

By EricMesa

November 12, 2012 - 3 minutes read - 567 words

Recently I was looking at this old post and the screenshots of Amarok 1.4 reminded me of something I loved about that version of Amarok - the stats that would display when you were playing a song - like if you were playing a Five Iron Frenzy song it would tell you your three favorite (or most played) Five Iron Frenzy songs. That functionality never made it back into the Amarok 2 series. So when I was looking through the Amarok scripts in the script installer I came across Rating Statistics. It basically gave me everything I wanted other than being linked to the currently playing song. It allows you to search your favorite songs based on all kinds of criteria like number of plays, user-assigned rating, or auto-score. You can also assign some weights to it and get your best songs based on that weighting. Here are the stats about my library:

[caption id=“attachment_5682” align=“aligncenter” width=“522”] Amarok Stats[/caption]

You can see I’ve barely rated any of my songs. I just rate some when they really catch my fancy. Otherwise I let Amarok do it automatically. Given the length of the average pop and rock song I’m not surprised that the average song length is 3min 38s. Here’s how I weighted my scores:

[caption id=“attachment_5683” align=“aligncenter” width=“522”] Amarok Stats Weights[/caption]

I weighted playcount most heavily since I figured if I like a song a lot I’ll play it a lot. Then I gave the auto-generated score the second most weight because it’s correlated to the playcount. My assigned rating has less weight because I may have once really liked a song, but now don’t care for it as much. And the length gives some weight because longer songs might be listened to less. Here are my top scoring songs based on that weight:

[caption id=“attachment_5684” align=“aligncenter” width=“471”] Amarok Stats - Top Scoring Songs[/caption]

No surprises there. All songs that I really love. Taking a look at artists with the same criteria:

[caption id=“attachment_5685” align=“aligncenter” width=“471”] Amarok Stats - Top Scoring Artists[/caption]

There shouldn’t really be any surprises in there for anyone that follows my last.fm posts. Next up is top albums:

[caption id=“attachment_5686” align=“aligncenter” width=“471”] Amarok Stats - Top Scoring Albums[/caption]

The biggest surprise here is the Pizzicato Five albums because I don’t really listen to it very much anymore and I thought most of my listens were with Rhythmbox anyway. Next I just wanted to take a look at how the list changes when looking at the play count rather than the weighted score. Here are the top tracks:

[caption id=“attachment_5687” align=“aligncenter” width=“471”] Amarok Stats - Top Songs by Play count[/caption]

I was a little surprised by those playcount numbers. Here are the artist play counts:

[caption id=“attachment_5688” align=“aligncenter” width=“471”] Amarok Stats - Top Artists by Play Count[/caption]

I’m a little surprised at how high Switchfoot is. Finally albums. In a sense this is one of the most “cheatingest” stats because Mario The Music can easily win having 78 tracks (some of which are just 30 seconds long).

[caption id=“attachment_5689” align=“aligncenter” width=“471”] Amarok Stats - Top Albums by Play Count[/caption]

And to finish off this post, since I know Dan is one of the primary readers - stats on two artists he and I would share in common:

[caption id=“attachment_5692” align=“aligncenter” width=“464”] Amarok Stats - Five Iron Frenzy[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_5693” align=“aligncenter” width=“464”] Amarok Stats - Anamanaguchi[/caption]