How to get rid of album rating?

iTunes is a bit poorly designed. I mean, it has great features, but so many things broke along the way. I don't think they planned it very carefully leading to a lot of frustration among users.

At least I love the capability to use vbscript with iTunes, I create lots and lots of scripts to organize my music. For example, I created a script that checks if the image for tracks that belong to the same album is identical, if it's not, then I pick the best image and attach as cover in the tracks where the image is not exactly the same.

I also do the opposite process, if two tracks have the same artwork, I check if the album tag is really the same.

That and a whole lot of other things. It's very tiring to clean up tags, standardize them, when your library is so large, and mp3 tagging is not an exact science, so many tags may not be right, covers may not be right, year may not be right.

The amount of mp3 files put out there by the world creates a lot of chaos and misinformation when it comes to tags.

Not at all, I don't to clear the tracks that I manually rated at 3 starts, that would be a disaster.

Your code didn't work as supposed, what I want is to clear album ratings, not any tracks rating.

But I think I now understand this issue. There are some tracks that appear with 3 stars rating ,

that I never set to 3 stars. Their album rating is probably based on these track ratings.

So, question for you, so I can undo what your script did, now that I know how to fix this.

How can I undo what your script did, is it possible to go back without destroying anything?

no, what I'm saying is that you can no longer display duplicates, I think they based that on artist/title. Two tracks with the same artist/title could be shown as duplicates, using Display Duplicates.

You can no longer delete multiple covers, and here's why this triggers me. I can remove covers outside of itunes, but then itunes doesn't recognize tags that were removed, it keeps them in the tracks.

For example, you remove the album tag Into the dragon outside of itunes, itunes doesn't update it to blank.

You remove the cover of album Into the dragon, itunes doesn't update the cover to blank.

Usually, the way I found to force tags to be update is to export the itunes db as a text playlist, but it doesn't work for tags

that were remove, it only works if tags were changed.

It detects changes based on the modified date, probably, but it doesn't care for removed tags, it doesn't update them to be in sync with the actual id3_v23 tag.

What software is that shown above?

That is my itunes music db exported from itunes to an Excel file and then imported into a table in SAS.

Rating is definitely the track rating, I didn't export the album rating.

I have a vbscript that saves a selection of fields from itunes into an excel, so I can analyze and manage it.

Hey, I will try and use your Vb script for clearing album auto ratings.

Question, why is it telling me it will process only 217 tracks?

Doesn't it run on the whole library?

It didn't work, here:

iTunes doesn't let me assign empty to rating, or "" for that matter.

Do you know how to get around this?

Btw, just noticed that they also did away with duplicates.

Yes, they moved the duplicates to a different menu, making me think it was gone.

But there's a lot of features that are really gone.

I just realized what your code did to my tracks ratings, have a look:

The good news is, I know how to fix this. Since your code didn't clear the album ratings, I want to go back to what it

was, I will use my own script for that.