Rating Music

What's the API to change a media item's rating? I can find my music tracks, and get their MPMediaItem. I know how to pull their MPMediaItemPropertyRating property. I don't know what class/function is needed to alter the music rating. Thank you.

ashumate wrote:
I don't know what class/function is needed to alter the music rating.
That's because a public setter method does not exist. You are plumb out of luck.

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Steve Davey

If you manually manage the device the you can remove the content from the PC after you have put it on the device. However this isn't the recommended way. At some point you'll probably need to restore it which involves wiping all the data. If you don't have all this data to hand then you'll have to try to recover it from a now problematic device first. It's much easier to sync with your library - yes you have two copies, but that's not a waste, it is prudent. As long as you have two copies you can afford to lose one knowing you have a backup. In practice I keep a complete backup of my library, in addition to the subsets of it that I can put on my devices.
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Rating music in IOS 5 made very hard

Since the update to IOS 5 the now called "Music" player automatically displays the album artwork when playing another song, even if I select the song explicitly by tapping on it. This makes rating my music very hard since I have always to switch back to the list view by tapping the list icon in the lower right corner.
I do not like applications that assume I am stupid and do the thinking for me. Apple is on the way to match Microsoft ...
Why am In not even enabled to switch this behavior off? For rating music the iPad is now nearly useless.
@Apple: Please change this behavior or give us options to select what WE want. Could not be that hard ...

I'd like to second this. If I have put the music app in list view it shouldn't switch on me every time the song changes. I like to put on a playlist of unrated music and star each song. This "feature" makes the process very annoying.

Rating Music On 5G 30GB iPod

iPod: 5G, 30GB
OS: Windows XP
Sync: Manually manage music and videos
I've recently started rating my songs on my iPod so I can have a smart playlist for my favorites. I had rated a lot of songs on my iPod using the iPod itself since I was away from the computer and iTunes. When I connected my iPod to my computer, all my ratings were gone, and remain gone when I disconnect my iPod from the computer. However, when I make the ratings on iTunes on my computer, the rating remains when my iPod is connected as well as when it is not.
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I'm pretty sure I set it to automatic.
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I have some Smart playlists in iTunes, but since some time ago, I can't creata a playlist based upon rating.
The problem is, If I clic one star automatically shows 3, if I clic 2 iTunes set 4, and 5 instead of 3 stars.
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Oh sorry, It was a mistake I'm using 6.0.2
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I've re-started and re-synched my computer and iPhone several times.
Anybody with some wisdom here? Many thanks.

The first thing I would do is try to use Image Capture on the Mac to pull all of the Photos off your old iPhone. The Image Capture program is found in your Applications/Utilities folder. After you have them on your computer, download the free program Pic Share It. Install the free version of it on your iPad and then drag and drop the photos from your Mac to your iPad. Here's a video showing you how it work.

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I recently purchased a 32gb 3GS iPhone so I could finally store my entire music library on the phone instead dividing it up in to what could fit on 16gb.
The problem I'm seeing now is that when I'm playing music and I rate a song, the iPod interface will be completely unresponsive for anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds. It will continue to queue up the button presses and then once it comes back, it'll jump all over the place as it responds to all the buttons that were pressed. This happens for any song in live updating smart playlists (with live updating on and off) and normal playlists.
I've seen other threads that talk about this and they recommended that I start fresh with the 3GS and don't restore from a back up of my old 3G but that didn't make any difference.
Any one else seeing anything like this?

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The data bar at the bottom of the screen shows that the sync worked (increased data amounts become available) but the music is still on the iphone.
I have even deleted music off my laptop but it still shows on the iPhone.
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Hello phil.winter,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you would like to remove your music from your iPhone but are thus far unsuccessful. I know that you have already unchecked the Sync Music box and report that the music remained on your iPhone, but did you click the Apply button in the bottom right hand corner of iTunes after you unchecked that box? If not please try this step and let me know if the issue continues.
Sync your iPhone, iPad, and iPod with iTunes using USB - Apple Support
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I have a PC, windows 8, how do I sinc my Top Rated play list from my Itunes on my computer to my Iphone 5?

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Hi DebbieLC!
I have an article for you that can help you troubleshoot this issue a little further. We have an article that explains what to do if you have no content in your iTunes after updating, and it can be found here:
No content shows up in iTunes after updating
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1967
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
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Seems a very nice music-sync feature has been dropped (Touch 8GB, 3rd gen)

Hi,
I don't know whether this has been brought up before (searched various sections of the support forums but did not find any reference to it) but if so, please excuse me.
Before upgrading my touch to iOS4 and/or updating to the latest versions of iTunes (I don't know which of those two updates can be accounted for this missing feature, that's why I mention both) there was a nice music sync option via which you could define the amount of disk space to fill up with music (you could also select f.e. that you preferred higher rated music to be selected) which would randomly fill your touch up to the limit specified with a random list of music.
It seems this functionality is dropped (at least I couldn't find it anymore) for my iPod Touch. It was a feature I really loved. All I am left with now is to either select "entire music library" or "selected artist, playlist or genre". Selecting the first won't work as my iTunes library is ten times bigger than what would fit on the iPod, the second option does not really randomize the music list but always makes a selection out of the playlists I have. Next to that I completely lost the possibility to define the maximum amount of memory to reserve for music.
Am I so stupid that I overlooked this feature completely or has this really been dropped? If so does anybody know why it has been left out in the latest iTunes versions?
Rgds,
Jan.

i liked this feature too
i used to have it on my mp3 player too.
:O)

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Chris CA wrote:
Both correctly include 2 1/2 star songs when one of their criteria is "greater than 2 stars".
Are you sure the songs are not getting includes as part of other criteria in the list?
Very. Each playlist has just two criteria (both of which must match): "Rating is greater than 2" and "Playlist is ___". In fact, I've used those two lists (which between them include essentially all of my rated music) to create a "Rated 2.5" list (which correctly contains all of my 2.5 rated songs and nothing else).
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It is mathematically correct. You mean it does not work in adding 3 1/2 rating to the playlist.
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Ah, thank you! That's good to know. Interestingly, when I look inside the XML file to compare one of my two "especially smart" playlists to what ought to be a perfect duplicate of it (but isn't) there /is/ one small difference in the "Smart Criteria" section (in the next-to-last line of data there, the better-behaving list has a "Bk" in a place where the worse-behaving one has an "A7"). Is there any way for an ordinary user to edit the internals of the actual iTunes Library database?
Have you looked over at dougscripts.com for something on this?
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