Dave,
I know you weren’t really involved in the whole ratings debate, but it does seem a bit annoyingly mixed up at the moment. I’m not sure if it’s still a work in progress and who is working on it, so not sure where else to post. Anyway, here’s the current state as I see it:
There’s now both a Rating and a My Rating setting. This is consistent with movies where people both like to see the IMDB rating and their own. I can understand that, but for music I don’t really care about other people’s taste and just want MY ratings to organise my library and create my playlists. It would be really nice to be able to suppress one of the rating options, but that’s not the main issue.
I rate each of the tracks on albums and save those in the tags of my mp3s. I use half ratings and therefore have always been able to both create ‘half-stars’ in iTunes and use them to create smart playlists. Importing these tracks into Krypton these are coming in as a 1 – 10 rating, and they are populating the My Rating setting. So 3.5 in iTunes becomes 7 in Kodi. I use MediaElch to manage my albums, and have used the Rating setting there to rate each of my albums. These are being imported to Krypton in a 1 -5 grade with half-marks and into the Rating setting.
Now, I know that some will say I shouldn’t be using MediaElch in that way, or I shouldn’t have used halves in iTunes, or whatever. But I think most people have probably got individual ways of doing things, because music never did work like movies. So, I’ve really got 4 issues:
1. It seems inconsistent to have tracks on a 1-10 scale and albums on a 1-5 scale. Or is there something about the scanning of the DB that I’m missing.
2. It’s a shame if star ratings have gone and everythings now going to be in numbers – just a design thing – I like stars not numbers.
3. Programs like MediaElch don’t have a My Rating option built into them. Maybe they will develop one to be consistent with Kodi but at present I don’t want to edit every album’s nfo and will need to think of some way to move the Rating field to the My Rating field. Probably not important in the short-term but the danger is inadvertently choosing update album information and having all my playlists updated with other people’s music tastes rather than my own. However, it would be easier if there is a way to alter the mapping of database import so the My Rating field picked up my current NFO’s Rating tag.
4. If the above is possible could there be a way to remove the duplication by suppressing the Rating option as it will get a little annoying having both in every playlist creation menu.
If you know anything about what’s going on with this I’d be grateful as it is quite a critical bit of the music section of Kodi.