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Strange problem with my iPod (30Gb 5th generation) and iTunes 7 (running on Windows).
My iPod is full to capacity with just music. I rate music as a listen so that I can delete songs I don't like and replace them. I use the iPod rather than iTunes as "master" of my music (which I've been told is a bad idea, but that's another story).
Every evening I plug the iPod into the computer so that I can scrap tunes I don't like. I don't use any auto-syncing at all - it's all manual.
This usually works fine. But yesterday, I plugged in the iPod and found that about half of the (roughly 4,000 tunes) I had previously rated had reverted to no rating, and lots of them had had their ratings jumbled. Many had half ratings, which I've never used or even seen before.
This is a royal pain in the arse. I've searched around a bit on the web for answers to this and it seems that quite a few people have had a similar problem. Some thought it was related to rebooting an iPod (which I had done several times yesterday), others to not having used it for a couple of days, others that ratings had been "bumped up" one song or two. But no one seemed to have an answer.
Two questions
1 - does anyone know what the **** this is all about?
and more important, 2 - is there any way I can get my ratings - which took months to sort out - back?
Thanks in advance -
Tom

I don't use any auto-syncing at all - it's all manual.
You indicate you are not using auto-sync, which is most likely the root of your problem.
When using auto-sync, if you rate a track on the iPod... the rating will be be maintained and sync back to your iTunes library.
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