Smart playlists and hollow stars

Does anyone know how to make iTunes' smart playlists distinguish between hollow (iTunes generated) and solid (user generated) stars? I like rating albums, but I also want to be able to create playlists that only include tracks with four or five user-generated stars. When I rate an album, iTunes automatically rates all of unrated tracks. As a result, my ratings-based playlists then include these hollow-star tracks, and I don't want them there.
If there is no way to make smart playlists distinguish between hollow and solid stars, is there a way to turn the automatic ratings off?
Thanks for the help with this.

I now do this, it's not a definitive solution, it's rather a tournaround but it works.
If i rate an album with 5 stars, all the songs then go to the smart playlist (with the checked option "only 5 stars songs") even if a single song itself it's not 5 stars, so i rated every song I don't want to be on the playlist with one star so that it will not appear.
Obviously this does not work if you use the 1 star rating for example for songs you like only a little.
hope this helps.
Message was edited by: cecered909

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