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[tdipower]

Hi.

I love the music part in J River, and it handles my music superb.
But I miss one ting in J River that iTunes have. That is an album rating.

I did a search for this and found a thread from 2011 and J River 16.
There it was asked about this feature, but it would not be posible to do this as all songs is single files.
In this thread they where talking about calculating from all ratings of the songs in one album, but no.
I find it strange that Apple manage to do this then...
But anyway, if it would be posible to give a manual album rating that would be good enough.

[Matt]

You can add a library field 'Album Rating' in Options > Library & Folders > Manage Library Fields...

Pick 'Store one value for each album' and 'Five stars' after adding the field.

[MrHaugen]

I use custom fields for Albums as well as artists. The relational option when creating a custom field works very well for this. It woul dnot hurt to have this as defaults though.
The only thing I'm really missing is half star ratings. It's frustrating to have to use double library rating fields with 10 integers to store more granular ratings.

[InflatableMouse]

The problem as I see it with adding a custom field is that this rating is not shown anywhere.

For instance, I can edit the Album cover view to show album rating below the name, but it just shows a number, not the stars. In panes view it shows the album cover, but there is no way to show album ratings below it. In the display view you can show cover art or track info, but nowhere is album rating shown. In theater view, album ratings aren't shown anywhere.

That makes a custom field for album ratings kind of useless as its not shown anywhere in any usable way.

MrHaugen's suggestion, though slightly offtopic, to have half star ratings would be nice. Actually, I would *love* that. Even more than showing album ratings in a useful way .

[wig]

Check out this thread:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=72049.msg487368#msg487368

[rick.ca]

The only thing I'm really missing is half star ratings.

The problem as I see it with adding a custom field is that this rating is not shown anywhere.

Both are solved by using this technique...

Mid(★★★★★, 0, [a.Rating])If(IsEqual(Right([a.Rating], 2), .5),, )

[a.Rating] is an album rating from 1 to 5 in 0.5 increments. The blue expression produces a number of stars equal to the integer part of [a.Rating]. The green expression adds my half star (which displays as '' here) if [a.Rating] ends in '.5'.

The screenshot shows this expression used to show my custom [a.Rating] as stars in the thumbnail caption. The number to the left of the stars is the average album rating, calculated using global variables per the link provided by wig.

[MrHaugen]

Impressive. I'll have to test this once I've settled down after the holiday.

This is very good for presentation. The only problem with using such custom rating fields is that it's probably hard to rate songs and albums in a easy way in theater view, standard view and on the various remote solutions. It's my impression at least. Much harder to work with numbers than a rating star slider. It's possible that certain things like Webgizmo could be altered though.

[locust]

I agree it is slightly unintuivive to give the custom album rating field a value.

I wish we could add a the rating star slider to thumbnail text and also add it to the our custom grouping fields for the details view. That would be the creme de la creme. I did toy with placing it within a column in the detail view but I didn't like having the album rating showing up for every track, so I used the Mid(★★★★★, 0, [a.Rating])If(IsEqual(Right([a.Rating], 2), .5),, ) in my custom grouping field so it would show up only at the top. If we could place a slider there instead it would be immense.

How would this work? Isn't the slider just a set of images. Being able to call upon the html <img> tags and setting the source as our custom album rating field?