iPod Do you use song ratings?

[Black Belt]

...since there's no way on an ipod to add songs to playlists (other than on-the-go) or remove them.

Actually you can by using the checkbox. I use smartlists by artists, but I uncheck songs I don't really want going up to the iPod.

 

[Osarkon]

Nope, I've never seen a use for it. I have a smart playlist for songs that have never been played or have a play count of less than say 5, but that doesn't need ratings.

Besides, 20Gb's worth of music is a lot to go and rate, especially with my diverse collection.

 

[saxman]

I never have, although I can see the advantages. I have a rather large library and for some reason I keep moving it around (local, firewire, networked windows box on FAT32, NTFS, HFS). I've heard that the ratings don't travel with the files, so I'm glad I don't use it since that would be frustrating to loose. Although now that I seem to be set with my library on a HD attached to my AEBS, I might try it

 

[crazytom]

* for return

I just use the 1 star rating for the songs that I hate and flag them to try to sell them back from the RIAA. For some reason, they'll sue the pants off of someone (or extort money from them) because they think some songs are worth something, yet they won't buy them back...even at a discount....

 

[1020]

I do rate my songs. It helps with different live recordings of the same song, etc. Also useful for smart playlists. I have 21 Tom Waits albums, and a smart playlist with only 5-star songs from those albums. It's so much easier to enjoy music when you don't have to skip tracks every few minutes.

5 Stars - Favorites
4 Stars - Good songs
No rating - Everything else

 

[milo]

Actually you can by using the checkbox. I use smartlists by artists, but I uncheck songs I don't really want going up to the iPod.

How do you check or uncheck songs on an ipod?

 

[cbtscheid]

I wish I had the time

I'm just now moving all my music from my cd collection. That alone is taking up more time than I have. I can't imagine the time it would take to then rate all those songs. Sounds like a good project for after I retire.

 

[Tom B.]

I rate all my music, and I find it very useful.

5 Star: Great

4 Star: Good

3 Star: OK

2 Star: Bad

1 Star: Awful

But I never rate podcasts or any kind of videos.
If your only reason for not rating songs is the time it would take, don't forget that you can rate songs on you iPod as well.

 

[jabrowntx]

I rate pretty much everything.

5 - The best of the best. About the only playlist I listen to in the car anymore is "Favs" - all 4 & 5 star ratings not played for 30 days (I have 2200+ of these)
4 - Good song that I probably wouldn't skip if it came up randomly but I wouldn't necessarily play it over and over.
3 - Okay song which I'd skip depending on mood.
2 - Meh, song I'd listen to if there wasn't anything better to listen to.
1 - I reserve this one as a way to mark duplicates that are part of albums but have been previously rated.

About the only songs I don't have rated (yet) are from my Christmas music collection that are only listened to for about 2-3 weeks a year.

 

[mBurns]

I've never used the feature. Maybe I should give it a try...

 

[kuebby]

I've never used the feature. Maybe I should give it a try...

It really is a good way to organize your music, I have come to love smart playlists.