Rating albums?

Why hasn't iTunes have this feature? You can rate individual songs and such, and they just implemented album reviews on the Music Store... but when will they give the user the ability to rate their music by album on top of just the individual songs. Most music is done as a whole album rather than a bunch of singles anyways...
Is this a feature that will be coming anytime soon you think?
Thanks,
Brice

Brian:
That is an interesting idea - and you should post it in either the OS X Feedback page and/or the iTunes Feedback page.
However, since iTunes is song, not album oriented, I don't think it is something we are likely to see soon. Albums only exist within the iTunes structure as a group of songs that share an ID3 tag called "Album". There is no other logical link between such tracks. If there was a single character difference between such tags, iTunes would not recognize any relationship.
Lita

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Read this user doc. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4113.
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This may not seem important, but the way I sync my ipod with my playlists relies on these smart playlists (and not on rating every single song in my library) because my ipod is too small in hard drive size for my library.
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I've seen this discussed a few times but the given answers don't seem to work, maybe it has changed again in the new release of itunes (I'm on 9.1.1.12 on XP). I have a smart playlist of all the songs which have not been rated. Once I'd rated 19/29 of them they all disappeared as itunes had calculated an album rating (which is fine) but then applied that rating to all the unrated songs. In some views the songs are listed as unrated but the key thing is that the smart playlist thinks they're rated when they're not. Previous postings say to unrate the album but whenever I do that it just automatically rerates again. How can I create a playlist of songs that I have not yet rated?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
I've just had a look at this under V9.1.1.11 current Windows build (is yours 64-bit perhaps?) and, as far as I can tell, rating tracks (filled stars) will produce an automatic rating (hollow stars) for an album. Likewise rating albums will produce an automatic rating for each of their tracks. If you only rate some of the tracks of an album without explicitly setting an album rating then the remaining tracks should stay unrated. I can set ratings for all but one track of the album and the last will stay happily unrated. What rules are you using to determine what should be in your unrated playlist?
tt2

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I dunno if anyone else is like me and has a humongous music library, and therefore relies on star ratings to manage and enjoy it, but anyway - the iTunes album rating feature comes so close to being awesome, but instead lies frustratingly unused.
I would love to be able to make a new Smart Playlist of just my 4 and 5 star albums ("My Top Albums"), thus reviving the album amidst the single mp3 movement!
The problem is that iTunes applies an automatic album rating based on average song ratings, and I can't figure out how to disable it. What this means is that if I "top rate" a single song on a lousy album, that whole album will automatically be added to the "My Top Albums" playlist, which I obviously don't want.
It also clutters up the song rating field by putting these "recommended" blank stars. It's very disappointing and frustrating!
Is anyone else as ****** as I am? Has anyone found a way to disable this or get around it?

I found a script created by Doug Adams that allows you to set the album rating to half star, which will then remove it from the Smart Playlist, so that's certainly a step in the right direction.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=1#albumratingreset
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But now I have to manually go in and apply this script to all the things I DON'T want in My Top Rated Albums playlist. Then if Apple ever fixes this automatic rating issue, I'll have to go back in and run the script again to remove the half star junk. Hmm...
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{quote:title=Chris CA wrote:}No, it will not. iTunes does not work like this.{quote}
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{quote:title=Chris CA wrote:}I don't rate my albums and none of my songs have hollow/empty star ratings.{quote}
That's good for you, but it doesn't help anyone who IS getting automatic song ratings, like I do.
{quote:title=Chris CA wrote:}Keep in mind their is a column for both Rating and an *Album rating*.{quote}
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{quote:title=Chris CA wrote:}An autorating (empty star) will not transfer from an album to a song and vice-versa.
If it did, then when you rate one song 5 stars then every song on that album would automatically go to 5 stars. It doesn't.{quote}
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I now do this, it's not a definitive solution, it's rather a tournaround but it works.
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Aperture / Iphoto library looks empty.

I installed the latest Aperture version 3.6, and when i tried to open, it ask me to rebuild the library for the latest version with iphoto, i did everything it asked and after all when i open aperture or iphoto they don't show anything, they don't have any pictures. One important thing is that the file size of the library, thats stored on an external drive, is really big, 4.6gb so i think my photos are still there.
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Yes, occurs in both RAW & JPEG
Here's what we learned today: when we call up the Album in question (but does happen in other albums but trying to stick with just one for now) it is now confirmed that it's only happening with D800 photos,but doesn't matter the size of photo or whether Jpeg or Raw. Can be either/or.
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