Set rating stars

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I'm running a Mac OS 10.6.8 on a MacPro 8-core with 16 GB of RAM.
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<data>
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Hello,
This has been a problem on iTunes for me for a while but I only really need to sort it out now.
As you can see in the picture at this link:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Frenchy21320/screenshot.jpg
My rating stars aren't appearing as they should and thus I can't set any smart playlists. This issue is only in the smart playlist creator however.
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Dell 4550 Windows XP

OK sorry I haven't found an answer to you problem. I did some experments on my system and I found that if I lower gracphics hardware accelatation to the level where DirectDraw and Direct3D are disabled, the stars are not displayed.
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Via scripting I'd like to set the Rating (stars) and Label (colors) on photos. I do not see a direct reference for setting these values. My investigation shows that I can get access to them in the raw xmp metadata but I was hoping I would not have to read, parse and restore the xmp XML. Does anyone know of a easier way to set these values ? My end game is to use these values within lightroom. It also does not appear the Bridge provides a good option either as the same metadata is available in Bridge as in Photoshop
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setRating( f, "5" );
setLabel( f, "Green" );
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        loadXMPLibrary();
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Empty / White Rating Stars won't go away

When I rate one or more songs on an album, iTunes automatically gives estimated ratings for the rest of the songs on the album as white or empty stars. Which I don't like.
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Are you talking about "Rating" or "Album Rating"? There appears to be a difference. I didn't even really know what you were talking about and did a Google search. Then I made a smart playlist for myself of all of my songs with and album rating not zero. The vast majority of my library popped up.
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to my fixed disk went defectively, could I by timemachine my albums again manufacture, however unfortunately not the rating star.
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My work flow is to look at the card with Nikon ViewNX2, and assign rating stars to the keepers, then import the keepers
into Lightroom. I can't see the stars in the import dialog, though I can see them once I do the import. LR clearly
understands the rating stars because it can import them. I'd like to be able to see the rating stars in the import dialog and
filter on them at import time. I suspect that there are others out there that would like to filter on color labels and the flags.
Why not use Lightroom for the review? I sometimes don't have the Lightroom computer with me, or any computer at all.
Nikon ViewNX2 is free, and I can install it on whatever computer is handy. It's also fast, and understands dual monitors.
Simliar logic applies to BreezeBrowser and even the free Microsoft software.
There was some discussion of this in http://forums.adobe.com/thread/724396?tstart=0.
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sometimes get "ghost" rating stars against tracks. how can i delete these?

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There is no free, or Apple supported, way to extract any other music.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer. Use your backup copy of your computer to put everything back.
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Grey vs Black Rating Stars (in iTunes) [screenshot]

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6969/screenshot20120221at110.png
MacBook Pro (early 2011)
Mac OS X 10.7.3
iTunes 10.5.3
Hello!
Here on the screenshot, you could see grey and black rating stars in iTunes. If I click on the grey star rating to give it a new or the same rating the stars become black.
So my questions are:
1. What do they mean?
2. How are they different?
3. What could be causing it?
4. Anything else I need to know about this?
Thanks,
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2498439?start=0&tstart=0

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I use it for both desktop and laptop.
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