Feature request #365: Support for showing/settting half-star ratings in iTunes

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1. Greg Hurrell 2006-02-17T07:16:51Z

   Thanks for submitting the request/report, Aaron.

   There are really three separate issues here so I've split this into three different issues.

   1. The total non-display of any rating which is not a whole-star multiple (a bug). I hadn't noticed that myself but will check it out right now. I've opened a separate report for this one (bug #366).

   2. The feature request for half-star hot keys. We'll leave this issue that you've opened for that (#365). For the record, Synergy Advance already supports both the setting and display of half-star ratings, and in fact you can make it set stars using an even finer interval if you want (although half-star is the finest resolution that you'll be able to see in the display). The currently released version has the support for setting such ratings and partial support for displaying them (ie. in hot keys bezels); the soon-to-be-released version has enhanced support for display of such ratings (ie. in Growl notifications and elsewhere).

   3. The feature request for empty hot key slots. I've opened a separate report for that (feature request #367)

2. Greg Hurrell 2006-07-05T02:07:15Z

   Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

   https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

3. Jeff Shepherd 2006-09-15T13:30:57Z

   I'll add a "Me too" to this feature request. iTunes (since 6.0.2 apparently, but I have only been using it since 7) will display the fraction 1/2 instead of a star if there are half ratings.

   I'd be happy if Synergy simply displayed half-star ratings, but it would be nice to give Synergy the ability to assign them. There is already functionality for setting a certain star rating, so the ability to increment that rating up or down (either by a whole star or a half star) would be nice.

4. bugzilla user 444 2007-05-12T18:16:16Z

   (In reply to comment #1)

   Thanks for submitting the request/report, Aaron.

   There are really three separate issues here so I've split this into three different issues.

   1. The total non-display of any rating which is not a whole-star multiple (a bug). I hadn't noticed that myself but will check it out right now. I've opened a separate report for this one (bug #366).

   2. The feature request for half-star hot keys. We'll leave this issue that you've opened for that (#365). For the record, Synergy Advance already supports both the setting and display of half-star ratings, and in fact you can make it set stars using an even finer interval if you want (although half-star is the finest resolution that you'll be able to see in the display). The currently released version has the support for setting such ratings and partial support for displaying them (ie. in hot keys bezels); the soon-to-be-released version has enhanced support for display of such ratings (ie. in Growl notifications and elsewhere).

   3. The feature request for empty hot key slots. I've opened a separate report for that (feature request #367)

   Well, Synergy Advance displays half-star ratings fine, but I can't figure out any way to use it to increase/decrease ratings by 1/2 star. The way I use it now (using a hacked version of the quicksilver "increase rating" script) is to set the rating using 1-5 stars (cmd-shift-1 through 5) and then increase/decrease by 1/2 star from there.

   (Ditto for this feature request! It's the one thing that's keeping me from switching completely from the Quicksilver implementation (which is just too slow)).

5. Greg Hurrell 2007-05-14T09:35:48Z

   (In reply to comment #4)

   Well, Synergy Advance displays half-star ratings fine, but I can't figure out any way to use it to increase/decrease ratings by 1/2 star. The way I use it now (using a hacked version of the quicksilver "increase rating" script) is to set the rating using 1-5 stars (cmd-shift-1 through 5) and then increase/decrease by 1/2 star from there.

   If you're using Synergy Advance 0.4 then you can assign hot keys for "increase" and "decrease rating", and under the "Advanced" pane in the preferences set the "Rating change step" to 10 instead of the default 20. This allows you to move ratings up and down by half-star intervals via hot keys. For more info see:

   https://wincent.dev/a/products/synergy-advance/help/preferences/advanced/#rating-step

   In Synergy Advance 0.5b that setting still works but the preferences UI has been (and still is being) rearranged so you'll have to make the setting using the terminal:

   defaults write com.wincent.SynergyAdvance RatingChangeIncrement -int 10

   This is only temporary; full access to all the settings via the UI will be restored once the preferences rework is all done.

   I'm also looking at other ways of allowing users to set half-star ratings (additional hot keys, and via the menu). See feature request #240.

6. Marc 2008-01-04T09:43:28Z

   I'm very, very happy with Synergy, for years already. But I'm also waiting for years to the half-star rating being implemented in Synergy. I know it's been implemented in Synergy Advance but that keeps on being under development... I'm used to rate everything in a scale from 1 to 10, so a song rating of 7, would be a three-and-a-half star. Simply be able to hit ctrl-command-7 would be great!! Would that be difficult to implement in Synergy? It just seems nothing more to me than adding five more Hot Keys in the Synergy control panel... (Already I've attached ctrl-command-0 to a 5-star rating (10), ctrl-command-8 to 4-stars, etc.)

   (In reply to comment #1, February 2006)

   Thanks for submitting the request/report, Aaron.

   There are really three separate issues here so I've split this into three different issues.

   1. The total non-display of any rating which is not a whole-star multiple (a bug). I hadn't noticed that myself but will check it out right now. I've opened a separate report for this one (bug #366).

   2. The feature request for half-star hot keys. We'll leave this issue that you've opened for that (#365). For the record, Synergy Advance already supports both the setting and display of half-star ratings, and in fact you can make it set stars using an even finer interval if you want (although half-star is the finest resolution that you'll be able to see in the display). The currently released version has the support for setting such ratings and partial support for displaying them (ie. in hot keys bezels); the soon-to-be-released version has enhanced support for display of such ratings (ie. in Growl notifications and elsewhere).

   3. The feature request for empty hot key slots. I've opened a separate report for that (feature request #367)

7. Greg Hurrell 2008-01-04T11:09:59Z

   Getting and setting half star ratings isn't the hard part. Ratings are stored internal as numbers from 0-100 so it's no hard to use values like 0, 10, 20, 30 etc, than it is to use ones like 0, 20, 40.

   The hard part is the UI issue. Adding many more hot keys (or even one more hot key!) will require the hot keys interface to be totally redesigned and that's the blocker for now...

8. anonymous 2008-09-17T16:48:32Z

   I'd like to request that the Floater be able to display half-star ratings. Right now, the floater displays a 4 1/2 star rating as five stars.

   Great work, otherwise, and keep it up!

9. yugenro 2008-09-17T16:53:48Z

   I'd like to see 1/2 star ratings in the floater. Right now, for instance, a track rated 3.5 stars displays in the floater as 4 stars.

   Ohterwise, great app, and keep it up!

10. Greg Hurrell 2009-12-22T01:59:22Z

    Closed ticket #1409 as a duplicate of this one.

11. Greg Hurrell 2009-12-22T02:00:28Z

    Summary changed:

    • From: REQUEST: Support for showing/settting half-star ratings in iTunes
    • To: Support for showing/settting half-star ratings in iTunes

12. Greg Hurrell 2010-06-18T11:30:46Z

    Closed ticket #1581 as a duplicate of this one.

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