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So I'll take your word for it...
I mean, it sounds good but I imagine I speak for may users on this board when I say:
"I have no idea what to do with such information."



Well, the intent was to compress the time-since-last-played, which is a 32 bit quantity, down into 14 bits, 1) without sacrificing ordering (ie. small numbers should still be small, larger numbers should still be larger) and 2) without having too large of an 'ages ago' category (which was the problem with the previous method).

I guess the point is, it doesn't matter what the numbers really *are* as long as you know that things you haven't listened to in a long time have higher numbers than things you've listened to recently. That's all you care about anyway.

Of course, all this is moot if they've now moved to carrying the whole 32 bits around.

--pj