Rating songs

Is there a way to rate songs from the recently played list. I love listening to. My mixes, but I hate having to stop what I'm doing to rate each song while I'm building a new mix.

When a song is playing, press the center Select button a few times. It will get to the rating bullets.
Use the wheel to set the rating.

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I have a smart playlist to gather up all my five-star rated songs; however, there are several missing songs in that playlist when I use the iOS Music app. The reason? The missing songs are not rated five-star, but the album itself is. My solution is to systematically go through the playlist and find the songs that have a grey rating which means the album itself has the rating. I did a few albums this way when the option put into iTunes.
Anyone know of another work around?
I did try putting "Album Rating is five stars" in the rules, but it then added entire albums including non-rated songs from that album.
I'm using all the current versions of iTunes, iOS and am on a new Mac Mini at home. Phone is a 5.
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Hi,
Read this user doc. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4113.
One thing you could try if you still have the original CDs is to re-rip the discs on a different format e.g.mp3 instead of m4a or vice versa at at least 256 kbps - still no guarantee of match. The reason for using a different format is that match remembers previous uploads even those deleted from cloud some time ago.
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hello, has anyone else had the problem of one day opening up you itunes and you have a whole bunch of rated songs in my top rated that you didnt even do. they are at a 5 stars but there not solid black like when you normal rate songs there a transparent star. i dont know how to get them off i tried to click the rating to none on my itunes but that dosent work, has anyone had this happen and know what they did to solve the problem. did they maybe rate off the iphone and thats the way i got to take them off???
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never mind i have came across the problem its exactly what i said at the bottom they where rated in my iphone dont know how but currently going through and un rating the songs..

Moved Library - rated songs didn't update

I searched and didn't readily see this topic.
I recently had a drive failure and had to rebuild my library - I imported my library and did all my setup and some song ratings on an external firewire drive. Once it got it all together I moved the drive to my server.
After the move I changed my preferences to the new location and all was well until I tried to play a song that I had applied a rating to. Any of those songs were not updated in the music library - confirmed by checking the xml file to find that their locations still point to the old location via attached firewire drive, not via mounted server share.
Now, I should ask why the **** a song with a rating would have a full path applied to it in the library as opposed to unrated songs that dont, but that's probably for another discussion.
Is there any way to change the locations of these songs to reflect the new location? I'm currently forced to double click on each one and then locate it in its new location to get the song to update. I'd prefer not to do this with all the rated songs.
I've tried consolidating the libraries since I ripped more songs to my local drive - that didn't force the update. I tried to disable and then reapply "keep music folder organized" option and that was no good either.
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After the move I changed my preferences to the new location
If you thought that would have changed the song locations, you're misunderstanding the meaning of the 'iTunes Music folder location' (like many people do)
Changing that location will only tell iTunes where to store the next ripped CD and purchased music.
The song locations of your library at that moment stay unaltered, as you discovered yourself by examining the .xml file.
The correct way of moving your music is:
Organize.
Change location.
Consolidate.
This will let iTunes do the move and update the song locations in the 'iTunes Library' file.
All necessary steps are described in iTunes: Moving your iTunes Music folder.
If you can revert to the old situation (backups?) you can try again.
Hope this helps.
M
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Why can i only purchase 'E' rated songs on my iPhone but can purchase all songs on my iPad?

I have been trying to purchase a song from the iTunes store on my iPhone but it will not highlight the price so i can select it. If i go to an 'E' rated song there is no problem. Although i have not completed a purchase, i can go through the whole process on my iPad with no apparent problem. Is this a setting on my iPhone?
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Connect the phone to your Mac and select it on the left-hand sidebar of your Mac's iTunes (you can enable the sidebar via option-command-S on a Mac) and then use the Music tab on the right-hand side of the iTunes screen to select which of your music that you want in your phone's Music app
Syncing media : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351

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I often want to listen to an album or artist but only the songs I have rated. In iTunes I have a playlist of all rated songs. I type the artist or album name in search for a quick way of limiting the playlist to what I want to hear. My question is, how can I get the same result on the iPod? (without creating playlists for every artist, etc.)

Smart playlist limited to only rated songs. Sort the playlist by artist. Then when you want to play scroll to track you want.
It is cumbersome but there is very limited playlist editing available on the ipod. I have a playlist that only contains songs not played. As I play the tracks drop off the list. Eventually When I have listened to all tracks I will edit playlist to tracks played less than twice. While playing I tend to add ratings. If I get distracted and forget I have another playlist to catch tracks with playcount=1 but not rated.

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hello
i had rated som song as one star in my iphone, so when i connect to itunes, the rating should show, [when i select the music of my iphone in itunes]
i used to have it in old release but now i dont know why does not show .
i even made smart list when all music with one star will go to the list
but i can see the list in iphone but not in itunes when i connect it, [smart List is empty].
can please someone tell me why ??!!!
i manage my music manually, i dont like to sync. [it work before so am sure there is a way]
so please tell me how to get the rating when i connect my iphone .

