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It's graphical in MC 9.1.  Does the rating column show?  Right click on the title bar above the track list and take a look at which items are checked.  Ratings should have a check mark next to it.

Got me.  Sorry.  Just been searching the forum 'cos I'm sure I've seen this reported before but can't find it.

Post your system info while I scratch my balding head a bit more (hoping for a clever person to jump in!)

Was MC installed on the E drive previously when it worked Ok?

Maybe you could back up your library and data directory then uninstall / reinstall.

It would probably quicker to reinstall than it would to find a simple solution for this.

Maybe you could back up your library and data directory then uninstall / reinstall.

I'm familiar with backing up the library... sometimes I've even been able to restore across various versions of MC9... but by backing up the data directory, are you talking about the Media directory where all my MP3s and AVIs are stored?  Why would a reinstall of MC9 put my data files at risk?

Considering I have nearly 30gb in music alone, data backups are non-trivial.

Quote from: JLee on October 11, 2003, 06:12:10 pm

Maybe you could back up your library and data directory then uninstall / reinstall.

I'm familiar with backing up the library... sometimes I've even been able to restore across various versions of MC9... but by backing up the data directory, are you talking about the Media directory where all my MP3s and AVIs are stored?  Why would a reinstall of MC9 put my data files at risk?

Considering I have nearly 30gb in music alone, data backups are non-trivial.

Your audio files are safe as long as you don't select the option to delete them during the uninstall.  I mean the directory: C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Data which would contain covert art (unless you have it stored inside files).  In fact it also contains your library so if you take a copy of this directory and paste it back afterwards you won't even need to use the backup library feature.

Does this imply there is a way for me to have numeric ratings back? The numbers were fine for me and take up lots less column space to present the same info.

If anyone knows how to modify something and make them show up numeric, please tell me!  Thanks!

Open up the directory containing the Mega-me skin you are using and rename the List_Rating pic to something like List_ratingOLD

Thank you, JLee!!!    

Not only does this give me my numeric ratings, MC9 lets me edit them in the List View again. That's thoughtful programming.

Before you reinstall you could wait until Monday to give Matt a chance to chip in.  I'm sure he'll know the answer.

Any chance you can put us out of our misery Matt?  (Or prove me wrong and say you don't know!) ?

Does it draw the up / down sort arrows on the column headers?

Yes, the sort indicators all look fine.

Does graphical rating work in any view? (Playing Now, Media Library, etc.)

No, I haven't seen any graphical ratings (just numbers) in any view/playlist/smartlist, since I upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1.

We haven't seen this one before, so we're guessing.  Any other clues would be great.

I would imagine that the code defaults to the numeric rating if it can't find the file with the appropiate graphics.  Could it be something related to the way that "main.xml" references the file location?  I've tried putting the file in several locations (main MC9 dir, root skin directory, as well as it's normal location in the same directory with the skin.

I've tried other "ratings" graphics (from the thread referenced in one of my earlier posts), so I doubt if it's a graphics format problem.  And since I've seen the same problem in the other skins....

I'll try installing a new skin next, to see if the "install skin" function sets a value that got corrupted when I upgraded to MC9.1.

Any other suggestions, beyond doing a full uninstall?

Installing the Media Player skin didn't change the ratings... they are still numeric.  It also doesn't seem to matter whether the "Rating" column is the first in the display or not (I saw something about that being a problem for some people).

I've now verified that this problem occurs with every skin that gets installed by default (the Media Player is the first other skin I've ever installed in MC).

Any other suggestions?

this looks like this is going no place

if IDSmoker posted a picture of what he is seeing maybe it may be easyer to figure out what is the problem.

Where do you see them as numeric?  In the content window?

It's the regular main pane (not sure what the proper name for it is) that takes up most of the screen when you have selected a view scheme or play/smartlist.

As an aside, my MC9x installation is pretty generic.  At the moment I'm only using MC to manage my library of music and ebooks and to sync with my iPod.

Other than a large number of smartlists (20 or so), a few of them with custom column arrangements, there really shouldn't be much difference between my setup and a clean install of MC... unless there are some legacy default settings from one of the older versions I've used.

I just have no idea why it's happening.  Looks like reinstall is the only answer.

Yeah, I'm coming to the same conclusion.  

The reason I'm so hesitant to do a clean install, is because the last time I did (over 6 months ago), I lost all of my smartlists.  At the time, the only "Export" function I could find exported them as playlists.  It was a lot of trouble to re-create all of them, and that was 6 months of expanding/tweaking ago!

Is there a working method for backing up/restoring smartlists?  Or is this information also being stored in the "Data" directory you mentioned earlier?