howdy y'all,

the question i am wanting some help with is this ...
- should i clobber ALL album ratings or should i only set to "1" those that were set by the nasty album auto-rating routine?

itunes has a way to determine that - it's the AlbumRatingKind value for each track. you can easily set the album rating in one of the album views. that means some folks might be really annoyed if they run a script that destroys their work! [grin]

a bit of detail ... i'm writing a powershell script to set the AlbumRating for tracks to 1.

the script takes advantage of how itunes stores and uses the AlbumRating value. stars are stored thus ...
0 = 0
1 = 20
2 = 40, etc.

plus a coupla other points ...
- if you set the AlbumRating to 1, smart playlists treat that as zero stars.
- if the AlbumRating is set "manually" then automatic album rating is disabled for that track [and thus for that album].

take care,
lee