Questions about updating ratings in my iTunes library.

Hey, I've always wondered this, but is there any way to have the ratings in my library updated from my ipod when i hook it up to my pc? For example, if i'm listening to my ipod, and realize that i don't want it anymore, and lower the rating, is there any way that when i hook it up to my pc, it'll automatically change the rating of that song in my library to that new lower rating? I'm pretty sure that iTunes used to do this, which made managing my music a **** of a lot easier, but now, I have to manually look up each song with a lower rating just to get rid of it from my library.

Automatic syncing is indeed supposed to sync rating changes made in the iPod back to the iTunes library. However, after several years of working fine, in the past year I have found that it has become unreliable; often the sync fails to update the library with iPod play counts and rating changes.
Since you note that "iTunes used to do this," you may well be experiencing the same problem.
Updating iTunes did not help. Restoring the iPod did not help. The only way I have found to assure that it works 100% is to reboot Windows before syncing the iPod. (Yes it is a pain.)

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