| Five stars had long ceased giving me a fine enough grading of iTunes song ratings, so I'd come up with a work around of using playlists in lieu of six or seven stars, but then I started to find that especially the 3-4 gap was too wide to properly manage my alternate coloured Shuffles and the gaps either side similarly problematic which had me wondering about something I'd once seen about fractional ratings. Google quickly got me to Doug Adams' Apple Scripts which provided a simple-to-use script to add or subtract half a star from your ratings, a script which very quickly ran even when I had hundreds of songs selected, so I did some rapid conversions: ✭ ⇒ ½ (the latter being playlist names) then started to slowly migrate songs from either side to: ✭½ so now my music collection has a ten point rating scale, or, more strictly eleven, though, especially in the case of album tracks, no stars is as likely to mean I haven't rated it yet as it is that I've zero rated it. |
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