Half-Star Ratings

How do I enable half-star ratings on my iTouch? (I already have them enabled in iTunes on the computer I sync with.)

Hello TC,
How do I enable half-star ratings on my iTouch? (I already have them enabled in iTunes on the computer I sync with.)
Currently you can't and AFAIK nobody has found a way yet. So far it's only possible in iTunes as you have already done.
B-rock

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How do I enable half star ratings in iTunes in Windows 8.1?
I know it has to be done through itunesprefs.xml but Windows 8.1 does not give you the option to go to C:\Users\<username>\appdata\roaming... to be able to locate the xml file in the first place.

Hi,
What's the secondary tunnel VPN? The Checkpoint VPN is a third-party product, about its issue, it's recommended you contact its official support.
If you point to the Windows 8.1 built-in VPN, here I suggest you follow this guide to check your operation step by step:
Set Up and Edit VPN Connections in Windows 8
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj613767.aspx
And troubleshoot its connection via this tutorial:
Why am I having problems with my VPN connection?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/why-am-i-having-problems-with-my-vpn-connection
Note: It's also applied to Windows 8.1.
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Smart playlists and half-star ratings

Is it possible to make a smart playlist for songs less than 3-1/2 stars? I saw one post from 2008, but it's too complicated and beyond my computer skills. I am on a Macbook.
Thanks for any help.

Chris Milligan wrote:
Is it possible to make a smart playlist for songs less than 3-1/2 stars? I saw one post from 2008, but it's too complicated and beyond my computer skills. I am on a Macbook.
Thanks for any help.
Yes, just put two rules: "Rating" "is" "3 stars" and "Rating" "is less than" "3 stars." Set the 2 rules to "Match Any."

Half Star rating just in Library ?????????

I just downloaded the AppleScript for Half Star rating and it works,
BUT I can't make a smart playlist with half star ratings (for example as song with a 3 1/2* rating isn't shown in a smart playlist with 'greater than 3* and less than 4* rules).
Also in the 'Get info' box of a song, a song with a 2 1/2* rating is shown with a 2* rating.
So a half star rating is only shown and can be set up in the Library.
Maybe there is a script to change this ??? Otherwise in my opinion, half star rating is quite useless.

It's obviously an unactivated feature that Apple have yet to implement. I too have the script and was hoping that iTunes 6.04 would activate this but it hasn't. My guess is they need to get it working on the iPod firmware before they update it in iTunes. Here's hoping for an update soon...

Star Ratings: solid stars opposed to empty stars

hello,
i have noticed that when i give star ratings in iTunes that some of the stars fill in and some are left empty in the center. does anyone know what the difference represents?
thanks in advance...

You mean the stars will actually be "turned on" so to speak, but with a hole in the middle, like a star shaped donut?
I know ratings did, and probably still do, support half star ratings. You can not do it in iTunes directly but there are scripts to assign half stars and they will show up as half stars. Perhaps related to that?
Patrick

Half Stars in iTunes 11.2

For years, I've been able to update iTunesPrefs.xml to allow half star ratings on my Windows machine. I just upgraded to iTunes 11.2 and it now appears that user preferences are gone in the xml file.
Is this no longer an option? I wish Apple would just let us choose it from within the application.

The option to enable half star ratings from within the application, like optional disc and track numbers in file paths, was removed many builds ago. I've tried the iTunesPref.xml hack that I think still worked on iTunes 11.1.5 but it seems that the option is no longer supported.
tt2

Lost star ratings on my chosen photos in Filmstrip mode....

