I thought I'd have a go at updating my TrackInfo Plugins to include the new tags that have been added since MC28 saw the light of day and add in handling of the Rating10 field/tag.
Like most TrackInfo Plugin Authors I was using images for the rating with a tooltip to display the numeric value of that rating.
However I thought I'd reduce the amount of code needed to display both the Rating and Rating10 fields/tags by displaying them as Numeric Values, but only if those fields/tags contained values.
When it comes to the Rating10 field/tag, which is set up as integer with an edit type of 10 stars and only accepts the values 1 thru 10, the field/tag was only being displayed if it contained a value (just like any other filed/tag that is defined as integer and empty)
But when it came to the Rating field/tag if it contained data the number of stars was displayed but for tracks that I'd deliberately removed the rating from not only was the field/tag name being displayed but also the phrase "? stars".
After spotting that, I got a bit curious and had a look at the MC supplied "Audio -- Task -- Not rated" smartlist and noticed that it was looking for files/tracks where the Rating is 0, the default value for an empty integer field/tag.
I then decided to remove the Rating from a track that had already been played and looked in the Tag Window to see what was being reported in the General Section the RatingTag/Field was present but showing no value/image and there was no mention of the Rating Tag in the Tag Dump Section.
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Topic: Unexpected value returned by TrackInfo_Insert(Rating) when rating is blank (Read 440 times)