Itunes automatic rating

This was something that just stung me. Using a smart playlist, I only load songs onto my ipod that have a 1 star rating. Just a quick way of being able to take songs or albums off, or add ones quickly. But I just went to update my list (get some old now boring songs off), and after making some tracks zero ratings, the songs wouldn't remove it self from the list.

If I went into "Grid" view, and then "Albums", and highlighted all albums, then the "Album Rating" option showed up in the right-click menu. From there I made them all zero ratings. I was now able to go back and adjust individual songs correctly, and they dropped out of my listing.

I can see some people liking this "Feature". But i'm certainly in the boat of people wanting this as something you can turn off if you want...

Hope this method works for others.

This was something that just stung me. Using a smart playlist, I only load songs onto my ipod that have a 1 star rating. Just a quick way of being able to take songs or albums off, or add ones quickly. But I just went to update my list (get some old now boring songs off), and after making some tracks zero ratings, the songs wouldn't remove it self from the list.

If I went into "Grid" view, and then "Albums", and highlighted all albums, then the "Album Rating" option showed up in the right-click menu. From there I made them all zero ratings. I was now able to go back and adjust individual songs correctly, and they dropped out of my listing.

I can see some people liking this "Feature". But i'm certainly in the boat of people wanting this as something you can turn off if you want...

Hope this method works for others.

I hate this feature. I don't need Itunes rating my albums for me. The automatic rating system has completely messed up my own personal system. I had a smart play list that would keep track of songs that I still hadn't rated (new music) now with the updated album rating feature it has totally screwed everything up and has basically made my smart lists completely worthless. There should be a way to turn this feature off. Hopefully in some future fix or update they will get allow for the option to turn off automatic album rating.