#Song rating how to

If you have this album in your iTunes library, click on its 'go to store' button:.

If you don't own the album in iTunes, search for it and find its page.Load the item you want to rate in the iTunes Store:.This is how you rate an album in the iTunes Store: iTunes will remove the rating, and basically display the item as ' unrated'.Instead of choosing a number of stars as rating, click on ' None'.Right-click on the item, and choose ' Rating' from the menu.Find the song whose rating you want to delete.In addition to changing a rating you assigned in iTunes, you can also remove the rating altogether: For albums, simply click on a new star rating below the album cover and you are done!.For an individual song, just right-click on it, and choose ' Rating' from the context menu.Follow the exact same steps outlined above.

#Song rating how to

Here's how to modify an existing rating after the fact, for individual songs, or entire albums in your iTunes library: Learn how to select groups of items, consecutive or not, in your iTunes library: Complex selections in iTunes. If you have multiple songs selected, not necessarily all from the same album, you can right-click on them and choose a rating, which will be applied to several songs at once. The third song in this album, for example, was individually rated:

In addition, you can tell when a song was rated as part of an album (star outlines as rating), or when the song was given an individual rating (filled star shapes as ratings). As soon as you give your rating, iTunes displays it, in stars, below the album cover.

When the entire album is good (or bad), just click your start rating below the album cover, as shown on the screenshot (how to show the album artwork column in iTunes).

To save time, you can also rate an entire album in one step: Tip: when a song is selected (as is the case in the screenshot above), you can also apply your rating by clicking on the corresponding dot. (To show the Rating column, right-click on any other column header, and click on ' Rating' in the menu that appears.)

After you have applied the rating to the song / track, iTunes will display it in the Rating column.

Using the iTunes Store's current translation of each star-rating: ★ = ' hate it' ★★ = ' don't like it' ★★★ = ' it's ok' ★★★★ = ' it's good', and ★★★★★ = ' it's great'.

Choose the number of stars based on how much you like the item from the submenu, and click on it to apply it.

iTunes will display a checkmark next to the item's current rating: by default, any unrated item in your library has a rating of ' None', as shown on the screenshot above.

Right-click on it, and click on the ' Rating' submenu:.

Locate the item to which you want to give a rating.

Follow the same technique if you use most often one of the other iTunes views, like ' Cover Flow', which always shows columns (including rating) at the bottom, or ' Grid View', which shows ratings (and other columns) after you double-clicked on an album.įollow these steps to rate an item in your iTunes library:.

To hide your iTunes ratings, just right-click on a column header, and uncheck ' Rating' from the menu, by clicking on it.

iTunes will now show the Rating column (you can move it left or right by dragging its header, and releasing the column where you want it displayed).

If ratings are hidden, right-click on another column header, and choose ' Rating' from the context menu.

Once in List view, see if the Rating column is visible (you may need to scroll horizontally).

Of all three iTunes Views, the 'List View' gives you the most information about your songs and albums at any given time click on the List View button, as shown on the screenshot.

This is how you show or hide the Rating column in iTunes: