Slice the pie

rach1989

I went as low as 82% with 3 stars, then got 88% with only 2 stars? Im a little confused by that. Oh well. Its all over the place today

claire6hy

im only 82% how can i improve it?????

rach1989

I have no idea Claire, it will only change again once you get the accuracy up!

claire6hy

the highest i have had my accuracy is 89%, but since it changed, ive not got higher than 85%

rach1989

Yeah im not getting higher than 86% today either and keep dropping to 2 stars... Im worried il be on vouchers soon

rach1989

Grrr, gettin sick of this now. I rated a track 8 coz i really liked it and dropped 5% in accuracy!

jasonwatkins

it's still going to be at least a fortnight before it settles - if it settles at all.

the problem is really a double-edged sword - if you rate between 4-7 your accuracy will go up and your stars will go down. if you rate 0-3 and 8-10 your stars will likely go up but your accuracy will go down.

and since stars still do seem to be linked to accuracy to a degree, it's actually near impossible to find the middle ground.

nikki2002-2008

Hi everyone as I can see we are all struggling with STP big time I'm wondering if it is to do with their recent good press but god knows well I have slaved away for ages today went from 3 stars and ended on earning vouchers:eek: think this new system is really baaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddd it will put people off so hopefully if we stick at it then it may get better. Heres hoping anyhow:think:

sarahs999

I think these ideas are helpful under the new system:

1. Use the full range of marks 1-9 (and I guess 10, though I don't think that's going to happen often).

2. Your accuracy and star count is only calculated on the past 30 tracks. Go into your scout history and look at what you've been rating. Got no twos and lots of eights? Adjust your scoring so you're more evenly spread.

3. Don't think that this means you can't score lots of mid-range songs. You can. The software knows that many songs will fall in this range. Therefore probably 80% of your songs in the past 30 tracks can be rated 4-7. Just make sure there are some that fall outside that range too.

4. remember you're being paid to SCOUT, not to praise only the music you like. You have to try to anticipate what's going to appeal commercially; that's what the site is all about. So if you really liked a song but you know you have weird taste in music, there's not much point in marking it really high. Not only will your accuracy suffer, as other scouts are unlikely to agree, but the band is unlikely to make it commercially, adn that's what your're trying to pick out.

darlo_fan

Hmmm, listening to a piece of music atm 6:58 long - there was no noise for the first minute, currently at 5 mins and it has a little bit of music, very quiet, and not a great deal of depth, am going to have to rate at either a 0 or 1 and I dread to think how my accuracy will fare

I am listening to the whole song in case it suddenly offers something.

LOL, nope it offered nothing.

Artist - The Flickering Light
Track - Vaknar Sakta

Rated a 1, and didnt lose too much accuracy thankgod