Risocast is a taste identity, not a quality scoreboard. You save what matters to you, rate how strongly it landed, and optionally mark a small set of works that actually shifted your taste.
The first five levels describe how much something resonated — from a light save to a defining favorite. This is separate from influence: a five-star pick is not automatically a “taste pivot.”
The sixth position is optional and special: it marks media that reoriented your taste — the before-and-after works you keep orbiting. Only a limited number can be active across your whole library.
Purple marks the before-and-after works: media that shifted your taste direction and now sit at the center of what you consume around them. Capped at 15 across your whole library.
Purple influence is capped at 15 items across your entire library.
Older libraries may still show silver or gold from a previous model. New logging uses five strength stars plus optional purple influence.
Legacy value from a previous tiered star model. New influence stars use only purple.
Legacy value from a previous tiered star model. New influence stars use only purple.
Your taste card is a visual fingerprint built from the dominant colors of your logged media. Higher-influence items claim more space. The result is a color map of your aesthetic — immediately readable, impossible to fake.
A 0–100 measure of how far your listening, watching, and playing sits from the mainstream. It's a descriptor, not a badge. High obscurity doesn't mean better taste — it means different taste.