Apple Music - Album Ratings trouble

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Apple Music - Album Ratings trouble

I have a large library of purchased music [mostly Amazon], when I buy albums, I then put them in a playlist of unrated music, and gradually listen and rate. iTunes/Apple music has long derived an album rating from the songs ratings on the album. It then *sometimes * would make the album rating "real", and this would then mean that the remaining songs on the album would inherit the album rating, and disappear of my playlist.

This was irritating but solvable as I would make the album unrated and these predicted song ratings would disappear and the playlist would be correct again.

However I can't find a way to reset the album rating in the current version of Apple Music 1.1.2.28?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 31, 2021 1:23 AM

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Mark_AppleSupport Author

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Jan 31, 2021 12:25 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks. I will try the script out. I have also found that if I go to recently added albums, and right click on the album, I can set the rating to None, which cleans the mess up. I still think its a big, or at least something preferences should allow you to decide on

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turingtest2

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Jan 31, 2021 1:08 PM in response to Mark_AppleSupport

There is a an elipsis three dots menu for the album that also gives access to ratings but I found that once stars are enabled I'm seeing star to the right of the album cover that I can adjust.

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turingtest2

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Jan 31, 2021 5:12 AM in response to Mark_AppleSupport

Check Music > Preferences > Show: > Star Ratings is ticked.

See also Handling grey stars - Apple Community.

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Jan 31, 2021 2:04 PM in response to turingtest2

I have enabled stars but don't see them next to the album cover -oh well. I created the scripts and put them in /Library/scripts, but don't see them in any menu? i noticed that the Library itself is in the Music folder itself not in the Library folder (which I created)

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turingtest2

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Jan 31, 2021 2:44 PM in response to Mark_AppleSupport

Mark_AppleSupport wrote:

I have enabled stars but don't see them next to the album cover -oh well. I created the scripts and put them in /Library/scripts, but don't see them in any menu? i noticed that the Library itself is in the Music folder itself not in the Library folder (which I created)

It should be ~/Library/Music/Scripts where ~ is your user's Home folder.

This is where I'm seeing ratings:

And this is the other menu I mentioned:

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Apple Music - Album Ratings trouble

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