What exactly is the logic behind the Star rating system in Plex?
Certain clients allow half-star ratings whilst others only allow full star ratings. In effect, Plex uses two completely different rating systems depending on the client. So ratings out of 5 or ratings out of 10.
Sorry, it’s at best stupid and at worst lazy.
I wouldn’t mind so much if the Trakt webhook even got close to correlating to what has been assigned in Plex. I can hardly raise it as an issue with Trakt though, whilst Plex apparently has two rating systems.
Can we please decide if we are going for ratings out of 5 or ratings out of 10 and make it consistent across the Plex ecosystem?
EDIT. On Ios where half star ratings are allowed then Trakt updates instantly and match exactly.
5* =10 ot trakt
4.5* = 9
3.5* = 7
…etc
I just changed a movie rating 8 times with that pattern and Trakt updates accurately within seconds.
The ratings are technically out of 10, so each star represents 2. Some clients cannot do half starts. This is a limitation but something we are working on.
Well its the web client that cant do half ratings.
Am I mistaken but I’m sure it used to?
Anyway, great to know it’s being looked at especially as the edit to the last post indicates that if 1/2 star ratings are there then Trakt matches perfectly. I appreciate the input as always.
Although you can’t set half starts with Web, the value is stored as a number so Web shows the correct rating (rounded down). I don’t know what Trakt is doing, but web showing half or full starts shouldn’t matter as the info should use the actual value. The stars are just a visual representation.
Edit - I see your edit. Setting a full start should still update. Again, I have no idea why Trakt wouldn’t update just because you set a full start instead of half.
Understood but what I’m saying is that because the web app in effect uses a rating out of 5 (and sorry if there are only 5 possibilities that’s my opinion of a rating out of 5) that’s when the inconsistencies arise.
Especially with Trakt.
No big deal if it’s being worked on and I can use the mobile app to set the ratings in the meantime.
As I said it matches perfectly in Trakt so no issues there.
As a side note, I have never really understood 10/10 ratings. I mean I find it difficult to determine between a 6/10 and a 7/10, but it is what it is and consistency would be nice.
On a totally unrelated topic and whilst I’m not hijacking someone else’s thread whatever happened to the dev/mod/ninja @atrus ? I was browsing some of my old posts earlier and realized I haven’t seen him around for a few years.
Yeah again Trakt works perfectly. It’s the Plex rounding down that causes the issues with Trakt.
I mean if you can only assign 1,2,3,4, or 5 stars in the web app Trakt can only see what its being told.
To be fair it may just be my perception. I personally see a movie with a rating of
9 or 10 as 5*
8 or 7 as 4*
Anyway no big deal as I can get an exact out of 10 rating synced to Trakt in the mobile apps for now.
Finally thanks again for all the hard work you guys do. I see some of the posts like this one
For me at least Plex works far better now than ever.
I appreciate your time on what’s basically a trivial thing (more so of late.)
the 5 star ratings are likely based upon the 5 stars rating system of mp3.
I totally agree that all clients should have access to half stars, and its extremely annoying that the web client in particular is unable to understand half stars.
The other major annoyance is with FILTERS which only have the 5 stars (no half stars), so we are unable to have finer grain control over playlists.
Totally agree that it would be awesome to have half star ratings everywhere. It’s pretty frustrating that the web client does not show half stars as I rely on them heavily when rating my collection.
Setting a full start should still update. Again, I have no idea why Trakt wouldn’t update just because you set a full start instead of half.
