Does "highest rating" mean anything?

Question

I begin with two apologies. First, I have not carried out a full search of the archives for discussions of my problem, largely because I'm not sure what search terms are most appropriate. Second, I'm not an iTunes "power user"; I doubt that I use even half of its feature set. However, I have noticed something in the performance of the latest iTunes that bothers me.
I have some 3,000 songs in my playlist. I set the playlist to the settings in the attached screenshot. Then I cleared out the record of the number of plays of all the songs. Then I ran iTunes for ten days. Then I sorted the list by rating and counted the total number of playings of songs in each ratings category. I divided this total number of playings by the number of songs in each rating category. This yielded the percentage of time that songs in each rating category were selected by iTunes. Lo and behold, each rating category got about 20% of the total. In other words, iTunes was NOT selecting songs based on their ratings; it was playing low-rated songs just as frequently as it was playing high-rated songs.
There are two explanations for this result:
1. Pilot error: I failed to make the appropriate settings to tell iTunes to play songs in frequency concomitant with their ratings.
2. Programmer error: iTunes does not select songs by their rating.
Can anybody shed light on this problem?

Answer 1

When it is blue, that means it was sent as an imessage to an iphone imessage user. When it is green it is a sms text which is to a none iphone user or an iphone user that doesnt have imessage turned on.