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I use star ratings to organise my music library using Smart Playlists but iTunes/Apple Music keeps putting grey stars on songs in my library and then they appear in my smart playlists. How do I turn off this functionality? This has been an issue in iTunes for like 10+ years, surely Apple has addressed it or someone has found a solution.
Please help.
iTunes normally assigns automatic track ratings for unrated tracks on the basis of any manual album rating, and an automatic album rating as a mean average of any manually rated tracks if there is no manual album rating. This may have undesirable effects on ratings based smart playlists, leaving some users looking for a way to suppress auto-ratings in iTunes. In an effort to achieve this I've written the following four scripts. They each work on the current selection of tracks in iTunes. The first two work by replacing computed ratings with a manual rating of 1%, which displays as no stars and should work properly with smart playlists. The second pair restore the default auto-rating behaviour if and when that might be wanted.
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iTunes normally assigns automatic track ratings for unrated tracks on the basis of any manual album rating, and an automatic album rating as a mean average of any manually rated tracks if there is no manual album rating. This may have undesirable effects on ratings based smart playlists, leaving some users looking for a way to suppress auto-ratings in iTunes. In an effort to achieve this I've written the following four scripts. They each work on the current selection of tracks in iTunes. The first two work by replacing computed ratings with a manual rating of 1%, which displays as no stars and should work properly with smart playlists. The second pair restore the default auto-rating behaviour if and when that might be wanted.
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How do I turn off Automatic Album Ratings in iTunes/Apple Music?
