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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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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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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.
How to get rid of album rating?
