iPod: Song Ratings

[FadedMaster]

I like the ability to rate music on my iPod while I listen to it and have it update in my library.  This is a feature which was supported in iTunes.  I noticed that this is not a feature that is in MusicBee.  I searched the forums to make sure that no one else has mentioned this, and found the following:

- remove 2 way rating auto-synch support for iPods - now only the iPod rating is updated with no attempt to update the main library rating if changed on the iPod

http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=551.msg6220#msg6220

I was wondering if there was any possibility to re-implement this feature, or provide it as an option.  I'm sure there was a reason to have it dropped.

Thanks ahead.

[Steven]

i'll put it back as an option. It was causing some people unexpected behaviour

[FadedMaster]

Thanks.  It also seems that ratings made inside MusicBee don't show up on my iPod.  So it looks like the ratings don't sync between them at all.

[FadedMaster]

I was wondering if you added this as an option in the new beta.  I looked through but I didn't see anything.

[Steven]

its in the latest beta. But please try out to confirm its ok

[FadedMaster]

100% perfect.  Ratings were updated in my library and on my iPod and with no errors.  160GB iPod Classic by the way.

[jtoz]

I was hoping for this exact feature and noticed it was included on the most recent beta, but it doesn't seem to work on my ipod nano, 3rd-gen.  Is there a setting I need to tick?  I can see the track in the library's playlist without a rating, but with a rating when look at the same track on the ipod.

[jtoz]

  I just found the setting.  Seems to work from Library to iPod, but not vice versa.

[Steven]

if you have 2-way rating synched in the auto-synch settings it works as follows:
- on doing a full synch, it will transfer the rating to the ipod if changed in the main library
- if the rating on the ipod has changed since the last synch and is unchanged in the main library, it will synch the rating to the main library
- but you need to have done at least one auto-synch with the 2-way rating option enabled first

[jtoz]

OK.  I must be doing something wrong.  I still cannot get this to work on my ipod nano 3G.  Tonight I was on my way home from work listening to my "NANO PLAYLIST" which I sync between MB and the ipod.  I heard the song "Wormhole" by Guided by Voices and gave it a 5-star rating (previously unrated) and got home and plugged into my PC and sync appeared to occur.  5-star rating not recorded (and couldn't even see it on the ipod device in MB).  Refreshed, re-scanned...no difference.  No rating recorded on either side (when viewed thru MB, the ipod did still show the 5-star rating after I had ejected).

Then to test, I gave the track in the PC library a 4-star rating and did a sync...success.  4-stars appeared in both the library and the NANO PLAYLIST and therefore on the ipod.  I do have 2-way sync enabled.  I do not have the library continuously monitored.

Any thoughts?  

cheers.