![]() As you can see, iTunes then gave the whole album a (blue star) rating of 3 stars and then as a consequence gave all the other songs a greyed-out rating of 3 stars. In the picture above, snapped from my iTunes Library in June 2017, I gave one song a 3-star rating (the blue stars). Look at this one, from 2017, but note that the Rating and the Album Rating columns are swapped compared to the previous pictures: So the reason that I don't use Album Rating is because it is meaningless, whether it is calculated correctly or the Apple way.īut at least now, iTunes doesn't give that average rating to the individual songs, as it used to do. so if one were to give an average album rating to this album, it should be 1, not 3.13 (stars) / 13 (songs) = 1 (that's 13 stars divided by the 13 songs to which the average is going to be applied).2 (songs) at 5 (stars) + 3 (songs) at 1 (star) + 8 (songs) at 0 (stars) = 13 (stars in total).so to assign an "average" to all the songs, as iTunes has done in the screenshot above, the arithmetic is:. ![]() to find the correct average for the complete album, one must use the total number of songs on the album, which is not 5, but (by coincidence) is 13.So while 3 is the correct average for five of songs on the album, it should not be used as an average for the other tracks allocate that average to the items that were used to calculate it.divide that total by the quantity of items used to find the above total: 13 (stars in total) / 5 (starred songs) = 2.6, rounded up, correctly, to 3.determine the total number of stars: 2 (songs) at 5 (stars) + 3 (songs) at 1 (star) gives 10 + 3 = 13.That's not the rating I would give it (no offence to the artist or this specific album by the way).Īverages are correctly calculated as follows: So even though I rated fewer than half of the songs on the album, and only two of them are higher than 1 star, the complete album is "rated" as 3 stars. Look at the following screenshot, when I changed the 3 star rating to 1 star, gave a further two songs 1 star as well, but also gave two songs 5 stars: It appears that a large number of people (and Apple) have no idea how to calculate averages. I had a lengthy discussion with other long-time users here almost six years ago and it left me frustrated and perplexed. But it's not even correct! As far as I'm concerned, that "average" rating is wrong beyond words. It now becomes obvious that iTunes is using the rating of songs to assign an average rating to the album. Back to the main discussion: I subsequently gave a second song a rating of 5 stars, but look what happened to the Album Rating:.(If you think this is bad, older versions of iTunes then took that album rating and assigned it as an individual song rating to each song on the album! So with that version of iTunes, when I rated one song with 3 stars because I liked it, iTunes would give 3 stars to the songs I had not rated because I considered them to be unworthy of any rating at all) I have bought albums for one or two songs, but positively dislike others on the same album, so I specifically do not want the whole album to be rated according to just one song. As you can see, this has caused every song on that album to now be rated with an Album Rating of 3 stars, which I consider to be wrong. I gave one song on an album a song rating of 3 stars. ![]() Notice that none of the songs on the album I'm showing is currently rated:
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