Automatically review songs on iTunes

TipsMake.com - As someone who has experienced both Mac and Windows, in my opinion, iTunes is the best music player ever. Its simple intuitive interface is enough to keep me from listening to other music players. Not only that, hidden under that simple appearance is a lot of powerful features.

One of the features of iTunes I like the most is the song evaluation system. Users can rate songs from one to five stars according to their preferences, then can sort or filter the playlist (Playlist) based on the number of stars. Just glance at someone's iTunes list is that you know their favorite songs right away.

The rating system is a great idea. However, there is a big problem: the bigger the library, the harder it is for users to fully evaluate each lesson. Imagine if you could rate the entire list up to thousands of songs?

AutoRate - a powerful assistant

Fortunately, the application called AutoRate will help you solve the problem. This app tries to 'predict' users' listening preferences and automatically evaluates each song by tracking the number of times the song is heard as well as the number of transitions.

The method of evaluation is based on a combination of listening / switching frequency (averaging from the life of each lesson) with the number of listening and transmitting. The more songs that are heard will have a higher number of stars, whereas the ones that are frequently transferred will have fewer stars.

The number of listening and transitions are combined with the time the song is in the music library to determine your preference for each song. The rating will change flexibly depending on your musical taste.

That's why songs that have never been heard will not be scored.>>

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Simple to use

Before using AutoRate, make sure you have iTunes version 7 (or higher), Mac OS X 10.5 (or higher). You can then download and install the application.

The usage is very simple: just open the application, click the Begin button. The program will start analyzing the song list and then automatically score based on the results obtained.

You can change some options as you like through Preferences , such as:

- Select the folder containing the song to be evaluated ( General section)

- Setting up the rating system ( Rating section)

- Rating by intact star image or half-star image ( Advanced )

One final note: you should use AutoRate periodically to keep the rating system in keeping with your music.