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My star ratings disappear after updating iTunes

I am about to be done with apple forever. I have spent many hours going through my entire music collection and rating all my songs in addition to other cataloging activities. Whenever I update iTunes that information disappears. It's been a while since I last updated so I can't remember if all the data (meta-data if that's the correct term) is lost but ALL the star ratings have disappeared both times I updated (was it 2 or 3 times I fell for this?). Can anyone tell me how to update iTunes (as I assume we're supposed to do to keep current) without losing all my ratings (and I think some playlists, but mostly the ratings). Do I have to do something special to keep my star ratings? I shouldn't HAVE to do a **** thing for this not to happen. Fix this Apple. I've loved my ipods for all these years when everything is organized like I like it (5-star, 4-star, 5-star within-certain-genres playlists, etc.) but if I go through and rate ALL my songs ONE last time and it all disappears again, I will seriously ditch Apple forever and trade in all my iPods and just use my Android phone from here on out. Music Bee seems to be a front runner, I wonder if they have this problem.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Apr 21, 2019 12:27 AM

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Posted on Apr 21, 2019 3:17 AM

What do you when you update iTunes? A couple of builds may have turned off the option to show stars, but that can be turned back on and the original data should still be there. iTunes ratings are not stored in the songs themselves, so if you rebuild the library by deleting and then reimporting media the ratings will be lost.


See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash - Apple Community for a possible way to restore the most recent version of your database that included all of the ratings. Backup your library so that it can be restored if anything goes missing.


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Apr 21, 2019 3:17 AM in response to Henry_J_N

What do you when you update iTunes? A couple of builds may have turned off the option to show stars, but that can be turned back on and the original data should still be there. iTunes ratings are not stored in the songs themselves, so if you rebuild the library by deleting and then reimporting media the ratings will be lost.


See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash - Apple Community for a possible way to restore the most recent version of your database that included all of the ratings. Backup your library so that it can be restored if anything goes missing.


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My star ratings disappear after updating iTunes

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