Comments on: iTunes, I Can't Wait to Fire You

By: Widge

Widge — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:49:20 +0000

Bee: That sort of thing happens. Since I originally made this post, I understand a new version of Songbird is out that may have what I want…but I haven't had a chance to try it out again. Thanks for the comment.

By: Bee.

Bee. — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:13:51 +0000

Thank you, very much. I use the "Top Rated" smart playlist as the music I put on my iPhone…There was 2 GIGS of auto-rated songs on my iPhone, just eating up space.

I've found by simply turning on the "Album Rating" view option, the auto-rated songs were removed from my "Top Rated Songs" playlist.

By: Widge

Widge — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:20:07 +0000

Chris: You can indeed do that via the Album Art version, but I have been able to get it down to none, so not sure why it wasn't working for you…thanks for the comment, though!

By: Chris Gilbert

Chris Gilbert — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:12:49 +0000

I just found the solution! Go to you music library. Then Go to the View menu, and select "as grid" at the top. All of your music will be albums. Then you select all with ctrl-a, and right click on the songs. Go to "Album Rating" and select 1 star. For some reason, Going to "none" doesn't work. All you albums will no longer have high auto ratings that f' with your regular song ratings. AKA no hollow star ratings.

I guess this only works if you dont care about what your albums are rated.

By: maximilian

maximilian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:02:35 +0000

I've been developing a script that will determine a song's rating based on its play and skip counts. It uses the proper math to account for the uncertainty stemming from limited amounts of data and has a few other features. I just blogged about it yesterday.

http://50percentofcapacity.blogspot.com/2009/07/weighted-song-playing-script.html

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:42:08 +0000

Geez!!! Why the hell would I want my computer to average out my tastes? I do not want this and why can I not turn this hollow star thing off? Also, why did ITunes remove the shuffle setting for more likely/less likely play songs from the same artist? It was very useful! I used it! Completely inane.

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:34:51 +0000

thanks for this post – I have been trying to figure this out for months – I agree a completely annoying feature I wish I could shut it off…

By: Niketas

Niketas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:17:50 +0000

Just have discovered this crap too.
Seems to be strange at first glance, but if you keep your library organized, it's okay.
Just keep it. Keep it. Please, keep it. Oh, fuck, again mistitled song.

I wonder if Apple will ever implement self-educative rating system based on skip/play counts and related sonds ratings. It's make better to genius playlist, which I like much.

By: David

David — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:14:28 +0000

I've been alright, hit and miss.
Wait… was that a rhetorical question?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:11:29 +0000

Pretty much agreed.

My brother, bless him, bought me an Ipod for Christmas. I actually love the Ipod as a product. Using Itunes to get things on it is a path to madness.

I don't want to have to tell it's cover flow feature that, no it's one album, anytime I load a soundtrack. Ugh.