Smart playlist shows songs and albums with stars

Lonewolf,

If you use the Smart Playlist criterion for Rating (not Album Rating), it will only pick up songs based on their Rating.

See below - do these rules work for you?

The light grey (formerly hollow) stars are autoratings generated because some of the tracks on the album have been rated. If you rate an album as 3 stars all unrated tracks get a 3 star track autorating. If you rate one track from an album as 2 stars, and another as 4, leave the rest unrated, the album gets autorated to 3 stars (the average of all manually rated tracks).

iTunes generates these autoratings on the fly. To clear them use my scripts ClearAlbumAutoRating and/or ClearTrackAutoRating which sets manual values of 1%. There are corresponding scripts to reset things if you want to enable album or track autoratings again at a later stage.

There currently seems to be another issue where syncing after tracks have been rated on a device may cause an album to gain a full rating. Hopefully Apple are aware of this issue and will resolve in a later build, but keep an eye out for unwanted changes.

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