May
18
iTunes tidbits: iPod syncing/song rating, ‘Grouping’ field
Question: what happens when you rate a song on the iPod, rate it on iTunes differently, and sync the two? Answer: The iTunes rating prevails even if it took place before the iPod rating. (For the record, playcounts are recorded correctly, since both the extra playbacks on the iPod and on iTunes are added, regardless of rating changes.)
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"Grouping"field maps to an actual field of the ID3 tag,"Content Group Description": which is to say, it’s not data that’s just written to the iTunes database file. That can come handy if you want to edit your tracks in a separate tag editor, or if you want to pass along some of the information from the iTunes DB to your files, as a kind of backup. This forum thread describes how to do with the songs’ ratings.
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