{"id":993,"date":"2012-10-15T07:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:40:46","slug":"itunes-and-half-star-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/itunes-and-half-star-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes and half-star ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I discovered that you could enable half-star ratings in iTunes with a simple Terminal command1<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n

defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE<\/pre>\n
Ever since I enabled that, I’ve been happily half-starring items. \u00a0When your music library runs to well over 40k songs, there is a difference between a five-star song, a four-and-a-half-star song, and a four-star song.<\/p>\n
But then, sometime after I upgraded to Mountain Lion on my work computer, I noticed that all of my half-stars were gone. \u00a0My heart skipped a beat: I’d put a fair amount of work into rating those songs, and the idea of having to go back through and re-doing it made me quite cranky. \u00a0But I love my half-stars, so I quit iTunes, ran that Terminal command again, and re-launched it.<\/p>\n
And then, I discovered that all of my half-star ratings were back. \u00a0Apparently those half-stars weren’t lost, they were just truncated when the correct bit wasn’t flipped. \u00a0Which means I can stop flipping out.<\/p>\n
So, if you ever find yourself in my boat, try re-enabling half-stars with the Terminal command above, and see if iTunes does the right thing. \u00a0I hope it does.<\/p>\n
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  1.  A tip of the hat to The Unofficial Apple Weblog for the original tip<\/a>. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Some time ago, I discovered that you could enable half-star ratings in iTunes with a simple Terminal command1: defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE Ever since I enabled that, I’ve been happily half-starring items. \u00a0When your music library runs to well over 40k songs, there is a difference between a five-star song, a four-and-a-half-star song, … Continue reading iTunes and half-star ratings<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}