How do I make Smart Playlists ignore album ratings?
I have a lot of Smart Playlists that rely on song ratings and I am continually having this problem of complete albums showing up on these playlists because iTunes has given them an album rating. I understand how iTunes assigns ratings to albums, but I do not understand why its using this album rating to select songs for Smart Playlists when there is a separate parameter that within the Smart Playlist settings. The problem is that I have an album with one song I like, so I rate that high, and the rest I don't like, so I rate them 0 stars, iTunes then takes the average of the rated songs, which is only one, so now any smart playlist treats every song as though its high rated.
I tried album list view and to manually override the album rating, but this doesnt let you make the album rating 0, it only lets you make it 1 star, which would be fine, except even when I change it to 1 star, for some reason my smart playlists arent respecting that 1 star album rating that i have assigned and are just ignoring it and putting the songs that used to have an album rating of two stars on the list anyway.
I don't care about the album rating, if it wants to auto rate albums, thats fine, but I just dont want Itunes to use those album ratings when assigning songs to smart playlists.
any help would be much appreciated
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)