Remove half-star and bomb ratings?

[Wargazm]

Hi all.

I use ratings in this way:

5 star - favorite albums of all time
4 star - great album, love it.
3 star - pretty good album, I'll listen to it on occasion, could eventually become a 4 star, or it could become a 2 star
2 star - Not good, but I want to give it some more chances to see if it grows on me. but it's in danger of getting deleted
1 star - forget it, this album deserves deletion

I don't use the bomb, and I don't use the half-star ratings (4.5, 3.5, etc). Is there a way to remove or hide these nodes under the ratings section of the library tree?

[Lowlander]

Not that I'm aware off. Unlike the other nodes which only show used values as nodes, the ratings node always shows all values.

[Wargazm]

ok, I didn't think so. thanks.

[Tylast]

This would be useful since my iPod doesn't recognize 1/2 stars.

[nohitter151]

This would be useful since my iPod doesn't recognize 1/2 stars.

Just don't use them!

[Lowlander]

This request is not about removing 1/2 star ratings, but about hiding rating sub-nodes in the Explorer Tree that contain no tracks.

There is a similar request that asks the ability for the user to disable the 1/2 star ratings so that the user doesn't accidentally selects them.

If your device/application doesn't support 1/2 stars the solution would be to not use them as Nohitter151 suggests.

[Agouti]

I've changed all my star ratings over to the whole star only ratings after buying a ipod, which has no half ratings (my one irritation with them), and I must admit I'd like a way to remove the half star nodes.... until then, I've just created 5 auto playlists (with rules being rating = 5 stars, 4 stars, etc) with the appropriate titles (like excellent, good etc) which is almost as good. You could also use *****, **** etc as the names but without being able to use pictures as names I think it's as good as you can expect. I do use the bomb rating, as there are songs which I will never listen too but I keep for the benefit of other people raiding my collection - all done legally of course -.0

My wishlist contribution is more customization of all the preset nodes , much like you can with the classification node. The options are there to remove or whatnot but are greyed out - maybe someone can write a mod, I'm not sure what is possible with that sort of thing.

Oh and one more thing to throw in while I'm a wishing is for the synchronize with your ipod / whatever to be able to copy new songs off it automagically when you plug it in - there is an option to copy across changed songs that you put on there via sync via that particular computer/MM (i'm assuming if you changed the rating or something?), but for instance when I plugged in my ipod, which i had synced from another computer, I would have liked it to have been able to copy accross from the ipod (i solved the issue by copying the folder out by hand then adding/auto organising) and then went through and removed duplicates... but

[ZvezdanD]

I know this is not requested, but just to mention if somebody is interested. You could use the RegExp Find & Replace script to round all ratings with a half star to the lower star, i.e. 2.5 to 2 and so on. Here are settings:
Find what:

Code: Select all

^(?!-1)\d*$

Into: Rating
Regular expression 1: checked
Replace with:

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Round((oSongData.Rating - 1) / 20.0) * 20

VBScript expression: checked

[billfor2]

btw the ipod does recognize half-star ratings. It just doesn't display the 1/2 star. If you have a smart playlist that only plays "greater than 4 stars" and you have a mp3 with 4.5 stars it will show up in the playlist.
Also itunes will show the 1/2 stars, but you can't set a 1/2 star.