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elgibby

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Android player ratings?
« on: June 02, 2012, 10:29:48 am »

So I lost my iTunes library and with it all of my ratings, as I discovered that the star ratings apparently were not an ID3 standard but proprietary to iTunes (is this correct?).

Now I'm going to use MC and I have to re-rate all 55,000 tracks. Oh joy.

Question: is there an Android player that allows me to star-rate a song on the player and have that rating synced back to MC? (I used to use iSyncr ratings widget with almost any Android player to do this with iTunes.)
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barry
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JimH

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Re: Android player ratings?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2012, 11:00:32 am »

I think you could make playlists in iTunes and get ratings into MC.  Export a 5 star list, then a 4 star list, etc.
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elgibby

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Re: Android player ratings?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2012, 12:18:06 pm »

Jim, I don't have my iTunes library anymore, so I've switched (back, it's been years) to MC.

Are you saying that if I reinstalled iTunes and imported all my music again, the songs' ratings tags would display in iTunes?

Also, I'm looking for a way to have songs rated in MC and synced with my phone to display those ratings on the phone; and to be able to rate unrated songs on my phone and have them sync back to MC.

barry
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Re: Android player ratings?
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2012, 06:36:16 pm »

itunes stores rating field in it's database, not in the file tags.
reinstalling itunes won't bring the ratings back unless you have a backup of the old itunes database files.


Finally there is a music player for android that syncs ratings with some other apps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&feature=related_apps#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwiY29tLnRiaWcucGxheWVycHJvIl0.
I'm hoping MC will be updated to take advantage of this at some point.

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Raphoune

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Re: Android player ratings?
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2013, 10:08:21 am »

Hi !
Any news or plan on that topic ? I really miss ratings sync...
Any way to make it works with a third party app ? (not iTunes please... :) )


Raph
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