Regarding Half-stars in Sequoia Music

This is my first regret after updating to Sequoia just a couple hours ago. "Apple Intelligence" was the bait. But what kind of intelligence thinks it's better to have to rate music -- in effect -- either 80 out of 100 or 100/100, than to have the nuance afforded by 90 out of 100, among other gradations made possible with half stars?

I really want this to be possible again as well (I also hate the new look of the faded stars for anything that isn't rated, although I suppose I'll get used to it).

That said, one sort-of work around that is working in the meantime is to use another app to read/write the star ratings. I've been using an app called Song Rating for a long time that sits in the menu bar and displays the rating of the currently playing song. It has an option to enable half-star ratings, and it will read the proper half-star ratings from the songs when they start playing, while also allowing you to write half-star ratings to the songs by rating it through the app.

Sucks that you still can't see all of the proper song ratings in the list in Apple Music, but at least I know they're still there and am still able to rate that way if they ever come back in a future update.

I'm fairly confident half-stars may work again in the 15.1 release. See https://dougscripts.com/itunes/2021/10/new-batch-rate-with-half-stars-v1-0/ for another tool that can batch rate tracks for you.

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