Itunes automatically rating songs.

my itunes automatically rates random songs 5 out of 5 stars.
the stars instead of being filled in, are just outlined.
it's driving me crazy because all these random songs that i don't even like/ know are ending up in my 'Top Rated' playlist.

Sorry for bringing back to life such an old topic, but I may know the answer.
Have you rated the ablum those songs are aprt of? I know that if you rate an album 5 stars, all songs not rated will show 5 outlined stars. Only way I have been able to work around that is to manully rate those songs 1 star, or unrate the album. Hope that helps.

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Well perhaps I am being a bit dense here, but using iTunes 6.1 I thought that you would do the following:
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