Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

[rhanneman]

Hello, I recently downloaded MusciBee and I'm trying to figure out two problems. The first one is how to import the ratings in my metadata into musicbee. I have been using WinAmp for years and my ratings are saved in the metadata as "rating WMP." MusicBee didn't read any of that metadata, and I'd really prefer to not re-rate 20,000 songs manually.

My second question is, how do I get those ratings to appear in the music tab next to the title of the song? NOT while the track is playing, in the library next to the title of the song, where the circle is in the image. I have read about a dozen answers here and none of them have been even remotely helpful. Most of them say that I should right click and go to customize panel, then enable "show track ratings" but that isn't any option anywhere I can see. Edit: I found the "compact grid" and "detailed list" options, so while I'm not as fond of the layout there, it's serviceable and shows the information I need.

[Steven]

can you send me a link to a couple of files and let me know what the rating is

[rhanneman]

can you send me a link to a couple of files and let me know what the rating is

Where should I upload the files to sen them to you? If it helps, I'm viewing the metadata through mp3tag. Depending on if MusicBee saves rating as metadata to the file, I can probably edit it en masse that way if need be.

[phred]

Mediafire is free and easy to use without the need to register.

[tjinc]

For your second question:

When using 'Compact Grid' option, click on panel header (Album and Tracks) > Set Displayed Fields (and select 'Rating').

[rhanneman]

Mediafire is free and easy to use without the need to register.

Cool! I uploaded a couple songs, hopefully that will help make it more clear. Thank you in advance for your help.

Song 1
Song 2
Song 3

[rhanneman]

For your second question:

When using 'Compact Grid' option, click on panel header (Album and Tracks) > Set Displayed Fields (and select 'Rating').

Thank you very much, that gave me the exact results I wanted. I greatly appreciate the information.

[Steven]

if you are not using the store version of mb, you can apply this patch
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

[rhanneman]

if you are not using the store version of mb, you can apply this patch
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

I don't understand what you mean by the store version. I'm using the version I downloaded from this site (version 3.6.9202).

[karbock]

I don't understand what you mean by the store version. I'm using the version I downloaded from this site (version 3.6.9202).

What you have is the "Installed" version, since your version number doesn't end with a letter.
A "Portable" version number ends with a "P".
A "Store" version number ends with an "S".
Patches can be applied to an Installed or a Portable version.

MB can be installed through Microsoft Store: that is the "Store" version.
Its (only) advantage is that you don't have to care about upgrades: they are performed automatically.
But on the other hand there are disadvantages:
- the Store version is updated less often
- you can not apply patches to it, so you have to wait for an official release
- its subfolders and setting files are hidden to the user

[rhanneman]

I don't understand what you mean by the store version. I'm using the version I downloaded from this site (version 3.6.9202).

What you have is the "Installed" version, since your version number doesn't end with a letter.
A "Portable" version number ends with a "P".
A "Store" version number ends with an "S".
Patches can be applied to an Installed or a Portable version.

MB can be installed through Microsoft Store: that is the "Store" version.
Its (only) advantage is that you don't have to care about upgrades: they are performed automatically.
But on the other hand there are disadvantages:
- the Store version is updated less often
- you can not apply patches to it, so you have to wait for an official release
- its subfolders and setting files are hidden to the user

I see, that's good information to have. I'm still not clear on what this patched version will do to help with my problem. Does it change the way MusicBee reads metadata?

[karbock]

I'm still not clear on what this patched version will do to help with my problem. Does it change the way MusicBee reads metadata?

Steven made this patch precisely to address the issue you had raised.
So, you can trustfully apply the patch to your install and check if the metadata stored by Winamp is now correctly read by MusicBee.

[Steven]

you will need to rescan existing files in your library using right click/ Send To/ Rescan Files