Bug in iTunes 6.0.2 - Smart Playlist - music rating criteria

There's a bug in the smart playlist music rating criteria. It's impossible to select stars. if you choose one, iTunes selects two. If you want to reduce stars, you will go mad.
iTunes 6.0.2 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

This bug is known and discussed in this Forum.
Apple has published an article about it:
iTunes 6.0.2: Wrong number of rating stars when configuring Smart Playlist rule
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hi there,
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well, that's nice of Apple but just for those guys who want to make a smart playlist with rating=3.
doesn't solve my initial problem to make a playlist with 3<=rating<=5.
but they say they'll update as more information comes available.
I'm quite sure we'll see iTunes 6.0.3 soon. This is not the only bug according to the postings in this discussion board.
What's going on at Apple? QuickTime 7.0.4 had critical bugs, too. And Aperture 1.0 was a huge flop, too. (And 1.0.1 is snail slow on my dual g5 2.7 GHz PowerMac...)
I guess all the money went to the hardware departments to speed up the Intel switch...
oh, but I'm off-topic. sorry!
just my $0.02.
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I will for sure be launching a compliant to www.apple.com/feedback.

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I will for sure be launching a compliant to www.apple.com/feedback.

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Hi
For some reason the "My Rating" option is not available to fill on my Smart Playlist.
- Uninstalled iTunes and installed but not solved.
- Up to date version
- Used Repair option.
Old Smart List with "My Rating" filled are still working fine but not able to see values or change the "My Rating" options.
Other options when creating Smart Playlist are all working fine.
Hope for some help here
Thank you

Not sure if you've gotten an answer...
The way the field works (when working properly) is you click somewhere in the field and either 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 stars will appear.
In our case, when we click in the field we are, in fact, specifying a rating even though the stars don't show up.
For example, if you click all the way to the left, you will wind up with 1 star, and the smart playlist will work the way you expect it to.
If you click all the way to the right, you will wind up with 5 stars.
After you get good at it, you can figure out where 2, 3, and 4 stars are.
My understanding is that this is a video driver issue, but I have no idea what that means or how to solve it.
I don't have this issue on my two Mac's. It only happens to me on my Windows laptop.

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Is this normal?
ThanksMessage Edited by duffmagic on 03-2-200604:47 PM

highice wrote:
Hi,
I have tried running that tool too with no luck i'm afraid.
I have a collection of around 6000 MP3S/WAVS
It takes ages to run on my machine, and processes one track at a time. AMD X2 3800, 2GB ram, 2X7800gt's SLI, SB Audigy 2ZS, Raptor sys Dri've.
It gets about Half way through and just stops, after restarting pc you can resume scanning from the last track processed, I was happy when I saw this. It was a short li'ved happiness however, I hit the resume button and it resumed into the paused/crashed state it was originally in before the restart. NICE.
I could always uninstall, reinstall, run it again, sit staring at the screen until it gets to the same point, note the offending file, remove or rencode the offending file, hope no more files offend it or will have to uninstall/reinstall again, then resume scanning............... Sod it I think I can li've without it :-)
not much help sorry, more of an opinion
What is the version of your Creative MediaSource?

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