Rating

[Linn_addicted]

I am using MM for a couple of years. It is my favourite tool for sorting and changing my FLAC Collection.
However I have a big problems with the rating of MM.
I read that there are problems with high number of records. Currently I have a collection of more than 10.000 records
MM is using a percentage range from 0 to 100.
My tool on the ipad like Kinsky sorts the titles between 0 and 5 stars.
If I change the rating with another tool in the 0 to 5 star range I always get a bomb in the rating.
Is there a tool in MM to change from the percentage range to a the classic star range or can I change the setting to the star range?

Best regards

[Lowlander]

When sync files from MediaMonkey to an Apple Device there should be no problems with the Rating. Definitely there is no correlation between Library size and Ratings. Also the 0-100 scale is an internal one, not one used in files, nor does it matter as MediaMonkey writes to the Apple Device DB itself when syncing.

[Linn_addicted]

May be my question was not precise enough.
I am using MM as the basis for my collection. The 2nd step is ASSET UpNP. Number 3 is a Linn Akurate device.
The only Apple device is the iPad for selecting the files. The apps I'm using is Kinsky from Linn or Songbook.
Both apps have a rating option to select the records (classic number 1 to 5 as a star equivalent).
If the rating has been done by MM all rated files will be higher than 5 stars in theses apps, as even 20 is the minimum (one star equivalent in MM)

Is there a possibility in MM to get rid of the percentage scale?
Is there a tool to convert the percentage scale within MM as a plugin?
The easiest way may a setting in the new version 4.1.

Of course I can do the rating in a differnt tool, but I would like to stick at MM.

[Lowlander]

If the rating has been done by MM all rated files will be higher than 5 stars in theses apps

You have observed this?

What file types are you working with? MP3's ID3 uses a 0-255 scale which is what MediaMonkey uses as well. There's a discussion that indicates this will be implemented a little better according to the standards for ID3: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=40532

[Linn_addicted]

Yes I have observed this.
If you need some images I can provide this pictures.

I am using FLAC files converted by dbPoweramp CD Ripper.
When I used the MM rating logic I can see the percentage rating with MP3tag in the extended tag region under "rating".
3 Stars means 60. Selecting the records with the Kinsky app means a 5 Star rating (60 higher than 5).
Therefore I changed the MM rating to a 1-to-5 star rating via MP3tag. Then the rating is correct at the app but I see a bomb in MM.
I also changed the app. I got the same results with songbook.

Useless to say that I am only using the gold edition MM and I bought all the other tools - not just downloaded.

Thanks for your help. It seems there is no easy to fix solution. I am hoping for MM 4.1.

[Lowlander]

http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0 confirms that MediaMonkey is using a non-standard way for FLAC? I don't know the rational for doing this.

[nohitter151]

http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0 confirms that MediaMonkey is using a non-standard way for FLAC? I don't know the rational for doing this.

The rationale is that there is no proposed standard rating tag for Vorbis comments.
http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment#Reco ... ield_names

[Linn_addicted]

Thanks for the comments.
However if two programms are using the same way of handling rating FLAC files from different vendors I assumed that there is a quasi standard.
Mayby MM can support that way, also.

In the meantime I have to live with the bombs.

[rovingcowboy]

Thanks for the comments.
However if two programms are using the same way of handling rating FLAC files from different vendors I assumed that there is a quasi standard.
Mayby MM can support that way, also.

In the meantime I have to live with the bombs.

Your lucky i want the bombs to show but i dont get them in my ogg files

[nohitter151]

Thanks for the comments.
However if two programms are using the same way of handling rating FLAC files from different vendors I assumed that there is a quasi standard.
Mayby MM can support that way, also. .

But if MM changes to a 0-5 system for vorbis comments, this means there will be no way to support half-stars, which is a key in MM.