A true comedy story (from my life)

I was listening to my music library on my phone on shuffle. A song came up that I hadn't heard before, but thought it was interesting. I was going to make a note of it so I could listen to it again later, but I remembered that my music player had a "rate song" feature that I had disabled in the options.

"Ah," I thought, "If I enable the rating feature, then any time I want to make sure I remember a song later, I can just rate it. It'd be a lot faster and easier than opening the notes app and writing it down every time."

So I went into the options and enabled the "rate" function. It warned me that it might make the app use slightly more CPU, but I figured I could try it, and if it makes my phone slower/more unstable, I could always disable it again later.

I went back to the main interface, and each song had an empty star icon next to it, like this: ☆

I tapped on the star on the song I wanted to remember, and nothing happened; it just started playing the song again. I tried long-pressing on it, nothing. I tried everything I could think of, I double-tapped the star, I went into the help menu, every other sub menu, nothing, I saw no reference to the "rate" function other than the option to turn the function on or off.

I looked it up, read the readme on the project page, and noticed that in the screenshots, the interface looked different than mine. In the "now playing" section, every song has five ☆s you can tap, to rate a song from one ★☆☆☆☆ to five ★★★★★

So I tried updating the app, and that fixed it. The version I had, for whatever reason, had the option to enable the function but didn't yet actually have the functionality.

So, after several minutes of trial and error, I could finally rate the song, but I didn't need to: while figuring shit out, I had listened to the song so many times that (1) I couldn't possibly forget the name of it now, and (2) it was starting to get on my nerves 🙃