Comments on: Windows Script: iTunes: Rate Current Track

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:29:07 +0000

Paul: I can’t do the auto-rating of songs for 2 reasons:
* At work, I frequently forget to pause iTunes when I go to meetings.
* At home, I frequently need to skip over songs that the rest of the family doesn’t like.

Besides… I like writing random pieces of code… it’s fun. Thank you for the pointer to the OSX apps sites.

By: Paul Turnbull

Paul Turnbull — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:17:56 +0000

See and I would say that the benefit of third-party apps is that don’t require me to write any scripts. :)

I have actually written/adapted Applescripts that do auto-rating of songs in iTunes based on whether you let a song play through or skip it. That’s my preferred method of using ratings as then songs float up and down on their won based on how often I let them play. Unfortunately the latest versions of iTunes have broken the scripts and I haven’t gotten around to fixing them.

Oh and to find OS X apps try MacUpdate.com or VersionTracker.com rather than Google.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:19:15 +0000

Paul: Oddly, I didn’t find either of those when I searched (have I mentioned I suck at Google searches?) I found iTunesKeys but found it was buggy. The benefit of the scripting solution is that it doesn’t require any 3rd party apps.

By: Paul Turnbull

Paul Turnbull — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:14:31 +0000

On Windows are there are any apps like Synergy or Sizzling Keys ( OS X ) that assign universal hotkeys to rate the currently playing song. I’ve used synergy for years for this.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:28:02 +0000

Anonymous: Yep. It’s the same on Windows. After some experimenting I’ve determined that the interface will display 1/2 stars, but not other fractions.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:16:47 +0000

On the mac, at least, iTunes supports 1-100 ratings, and each star is actually 20. There’s just no interface to let you set 23 point ratings.