Hi Lyssa,
Thank you for the suggestion. I managed to find the iPhone device on the iMac under "shared" rather than "devices". It works great.
Thanks again,
George

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I think rating your songs while out on the road would be a good idea. Don't you think that would be a good idea?

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I've just got a I Pod Nano. I know how to rate the songs using the stars. But was wondering if I can then make the i pod play the songs that I've rated as good. I like to organise my i pod in terms of album and artists (I make a new playlist for each artist or album). I don't want to make a playlist of all my favourite songs in addition to the songs being in the playlist of each artist/album and therefore have the songs on twice using up space. I just want the i pod to recognise which I've rated highly and play them without putting the songs on twice!
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I make a new playlist for each artist or album)
Why? iTunes already does this.
Go to Music -> Artist and it will show all albums by that artist.
Or go to Music -> Albums and it will show all albums.
You can create Smart playlists whcih do what you want.
There are a few by default already in iTunes. Recently added, Top 25, etc.
Go to File -> New Smart playlist and create new ones and see what you come up with.
All songs rated 4 or 5 star and not heard in last month.
All songs in Genre Rock and Added in last two weeks.
If you have a large library, iTunes will Automatically create a new playlist which fits. To put on your own selections prevent this, go to iTunes prefs -> iPod and select Automatically update only selected playlists and select those you want.

ITunes not updating iPod rated songs

I have used iTunes and iPods for several years. I always use automatic updating. Previously, any change to a song rating I made on my iPod would be reflected in my iTunes library after a sync. Since my most recent iTunes update (7.1.1), I have two problems. (1) iTunes does not update the ratings changes made on my iPod and (2) podcasts which I listen to on my iPod are not marked as "not new" in iTunes. It appears that Apple has screwed up something in the sync process in the newest iTunes version. Is anyone else having this problem?

I have used iTunes and iPods for several years. I
always use automatic updating. Previously, any
change to a song rating I made on my iPod would be
reflected in my iTunes library after a sync. Since
my most recent iTunes update (7.1.1), I have two
problems. (1) iTunes does not update the ratings
changes made on my iPod and (2) podcasts which I
listen to on my iPod are not marked as "not new" in
iTunes. It appears that Apple has screwed up
something in the sync process in the newest iTunes
version. Is anyone else having this problem?
Having exactly the same problem as your first issue. In the playlist of top-rated tunes they all appear. However my iTunes library has 460 relevant tunes, whereas the same playlist on the iPod has 100 fewer. They are greyed out and can't be changed and aren't played.
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Rating songs via Remote app

I used to be able to change a song's rating via the Remote App. With the 3.0 Remote App upgrade, this capability seems to have been lost on the iPod Touch platform, but is still available from the iPad. Am I missing something???

Guys
I have found a solution that lets you downgrade to the previous version of the remote app :-)
Tested and it works: -
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Next, Delete the app from your iphone
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I recently upgraded to an iPhone 6 which is running iOS 8.1. I also subscribe to iTunes Match.
The issue I have been running into is that every time I do a star rating while listening to a song on my phone, I notice the next day that the rating has been erased. I do sync my phone with my computer every night (wi-fi sync) but I don't believe that should be affecting my music (as I mentioned I use iTunes Match). I also backup to the icloud every night.
Has anybody run into this same issue and know how to solve it? At this point it is more just frustrating than anything and seems like it should be a relatively easy fix either way.
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The Music app on the iPad doesn't have configurable columns. You can set the rating of the current track, but you can't make changes to other properties such as Comments or Genre. In iTunes on your Mac you can display different columns and resize them. Tweak your tags in the main library.
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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.

Rating Songs While Playing Genius Mixes?

I love the Genius Mix feature of iTunes. But I also like to rate my music for making smart playlists. How do you rate songs while you're playing Genius Mixes. There is no stars to click when you mouse of the the mix folder. Any ideas?
Thanks

Thanks, Garbeth, that works.
Apple - really? Why can't I just have a LIST VIEW of genius mixes again? Just becuase this works doesn't mean it isn't totally combersome and frustrating.
Sometimes a list really IS the best answer. I have to click someplace to see if I've already rated a song while using Genius to randomly play my music? Is the goal to discourage our using Genuis? If so, it's working. And I really sort of liked it...

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My ipod will repeatedly get "stuck" when I rate a song. Hitting the middle-button only scrolls to the rating option again. It sometimes take 4-8 times hitting the middle-button to get it to get un-stuck. My ipod also crashed on me within 2 months of owning it. Could this be indicative of some sort of data corruption or lurking problem waiting to crash my ipod again?
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