[Standards] XEP-0118: music rating?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

L.R.N wrote:
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre-2 wrote:
>> Is that of interest to more than 1% of users?
>>
> Users are interested in nothing. They may use the possibility once it is
> available, or they may not, but until then they really don't care.
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre-2 wrote:
>> What kind of information do such plugins usually communicate?
>>
> Depends on the way they get this information. And since there is no such
> standard (like "Inter-Process Now-Playing Information Exchange Protocol" or
> something), a fair amount of different schemes exists. Ranging from direct
> message sending to complex plugin interconnections and third-party gluing
> applications. 

That's "how", not "what". I'm interested in learning exactly which data 
fields they communicate. For example, do they really communicate 
information about (as you say) the "player name (and version), format 
(codec/container), bitrate, file size, sample rate, channels etc." If 
so, why? When I want to know what tune you're playing, do I really care 
about the number of channels ("gosh, you're into quadraphonic too?! 
kewl!") or the bitrate? That's geeky stuff that 99% of real people don't 
care about.

You could include all that kind of thing as extended information, but I 
don't see a good reason to include it in the core data format.

> It also depends on messenger processing power: some of them
> can handle variable data and format it into a string, others just display it
> 'as is'. By the way, XEP-0118 does not defines how exacly the information
> should be presented to end user.

Correct. Our specifications don't define or limit GUIs. That's the job 
of client developers.

> Peter Saint-Andre-2 wrote:
>> You may be right. But first I think we need to do some research to see 
>> what information is really of interest.
>>
> What kind of research exactly? Internet-poll? Player's nowplaying capability
> test?

Maybe a user poll or at least research into existing "now-playing" 
plugins as I discussed above.

Peter