See, once I've rated (on a scale of 1 to 5 stars) a good deal of my music library, I can start to do cool things with it. Like make a smart playlist that only gives me songs rated 3 stars or above. Or use AutoFill to load an iPod Shuffle (which I don't have yet but will soon) with only my most favorite music. I can listen to all my top-rated jazz, or rock, or hip-hop, or whatever. It's going to be great.
Rating songs in iTunes is easy, and it's a great way to kill time -- think of the fun you'll have while procrastinating at the library this semester! Here's how it works:
- First, pull up your iTunes Library and make sure you can see the "My Rating" column.
- If it's not there: Choose the "Edit" menu, then "View Options" from the bottom of that list. Make sure "My Rating" is checked.
- To rate a song, highlight a song in iTunes and click the number of stars you want in the "My Rating" column.
- I have been rating songs by playing through all my music on shuffle. When a song comes up I want to rate, I hit
Apple-L(that'sControl-Lfor you Windows folks) and iTunes finds the song and highlights it for me.
- In iTunes, choose the "File" menu, then "New Smart Playlist..."
- Check "Match the following condition" and select "My Rating" from the left-most drop down.
- Specify how you want this playlist to choose music -- greater than a certain rating? Less than? Only right at a certain rating?
- Make sure "Live updating" is checked.
- Click "OK," and your playlist will appear in the Source column of iTunes. Now any songs that match your criteria will show up in this list, automatically. It's magic!
2 comments:
This has nothing to do with iTunes ratings (cool idea, though), but ... I wanted to point out that the Apple store in the MALL OF AMERICA is OUT of iPod Shuffles. Why? Because they only got a shipment of a HALF BOX. Seriously. I'm pissed. No new toys this weekend :(
Molly
LAME.
So far, I am still sitting on my wallet (so to speak), but I really want an iPod shuffle. I'll race you!
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