Hi, it seems it's impossible to get rid of album rating in the new iTunes.
How do you go about doing that? This tag doesn't seem to be external, and it seems the iTunes doesn't give any easy option to get rid of this infernal feature.
Please advise.
These four scripts can override or reset the auto-rating behaviour:
The Clear... scripts change the default 0% rating which allows auto-rating into a 1% rating which shows as no stars.
The Reset... scripts change the 1% value back to the default of 0% allowing auto-rating to take place again.
None of the scripts will change other manually set values, which will be 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% or 100% for one to five stars respectively.
Your screenshot fails to display album rating alongside rating. Doing so should make it clearer what is going on. As noted earlier:
"In addition I believe iTunes may sometimes transfer auto ratings from a device into real ratings in iTunes."
It might not be the auto rated albums that are causing you a problem so much as manually rated albums that you don't want to be rated. As before:
... unrated/zero rated tracks gain an auto rating if there is an album rating, and unrated/zero rated albums gain an auto rating based on any rated tracks. (Specifically the mean average of rated tracks from the album.)
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These four scripts can override or reset the auto-rating behaviour:
The Clear... scripts change the default 0% rating which allows auto-rating into a 1% rating which shows as no stars.
The Reset... scripts change the 1% value back to the default of 0% allowing auto-rating to take place again.
None of the scripts will change other manually set values, which will be 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% or 100% for one to five stars respectively.
Your screenshot fails to display album rating alongside rating. Doing so should make it clearer what is going on. As noted earlier:
"In addition I believe iTunes may sometimes transfer auto ratings from a device into real ratings in iTunes."
It might not be the auto rated albums that are causing you a problem so much as manually rated albums that you don't want to be rated. As before:
... unrated/zero rated tracks gain an auto rating if there is an album rating, and unrated/zero rated albums gain an auto rating based on any rated tracks. (Specifically the mean average of rated tracks from the album.)
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You cannot remove album rating as such. It is an internal iTunes property. Try Edit > Preferences > General tab and turn off Show: Star ratings to remove both album and track ratings if that works for you. If auto-generated album ratings are the issue see Handling grey stars - Apple Community.
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Only one track from each album gets updated. Because the new 1% rating value is applied to all tracks from the same album when another track from that album is inspected there is no action required. Change the view and come back. Are you still seeing auto album ratings?
1% displays as no stars. The ResetAlbumAutoRating script changes the value back to 0% which re-enables autorating.
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The ClearAutoTrackRating script would clear the grey stars in the right hand column. The script you've already run has removed grey stars from the left hand column. Note that while you can adjust track rating using rating column if you want to adjust album rating in this view you need to enable album artwork and make the column wide enough to show the album rating to the right of the artwork.
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Rating is a numeric value in the range 0-100. Zero allows for auto-rating. If you want to clear the actual album ratings this can be achieved with a batch selection in the Song Info dialog. What software is that shown above? If you're referring to the 1s in the left-hand column then that must be Album Rating rather than Track Rating, and shows the script has done what it is intended to do. If there has been some other effect you'll have to spell it out to me.
Btw, just noticed that they also did away with duplicates.
Is that the recent issue with bonus cloudy duplicates that some people were seeing, or something else?
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Here:
This kinda shows that your script didn't work as supposed.
The are all the tracks that are problematic for me.
I think that I'm able to clear the track ratings in the iPod though, they show there and it lets me change them.
By doing so, the album rating should go away.
iTunes doesn't let me set a rating to 0 neither!!
