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Rate whole albums in iTunes Apps
Perhaps this has already been covered, but I could not find another article on it, and I just discovered this randomly.

I was listening to music in iTunes using Grid view, and as I was rating my individual songs within one album, I noticed a row of dots under the actual album that actually allow you to rate the album as a whole -- just click and drag on the dots.

I am not certain if this is new, but I guess I never noticed it and wanted to pass it along in case someone else hadn't noticed it.

[robg adds: I believe this is actually list view with album art showing. In my grid view, I don't see any way to rate an album without using the contextual menu option.]
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Rate whole albums in iTunes
Authored by: conigs on Nov 10, '08 08:10:22AM

I want to say the ability to rate albums has been around since version 6, or one of the point releases in there.

The one thing I really like about album ratings is that if you don't manually rate the album, iTunes will average the ratings for each of the songs and use that.



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Rate whole albums in iTunes
Authored by: processfive on Nov 10, '08 08:17:30AM

It's been my experience that iTunes allows both "estimated" ratings (hollow stars) and user-assigned ratings (filled stars). iTunes will automatically assign an estimated rating to each non-user-rated album based on the average rating of the rated tracks in the album. Likewise, if you specifically rate an album, iTunes will assign that rating as the estimated rating of any non-user-rated tracks in the album. Very cool stuff.



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Rate whole albums in iTunes
Authored by: DougAdams on Nov 10, '08 08:38:54AM

FYI: Album ratings first appeared in iTunes 7.4, released September 6, 2007.

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Rate whole albums in iTunes
Authored by: taxi on Nov 10, '08 02:22:04PM
Absolutely. I even blogged about it 4 days later: iTunes Album Rating.

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Rate whole albums in iTunes
Authored by: DougAdams on Nov 10, '08 04:11:28PM
I blogged about it the next morning. ; ) And so did Kirk.

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Rate whole albums in iTunes
Authored by: kirkmc on Nov 10, '08 10:06:49AM

Dunno, this has always been very obvious to me (at least since 7.4, as Doug points out).

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