How do you usually rate albums? What metric are you using to ensure the score is consistent with the rest of the albums? Personally, I'm using a formula I made up (image), and so far it's giving me pretty decent results. The filler penalty thing is dispensable.
Album rating
How do you usually rate albums?
I don't.
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I've been thinking about it and I've come to the conclusion that what I've done is kinda gay.
rate each individual song and then average it all out
rate each individual song
I prefer to base the rating on which songs I keep in my playlist and the number of songs I consider masterpieces
Good
Meh
Bad
what determines the base score? and is the bonus just whatever you feel like?
This but above Good there's also Really Good and Fantastic
how I rate albums
one I can sit through in one session without running into filler tracks = 10/10
One where 1/3rd of the tracks or less are filler = 8/10
One where half the tracks are filler = 6/10
one where all the tracks feel like filler and I can't sit through it = 0/10
I either like the album or I don't
No idea, but Ziggy Stardust is my all time favorite, maybe the closer to it it gets, the better ?
I rate it one to 10 based on how much I liked it. I don’t really care too much about my rating though, I just use them to get recommendations on RateYourMusic.
the base score is calculated in the first half of the formula (total saved tracks+0.5 top tier tracks/total tracks). The bonus is the album cohesion/concept rated in a 0-2 scale that adds to that base score. to avoid adding a +2 bonus to a +8/10 album, this bonus is escalated with the second part of the formula. P.ex. a 9/10 base score and a 2/2 score doesn't add to 11/10, it adds to 9,5/10
rate it withouta freaking math formula
the worst part is that I fucking hate maths
I like your idea. It's a solid base for
you can't use absolute numbers in a formula like this
you have to make them relative to something else by normalizing them in some way (most likely minutes)
for instance, take Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother (five tracks, 1 track is 20 min, 50 minutes in total) and compare it to Green Days Insomniac (15 tracks, each 2 minute, 30 minutes). If you only save one track of the five listed from AHM, the 20 minute long title track, you've still saved 40% of the album. But if you save 3 tracks from Insominiac you've only saved 20% of the album, yet in your formula Green Days Album gets a better rating (every other variable staying the same)
ATH
(1+0.5x1)/5x10+0-1 = 29
Insomniacs
(3+0.5x3)/5x10+0-1=89
the P is 1 since both have the same filler ratio of 0.8 (12/15 and 4/5)
I pretty much only rate 10/10 an album without any filler, no skips.
I kinda don't see the point of rating albums that have filler tracks.
thats true though, insomniac is better than shit floyd
in the case of an album with few songs that are long (for example lysflath), maybe the way to rate it is to divide the tracks into different portions or movements and rate them separatedly. These abums tend to be difficult to rate anyways.
If I like it I keep it on my drive, if I don't, I delete it.
yeah i'm fucking unemployed
so an album only can be a 10/10 or a 0/10?
Why the hell is N decreasing in N_i?
Also, your condition for P is wrong. P can't take values 1 and 0.5 at the same time, which happens whenever (T-G)/T > 0.7 I think you meant P=0.5 if 0.5 < (T-G)/T leq 0.7
Your math is wrong, you should divide the first term by 15 because Insomniac has 15 tracks. Then it has a score of 20, which sounds about right when compared to ATH's 29.
Also, you do notice that N is not bounded by 0 or 10, right? Goddamn, this thread is making me mad with all the mistakes.
Yes, it is. If N_i=10, (10-N_i)=0, being N_i=N=10
You're right i think
N it's not decreasing. Only decreases the final bonus. Goddamn, this anon is making me mad with all the mistakes.
No it's not. Suppose T=G=TG, you get N = 15. Now assume G=TG=B=0, you get N = -1. Also, it wasn't clear at all from the image that N_i is the first piece of the formula, so I had no way of knowing what it meant. Do better.
for me
not for me
Unless B is not a free parameter and you adjust it to make N bounded. In that case, specify the formula for B.
N_i= (G+0.5*TG)/T. If G+0.5*TG>T, N>10, but in that case you are not using this formula because the album is already a 10/10
Rating albums is for faggots that have no personality
Also, B is a free parameter going from 0 to 2, but when N_i tend to 10, B parameter is multiplied to 0
really like
probably going to listen to it a lot
kind of like
probably going to listen to it occasionally
its ok
ambivalent, dont hate it but probably not going to listen to it much or at all. might revisit after a while though.
bad
dislike it and will almost certainly never listen to it again
new albums will often switch between the first two categories on further listens, going in either direction, but if initial listening puts an album in one of the last two categories, it almost always stays there. putting a numerical value on any of this is futile, the only purpose of that is to show other people, it can have no benefit to me.
Post-punk fans really are something, especially fans of This Heat and Pere Ubu and the like.
I listen to it. And then I score it based on how much I generally enjoyed the album.
7-10: I enjoy it.
5-6: I'm indifferent to it.
4 or Below: I don't enjoy it.
If my system is too complex let me know and I'll try and break it down further.
Shit
Kind of bad
Mediocre
Alright
Good
Very good
Great
Masterpiece
I tried to make a rating formula because my aoty ratings were a bit inconsistent. OfcI don't use this nerd ass formula in my daily life, I just enjoy the music
I only have one semi-acoustic designation: I only consider an album a 10 if it has at least one 10 and no songs below a 9, just because an album of straight 10s doesn't exist. Otherwise, pretty normal 1-10 bullshit.