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AIMP for PC => Вопросы / Questions => Topic started by: Noer on December 31, 2021, 23:33:42
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Hi, I'm a new user finally making a switch from long-dead WinAmp, and I'm already beating myself for not switching sooner. So far I managed to easily recreate all the Winamp's functionality (and then some) except for this rather annoying problem. If an MP3 file has an embedded rating that contains half-stars (set through MusicBee, for example), the rating doesn't seem to show up in AIMP at all.
WinAmp also didn't see half-star ratings, but at least it was able to round them up (showing 3.5-star rated files as 4.0-star ones, and so on). Is there something I'm missing, or is it impossible to read half-star ratings right now? Half the songs in my library have half-stars for fine-turing playlist generation, so I'd really appreciate if someone could help me with this.
Thanks in advance.
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This is automatic rating that is based on playback count. You can disable it in app settings
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Thanks for the reply. It wasn't quite it, but it did help me to figure out the problem. In case someone else encounters this: the ratings didn't show because the files weren't added to the database. Once I set to add them to the AIMP database as soon as they started playing (Preferences->Player->Music Library->Add file to the database when->Start playback), the playlist started to update and show the ratings for every played file.
I got confused because full-star files I had were already added to the database (through another option), and the new, half-starred ones I kept adding would not. I don't know if it's feasible, but it would be great to have yet another option: add files to the database as soon as you drop them into the playlist, so you can see the ratings right away without playing them first.
Oh, and another related option that appears to missing (unless it's me who missed it) is to disable auto-calculated ratings completely. Right now I set it to calculate the stats for the past 365 days, but I'd just prefer to always rate manually because auto-calculated ratings make it more difficult to see the unrated files that still need a rating.
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This is automatic rating... You can disable it in app settings
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This is automatic rating... You can disable it in app settings
Sorry, my English is good but I still occasionally misread things. I misunderstood the "Show rating instead of user defined rating, if user rating is not set" option as "show embedded ratings when no auto-ratings are not set" (because it's in the calculate rating section), when it probably means "show auto-ratings when there are none, embedded or otherwise". Of course this toggled off the auto-ratings. Silly me.