Rating tags in FLAC

[markan]

I noticed that the ratings flags in FLAC seem to be out of 100 so if I rate a track as 4 in MM the FLAC tag says 80. Is that correct?

[Pablo]

I don't use FLAC but the MM database and the MP3 format internally store the rating as a 0-100 value, so this is probably the correct behavior.

[Lowlander]

Rating 4 is stored as 80, that is so for other formats as well. I'm not sure what the standards say.

[markan]

OK. I was just having a look because I am using Irivium to sync FLAC files over to the H340 whilst automatically converting them to WMA. I'm not getting any ratings shown on the resulting WMA files so wanted to check what was happening. Interestingly having just had a look I can see any ratings on my MP3 files at all, do the ID3 tag support rating?

Of course I won't have this problem when MM can handle the conversion when syncing

[Lowlander]

The ratings are stored in the MP3 tags.

The whole rating issue seems a sticky issue as none of the big applications seem to understand each others ratings nor MM's. That's kind of a pitty.

[Peke]

Markan,
Ratings are also written in FLAC Do you see them in Irivium?

If Not I'll be glad to look at one smaller FLAC that have Ratings visible in Irivium.

[markan]

Peke

Thanks for the offer, but as Lowlander says this appears to be a mess. MediaMonkey user a tag called rating and stores a value from 0-100, Tag&Rename also uses rating but stores 0-5. Irivium appears to use a tag called RATING and stores 0-5.

I think I may give it up until MM comes up with a slick way for me to store my library as FLAC but get them onto the H340 as OGG or MP3.

[Peke]

Markan THX, I'll see what Jiri and Rusty have to say about it but it is possible to support reading of Ratings 0-5, but writing it isn't possible as 0-5 do not support 1.5 Rating Which in MM will be 20
We will see If we can figure it out how to make them work without lose functionality in MM I'll make changes to FLAC rating for sure.