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[Si Dedman <176696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David - a workaround, and a coarse one at that, but:
If you're anything like me in the way you use song ratings, you'll find you don't use 1 or 2 star because you either don't bother rating (or listening to) songs you don't like, or you don't have them or delete them. If this is the case (and it's an easy check) then you may be able to easily blanket-tag your music with 1* and hers with 2*.

Like i say, not ideal, but potentially a quick workaround.

Simon

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Title:
  Allow for file tagging, ala F-spot

Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application:
  Confirmed
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rhythmbox

  Here is my user case:

  I recently started sharing my computer with my girlfriend. We don't
  have one user for each of us (in short) because that's the way she
  wants it, so we share most of our stuff.

  A while ago we started merging our photo collections and we decided to
  do so with F-spot. I tend to be quite selective with my pictures and
  delete all the ones I don't like, while she keeps tons of them, so I
  was worried that her pictures would keep me from even finding mine.
  That was not the case, as I soon found I could just tag the pictures I
  like as "David's favourites" and the ones she likes as "Susana's
  favourites". That way I can watch only mine when I'm alone, and we can
  watch together the ones we BOTH like by looking for "David's" and
  "Susana's", or even easily delete the pictures neither of us likes by
  excluding both tags.

  I was astonished by how powerful the tagging system really was.

  I would like to be able to do the same with our music. Our taste in
  music is quite different and most times I don't want to listen to her
  music if I'm not with her, so basically I'm the one who uses Rhythmbox
  and she plays her music by dragging the folders to Totem. I would like
  her to use RB, though, and would like to have it tell the music I like
  apart from the music SHE likes.

  Is there any way to let Rhythmbox use tags just like f-spot does? I
  think it would be very easy to put it into the GUI... just include a
  "tag" option in the browser, alongside with the artist and album, and
  a right-click menu option that lets you add a tag.

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