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The Terminal solution proposed by "Ric Vieira [Author]
User level: Level 1. 43 points
In iTunes / Music how to enable half-stars rating ?"
‹‹ defaults write com.apple.music allow-half-stars -bool TRUE ››
This no longer works in Mac OS Sequoia.
Has anybody found out how to re-enable this EXTREMELY useful feature?
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I accidentally discovered a partial "hack" (a half hack, if you will). On my M1 Mac Studio, at least, any song can be rated with half-stars as long as I'm viewing it in "Songs" (as opposed to in its album or playlist settings, where Music still insists on full stars only). I'm on 15.1.1 right now, but I think I stumbled upon this at an earlier version of Sequoia. It's only a half hack, because even after tweaking a rating, say, from 4 stars to 4.5 while in Songs, the same track will continue to default to a full star neighbour when I view it elsewhere. Still, it's occasionally helpful when I'm reviewing my library in "Songs" mode. One can continue to hope that some day Apple will acquire the "intelligence" to make this very useful user customization available across all Apple Music sorting categories. I get that they're on a limited budget, but I think this should be a priority.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I tried the app, but couldn't get it to work, probably because there is no room in the abbreviated menu bar on newer MacBooks.
They do partly work in 15.1, but only in Songs view. Not within smart playlists for sure.
Still disappointing.
Yes, I've noticed this since updating to 15.1. Half-star ratings are available in Songs view. Hopefully in 15.2 we'll get retrograded back up to half-stars app-wide.
I just tried the terminal script at the top of this thread and it worked fine for me— no hardware restart required! I’m running Sequoia 15.1.1 on an M1 Max Studio. Good luck!
Thanks for your feedback.
I'm using Sequoia 15.2 on an M2 MacBook Air.
The script still doesn't work for me.
How can I enable half-star ratings in.Sequoia Apple Music
