![]() ![]() I wanted to know two things:ġ.) Is it possible to sort ratings by songs with blue stars (my manual ratings) and songs with grey stars (iTunes auto ratings)Ģ.) Is there a way to prevent the automatic SONG rating from iTunes? I don't have a problem with them doing that in the album rating, but for songs? That's kind of ridiculous. More importantly, I want to delete all of the songs that I purposefully did not rate OFF my iTunes list. Why would Apple do this? Especially on songs with no ratings, but have a minimum of 1 playcount?ĭoes Apple think they can more accurately determine which songs I like? Is it doing this because I listen through songs by selecting: Artist > Album > Song then rating one-by-one on my iPod? Apparently Apple is automatically averaging out ratings on songs in albums that didn't get a rating. Up until now, I always assumed that grey stars in SONG rating (not the hidden, less known album rating) column indicated a song that I rated on my iPod and then updated in iTunes when I synced the two up.īut apparently that's not the case. I have noticed, though, that when I sync my iPod (classic) to my iTunes, I'll see a bunch of grey stars in my Ratings column. No stars indicates delete this song off iTunes when I'm finished listening to this album/grouping etc. In order to distinguish which I want and which I don't, I rate the song:ĥ Stars indicates definitely keep this songġ Star indicates decent song, keep, but not a must-have I assumed that this feature wasn't allowed on an iPod or iPhone because synchronization is typically a hard programming problem, but kudos to Apple here, they made it easy to change the iTunes song rating from multiple devices, and it's a really nice feature to have.So I have a method where I listen to songs (either on iTunes or on my iPod, I jump back and fourth between the two) and I listen through EACH SONG one by one and make a determination if I want to keep the song on my computer/iTunes playlist. The cool thing about this iPhone song rating feature is that it automatically syncs back with iTunes when you connect your iPod or iPhone back to your home computer. As you can see, you can give each song a rating between zero stars and five stars. To set/change the song rating for the current song, just tap one of the dots in this list. (You're welcome to give it a different rating, but for me, growing up in the 70s, three stars is just about right. Here's what my iPhone song rating window looks like for the BeeGees song Staying Alive, with the rating area circled in red: ![]() But if you have already set the rating for this song (presumably through iTunes), you'll see one or more stars here along with those dots. If you haven't already set the rating for the song you're currently looking at, you'll see a row of five dots above the song. Tapping this icon takes you to the "back side" of the iPhone song window, and at the top of this window you can set the iPhone/iTunes song rating. The icon I've circled in this iPhone song image is what I'm referring to: To set or change the song rating from your iPhone (or iPod), just tap the widget in the upper-right corner of the screen that looks like an icon of a bulleted list. You can set the iTunes song rating directly from your iPhone (or iPod) when the song is playing. Setting/changing an iPhone/iPod song rating Here's a quick look at how to change the iTunes song rating from your iPhone/iPod. Wow, I'm such an iPod/iPhone/Itunes dummy, I didn't realize that I could change the rating of a song from my iPhone until I dug into it a little bit. First, it seems to have picked a bunch of songs at random and filled them with gray stars that I cannot remove. ![]() IPhone songs FAQ: Can I set or change the rating of an iTunes song on my iPhone or iPod? iTunes changing star ratings After the most recent iTunes update (12.8.2.3 running on a 27'iMac operating on High Sierra 10.13.6 ) I found that iTunes had made two very bad changes to many of the songs in my library. ![]()
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