Dim iTunesApp
Dim playlist
Dim FullPath
Dim tracks
Dim track
Set iTunesApp = CreateObject("iTunes.Application.1")
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set playlist = iTunesApp.LibrarySource.Playlists.ItemByName("AAA_Fix_rate_01")
If playlist is Nothing Then
iTunesApp.CreatePlaylist("AAA_Fix_rate_01")
Set playlist = iTunesApp.LibrarySource.Playlists.ItemByName("AAA_Fix_rate_01")
Else
playlist.delete
iTunesApp.CreatePlaylist("AAA_Fix_rate_01")
Set playlist = iTunesApp.LibrarySource.Playlists.ItemByName("AAA_Fix_rate_01")
End If
On error resume next
count_Artist = 0
count_Name = 0
count_AlbumArtist = 0
count_Album = 0
count_Genre = 0
count_Year = 0
count_Rating = 0
count_PlayedCount = 0
count_SkippedCount = 0
Obs = 0
Miss = 0
If FSO.FileExists("D:\iTunes\..\MP3\A\Ah Cama-Sotz - Isfahan (2015 Version).mp3") Then
Obs = Obs+1
playlist.AddFile("D:\iTunes\..\MP3\A\Ah Cama-Sotz - Isfahan (2015 Version).mp3")
WScript.Echo "Track " & Obs & " - " & "D:\iTunes\..\MP3\A\Ah Cama-Sotz - Isfahan (2015 Version).mp3"
Set track = playlist.Tracks.Item(Obs)
Has_Art = False
If (True) and track.Rating<>"0" Then
WScript.Echo "Changing Rating"
track.Rating = 0
count_Rating = count_Rating+1
WScript.Echo "Rating " & track.Rating
Else
WScript.Echo "Not changing Rating"
End If
WScript.Echo
Else
miss = miss + 1
Wscript.Echo "File not found!"
End If
Wscript.Echo "Artist: " & count_Artist & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & count_Name & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "AlbumArtist: " & count_AlbumArtist & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "Album: " & count_Album & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "Genre: " & count_Genre & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "Year: " & count_Year & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "Rating: " & count_Rating & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "PlayedCount: " & count_PlayedCount & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "SkippedCount: " & count_SkippedCount & " tags modified"
Wscript.Echo "Missing files: " & miss
Wscript.StdOut.Write vbNewLine & "Press ENTER to continue"
Do While Not WScript.StdIn.AtEndOfLine
Input = WScript.StdIn.Read(1)
Loop
The output
Use File > Library > Show Duplicate Items > Same Album to show duplicate tracks. See Duplicate songs in iTunes - Apple Community for my advice on cleaning those up.
iTunes doesn't scan for updates made to media files by third party software. I've a script called UpdateTagInfo that attempts to get iTunes to process such changes, but it is generally best to make a tool that works directly with iTunes if you can. There are plenty you can use as a starting point at http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp.
If you're talking about eliminating multiple images stored within a single track's tag that is something that could be handled in a script. Working with multiple images isn't easy in the 12.10.0.7 and seems somewhat erratic. I appear to be able to add, rearrange and remove images, but then one of the tracks will reset to what it had before or a single image when played. May be related to the fact that Apple Music is active in this library.
The grey stars in the second screenshot up the page show auto track ratings. Those items have a zero in their rating field and are gaining an auto track rating of 60% or three stars from the manual album rating of 60%. If you don't use album rating then you can remove the unwanted manual values easily enough with Song Info in batch mode, or you can modify one of the reset rating scripts to update all non-zero values rather than only when the current value is 1.
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But I don't want to get rid of tracks rating, just album ratings.
So, you're saying that it's not possible to set all album ratings to blank?
In former versions it was possible, did they do away with this other feature?, like the many others that
disappeared from iTunes new versions?
Actually, it is the grey stars that I'm talking about, how do I remove them?
It processes selected tracks, affecting the albums those tracks are part of. You can run it against the whole library or a current playlist by selecting all, or nothing in the current view, but it may be best to test with a selection first to be sure it does what you need.
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Ok, I understand the script now, it's running on the selected playlist.
Question, how come it's not resetting some tracks? I can still see a lot of greyed out tracks
after it ran on a playlist?
Is it because it needs to be run on the full library first?
It's giving me a message that some tracks didn't need clearing.
Too late, I already ran on the whole library. This should be what I need.
I hate that iTunes forces these stupid auto-ratings on me.
But, not a big deal if it destroys my data, as I have backup of track ratings under the genre tag.
Last question, your script sets the album rating to 1%.
Is it possible to make it 0% or blank?
It still didn't finish.
Reason why I want to clear album rating is cause I have an automatic playlist that shows tracks that have favorite in the genre, but don't have 3 stars. That means I need to review them and set their stars to 3 (to me 3 stars means a favorite.)
Or vice-versa, tracks that have 3 starts I will add favorite to the genre.
Now, if they are automatically rated by album, this defeats my automatic playlist, it's showing tracks that are not my favorites, and I can't make them go away.
I see, so you're saying that setting them to 0% makes iTunes re-rate them automatically again. That's bad.
How to get rid of album rating?