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Have recently lost my star ratings on my files while in Filmstrip mode and the marker that showed that the file had been edited has disappeared ( the little half moon things on the upper right side of the photo... Please help. Im assuming it is a setting but dont know which one

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A raw image from a Canon or Nikon or other cameras has a raw image that cannot store any changes you make to your image. Rather, ACR creates a side-car file that must be in the same folder as the images. You will see your file and the sidecar so (for example) a cannon image might be _MG_3404.CR2 and the sidecar file would be _MG_3404.XMP. As long as those two are in the same folder, everything is great. Until you move one or the other from the folder. Then Bridge, ACR, or PS doesn't know what to do because there are no clues for the original image to KNOW that a sidecar file exists. If you still have the sidecar files, simply rejoining the two into the same folder will sove the problem.
One easy resolution to this is to convert the original image from the original fomat to a DNG. There are MANY MANY benefits to this (and no liabiliities) but for your circumstances, the sidecar file is stored in the DNG. Your original raw image is also stored within this DNG so they cannot be separated.
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1/2 star ratings gone in 10.1

For a long time iTunes has had the "hidden" ability to display 1/2 star ratings.
This ability seems to have gone in iTunes 10.1.
Ratings are still stored internally as a number between 0 and 100, but a 90 no longer displays as 4 1/2 stars (instead it displays just as 4 stars).
I'd like my 1/2 stars back, but I'm mostly posting to warn people who might like the 1/2 stars and not want to loose them.
For me it is a dilema. I like that you can hide ping in 10.1. And I'll probably want to upgrade to iOS4.2. But I do like those 1/2 stars. Not sure what to do. . .

This is a ditto to dknightd's comment.
Since 2008 I have been using "I Love Stars" a free app that allowed to rate songs with half-stars. Before that I was using some Apple scripts (Doug's?) to do the same. That is 6 or 7 years of data wiped out by either OS 10.6.5 or iTunes 10.1! I am really surprised there aren't more people commenting (complaining) about this because without the kerfuffle I am not sure Apple will correct the situation.
Please, please Mister Jobs....put the half-stars back. : (

How can I transfer my star ratings to my new computer?

Just bought a new Dell. I have ITunes on my old computer, and have spent lots of time creating playlists and star ratings. How can I import that into my new computer? I have a video Ipod with my complete music library on it, and when I connect it to my new computer I can listen and change the ratings, but I can't transfer the music, or any of the playlist info. Ideas?

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Nano star RATINGS not reflected in iTunes 7.4.1 (2) - manual sync

Aloha,
I rated several tunes while walking. I don't have enough room on my 4gb iPod to carry everything at once. I would like to temporarily remove those tunes that I have already rated and put some others on. I use the star ratings as my own personal way to sort by speed, favs, and junk.
When I get back to my Mac, I know that the ones with 1 star are to be deleted - pau (pronounced pow! Pau is Hawaiian for done, did it, finished, no more).
2 stars is slow, maybe no words
3 is walking pace, can talk over, easy listening
4 is dance, hike, pep up
5 are personal fav's of a variety of speeds
I want to have that ranking info sync up with the same songs that came from my library in the first place. Then I want to dump those and grab more music, or audiobook parts, or podcasts, whatevahs. This is the way I used to do it on my old FireWire iPod many versions of iTunes ago.
I plan to continue to rate music as I have time and when I get back to my Mac that rating system allows me to put the music into playlists that I have essentially created on the fly.
I can change my rating system at any time and wa-la I've got a new playlist.
I'm open to other ways of accomplishing same onthego sorting principle. I've tried creating a playlist using iTunes, but the playlist is on my Nano and I cannot copy it or the files to a playlist on my Mac. . . . maybe I can export a playlist
Oh, that was ugly - don't follow me! I imported the playlist into my library and I now appear to duplicates of every playlist related to music (and the two called 4star are both empty). Great (eSarcasm).

First thing to get out of the way is ratings do not transfer from iPod to iTunes in manual syncing. Try using sync selected playlists mode. Then set up iPod to sync the playlists you want on iPod.

