Star Ratings: solid stars opposed to empty stars

hello,
i have noticed that when i give star ratings in iTunes that some of the stars fill in and some are left empty in the center. does anyone know what the difference represents?
thanks in advance...

You mean the stars will actually be "turned on" so to speak, but with a hole in the middle, like a star shaped donut?
I know ratings did, and probably still do, support half star ratings. You can not do it in iTunes directly but there are scripts to assign half stars and they will show up as half stars. Perhaps related to that?
Patrick

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I've been long wondering why a lot of the songs in my iTunes library have four-star ratings. I do not rate songs. Never.
Why is this? Why four stars?
What do the ratings do? Are there any effects to anything?
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Ryo,
What is your iTunes version? assuming it is the recent 11.0.4:
Are the rating stars you are seeing solid or just outlines?
Solid ratings can only be applied by pressing one of the stars and setting a rating. Maybe you did that accidentally for some songs.
Outline rating are applied by setting a rating for an album and will show for all songs in the album.
I do not know of any way that will apply ratings without your contributing.
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For example:
Using the rules "Rating is *****" and "Genre is Rock" will give you a smart playlist of your favorite Rock songs.
But it does not influence the songs in any way. Shuffling may favor the higher rated songs, however.
Regards
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You misread that example. The example of "Any" doesn't reflect any track, movie, podcast etc that is a "Nested formula" in a Smart Playlist. You have the ability to tell the play list that "any" or "all" of the criteria must be met using this. The use of this (and the subsequent Album Art ratings which are indented) reflect what you should see.
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As for the album rating when you do one track's rating. That is true that the ratings appear. ...but it doesn't impact my Smart Playlists unless I specifically rate the whole album. ...I am unsure why it is for you? I just tested an album with no ratings. I added a rating and did a very simple playlist looking for that any track by that artist with greater than 1*. ...I am a little cloudy on why that is happening to you. I CAN confirm that if I explicitly rate an album (even without any specific tracks rated) the whole album appears in my playlist.
It appears iTunes handles an explicit "Album Rating" differently than the implied rating that occurs when a single track is rated. Try unranking your individual tracks and then also undoing any "album rating." ...this is a test unlikely to resolve it.
...but the real solution for you seems to be creating a playlist the features "Plays" (greater than or less 0) or even a playlist that focuses on "Skips". There are many options to do this without messing with ratings. It appears you are trying to use ratings in a way that it isn't designed for to some degree. I used to use them similarly but now I expanded the categories I use in Smart Playlist creation. It has really helped.
In your workflow your "Play" would be 0, but your "Skip" should register as 1. Skip is a key metric you can filter by.
I admit I didn't understand the portion of when, why, and how you determine which podcast to remove. You rate items that you want to remove? Sorry on that last part I am confused.

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