Empty / White Rating Stars won't go away

When I rate one or more songs on an album, iTunes automatically gives estimated ratings for the rest of the songs on the album as white or empty stars. Which I don't like.
Formerly, I was able to fix this by going to album view, right click on the album and set rating to zero. But with the last software update this fix doesn't work anymore.
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Are you talking about "Rating" or "Album Rating"? There appears to be a difference. I didn't even really know what you were talking about and did a Google search. Then I made a smart playlist for myself of all of my songs with and album rating not zero. The vast majority of my library popped up.
My suggestion is that you don't assign an Album Rating to any song. The Album Rating appears to be consistent throughout all of the songs from an album (which would only make sense). I gave one song on Doc Powell's +Doc Powell+ an Album Rating of 5, then as I selected the rest of the songs on that album, they went from 4 empty stars to 5 stars. The "problem" is that the one unrated song from that album suddenly had 5 empty stars in the Rating column. Well, no, if I thought that song was worth 5 stars, I would have already given it such a rating! I presume rating the song would replace the five empty stars with the number of stars I want the song to have. I selected a song and returned the Album Rating to zero, so all of the songs went back to 4 empty stars, and my unrated song from +Doc Powell+ went back to 0.
Apparently, iTunes takes the average of the Rating of songs on an album to suggest an Album Rating with empty stars. That rating will be the same for all songs on the album. However, if you assign an album an Album Rating by giving one of the songs any number of stars in the Album Rating column, it will suggest that value with empty stars in the Rating column for any song you haven't given a solid rating within that album. That actually makes sense to me.
Solution: don't give any song an Album Rating. I don't even have that column showing in my playlist views. Make a smart playlist where the criterion is Album Rating is not 0; then select one song from each of the albums and change the Album Rating to 0. You can live with the empty stars in that column.
Does this help?

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