Comments on: Unrated Songs in iTunes

By: Dennis "Best Songs" James

Dennis "Best Songs" James — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:55:28 +0000

But don’t you have to scroll through every single song in your library? Seems like initially it would take a long time.

By: Michael Paul

Michael Paul — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:24:39 +0000

@Josh: Turning off live updating will in fact get you the same results, but we efficiency freaks are looking for a playlist that only has songs with rating = 0. Thus, say we happen to fall asleep at the wheel and not rate 10 songs, then get back on the bandwagon and rate 5 or 10, only to fall asleep again and miss another 5. You can see that, if we were to go back and rate the unrated songs, the easiest way is to edit the playlist, click the “live updating”, press OK to refresh the list, then edit the playlist again and untick the “live updating” checkbox. It’s much simpler to just create a smart playlist with rating = 0 and live updating turned on, and then set that playlist as the source of your party shuffle. Now… if you wanted to rate songs one by one off of an album from a particular artists, you’re SOL. I think this is for the ADD-prone peeps who just want to ram through their library at random and rate everything.

And for that I say, “thanks for the hot tip!”

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:03:29 +0000

How is this different from just turning off live updating? When I try this tip, the Party Shuffle list doesn’t move to the next song after I rate one. I still have to manually move ahead, just like when I used my Unrated playlist with “live updating” turned off. (v7.5)

I has borken Itunz?

By: Lander

Lander — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:50:33 +0000

I had a similar problem when I migrated from WMP to iTunes and all my song ratings were left in WMP. I wrote a small program to import the ratings and play counts from WMP into iTunes. You can download the program from http://wmp2itunes.blogspot.com/

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:08:35 +0000

Yeesh!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:42:43 +0000

Not so much yet, I’m still going through 2000+ in the Unrated playlist.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:38:10 +0000

And I don’t know if Alex does this, but I re-rate songs as time goes by…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:11:54 +0000

Actually, I normally put everything on shuffle so by rating them I can have the songs I like play more frequently. Tools like Goombah will also mine this data for community recommendations.

By: jason@redwooddesign.com

jason@redwooddesign.com — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:38:38 +0000

find other ways to play and sort music. having tmanually rate them makes no sense since you are going to play what you want to play anyways. At least thats my 2 cents. i can understand it if it some sort of community situation, but for personal means, my preferences change weekly, why rate?

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:52:01 +0000

But the beauty of doing it inside Party Shuffle is that you can rate whenever the mood strikes; running off of an “Unrated Songs” playlist means that you get one pass through before iTunes stops.

By: Jeff Wheeler

Jeff Wheeler — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 13:40:03 +0000

I’ve done this before, however, the problem is that I get distracted so easily and completely forget that music is playing. I will skip rating them after about ten minutes.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:53:30 +0000

Thanks Alex (and Geof)! That tip totally rocks!

By: Chris Pederick

Chris Pederick — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:47:10 +0000

Ah – great tip about the Party Shuffle.

I used to use the Unrated playlist on my iPod because there the playlist does not update immediately.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:47:45 +0000

Yeah, with this, you can mow through stuff reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally fast.