Transferring Star ratings in iTunes

After using iTunes on a windows machine for years, I have taken the plung and purchased a mini-MAC. I have transferred all my songs from iTunes on the windows machine to iTunes on the mini-MAC. I have also figured out how to import my playlists from the PC to the MAC. Is there any way to "transfer" the star ratings of the songs from the PC iTunes to the MAC iTunes? I would really hate to lose the ratings on over 2000 songs?
Thanks
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I did it by making 5 separate smart playlists on the original machine, called '5star', '4star', '3star', etc. Then I exported the playlists - but as .txt files, NOT .xml files.
I imported these playlists onto the new machine, then selected each of the imported playlists, one at a time, and assigned the appropriate star rating to all songs in each list. (Ctrl-A will select all songs in each list; then Ctrl-I will bring up one Info screen for each entire playlist, and you can go to the Options tab to set the star rating for all songs in each list.)
Once I figured it out, it went pretty fast. You can delete both the smart playlist and the imprted lists after the ratings are assigned.

Multiple star ratings

I need some advice about star ratings for music.
I'm about to own a MacMini with iTunes 10. I intend to transfer all my music from my Powerbook.
At present I give my music star ratings, and synch smart playlists of 4 & 5 star rated tracks to my iPhone.
I've just bought my kids iPod Touches, and they want to rate tracks they like in the same way that I do.
But I don't want their new fangled music to appear on my playlists if they give a track say 4 stars.
Is there a way of marking tracks with stars awarded by the owners of certain iPods, or can I create a library for each person, but use a single set of source music. EG, a master library would hold all the songs, but none would be rated. Our own personal libraries would point at the master library, and we would rate the tracks within our own library only. Thus a song could be rated 1 in my library but 4 in a child's library, meaning the song would appear in their 4 star playlist, but not on mine.
Any help much appreciated.

Bebbs wrote:
can I create a library for each person, but use a single set of source music.
instead, you might want to consider *method one* from this support article: [_*How to use multiple iPods with one computer*_|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495].
if you prefer, though, the following 3rd party apps make managing multiple libraries a bit easier:
PowerTunes
[_*iTunes Library Manager*_|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/ituneslibrarymanager.php]
JGG

Importing photos from ZoomBrowser into iPhoto without losing keywords and star ratings

I have been using Canon's ZoomBrowser EX on my Windows Vista laptop. I have just bought a MacBook Air running Lion. I would like to import all of my photos to iPhoto, but when I do this I lose all of the keywords and star ratings I have associated with my many photos. Is there any way to import the photos into iPhoto while retaining the keywords and star ratings so that I can use them in iPhoto? Doing this manually would be impractical due to the large number of photos involved.
Thanks.
- Charlie

Keywords:
Iphoto can certainly import them if they are written to the correct fields of the standard metadata. They key question is can your Windows app write them to the files?
Ratings
There's no real way to share ratings via standard metadata, but if you can write the keywods, then you can quickly tag the pics with simple keywords (1star, 2star) and when imported to iPhoto recreate your rating system.
So, the question is really about your existing software and what it can do.
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TD

How can I get rid of phantom star ratings in iTunes (10.6.3)? They serve no purpose that I can see.

How can I get rid of phantom star ratings in iTunes (10.6.3)? They serve no purpose that I can see. thx

After you sign in with the old ID and are presented with the option to keep the information on the iPad, you should say yes to that. Then you should be able to delete the account on the device. After you delete the account, you can - or you should be able to - sign in with the new Apple ID.
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So ... sign into your new ID in Settings>iTunes & App Store. Tap the old ID and sign out. Then sign in with the new ID. Then delete the old iCloud account like I explained above and then sign in with the new Apple ID, all of your purchased content and iCloud content should be good to go.

Star ratings not transferring in sync

When I'm on the go I give a star rating to my songs on my iPhone 3GS.
When I get home I'd love to transfer the ratings over to iTunes.
Is there a setting that turns this feature on?
Is it suppose to happen automatically?
I can't get any star ratings to transfer over from my iPhone to iTunes or from iTunes to my iPhone.
The sync takes ages then completes, I imagine it's doing something.
I had this issue before I updated to iOS4, I manually manage my music on the iPhone.

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