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brodiejaeger Author

Level 1

9 points

Need to remove album ratings in itunes

I need to remove the album ratings. They are REALLY annoying and ruining my playlists. Please help! Why have album ratings AND song ratings if the album ratings are just going to override the song ratings?

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Posted on Nov 11, 2008 2:35 PM

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Chris CA

Level 10

82,476 points

Posted on Nov 11, 2008 2:59 PM

The Album rating does not override the Song ratings.

You can rate both.
If the album/song rating shows hollow/outlined stars, that is based on the ratings you gave the other (Song or Album).
If the rating stars are solid, that is the rating you gave that specific item (Album or song).

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33 replies

Mar 7, 2010 2:13 PM in response to christurchinski

mega-thanks! that was bothering the be-jesus out of me

Mar 29, 2010 12:49 PM in response to brodiejaeger

I just re-installed iTunes and immediately set to view as a list since I don't like the grid view. As such I know that I have never set an album rating. Yet some of my albums have ratings which leads iTunes to implicitly rate all the songs on it. I've done the work around and reset/cleared those ratings but the idea that I have to manually unrate over 5000 songs is ridiculous.

Apple: please give us the option to just shut this feature off. I find "intuitive" features to be bad enough when I can shut them off, but to be forced to use it?

X-Wide P

Level 1

4 points

Apr 9, 2010 1:16 AM in response to brodiejaeger

Thank you JPod28 - I only had one album that had the dreaded ghostly stars but it was driving me mad - excellent solution for PC/Windows users, thanks again

Need to remove album ratings in itunes