How to stop iTunes automatic album rating?
When I have rated a few songs of a new album, iTunes automatically assigns an album rating to the rest of the songs. This is completely ruining my rating system and smart playlists. I have a smart playlist called "Not rated". I listed to this to rate all new songs. Sometimes I forget to rate a song while listening, other times I skip ahead after rating, so changing the playlist to "Not played" does not work.
The problem is that after I have rated a few songs of a new album, iTunes automatically assigns an album rating to the rest of the songs, and the songs I never rated are removed from the "Not rated" smart playlist. So without regularly scanning to figure out which automatic ratings iTunes has added, I end up forgetting about and never rating a whole bunch of songs. It is fortunately possible to manually look through new albums and one by one assign None as the album rating, and get the songs back into the "Not rated" smart playlist, but is annoying and should be possible to prevent in the first place, if iTunes had a simple option to uncheck, something like "Let iTunes try to figure out rating for unplayed songs".... Should be off by default. Who wants this behavior..?
I have found some old threads on this subject, but no solution, so I don't expect there is one... 😟
I have created a new smart playlist with Album Rating > 3 stars and no Rating. In this I see all the songs that iTunes has automatically rated for me. However, it is not possible to select all and clear album rating. Album rating can only be cleared in Album view and for one album at a time. Apple, please, without the ability to disable automatic album ratings, at least let us clear all album ratings at once!
