You can assign ratings to songs in iTunes ranging from 1-5 stars. But why would you want to do that? If you've got a large library, it's going to be a lot of work.
Well, there are a few reasons to rate songs:
- To create Smart Playlists
- To improve Party Shuffle
Smart Playlists
Smart Playlists are a kind of automatically created playlist that iTunes can generate based on criteria you create. One kind of Smart Playlist that can be created is based on the rating assigned to songs. As a result, you can create a Smart Playlist that includes all of your 5-star rated songs, and automatically adds new songs to the playlist as you rate them 5 stars.
Party Shuffle
One of the features of Party Shuffle (learn more about Party Shuffle) is to play highly rated songs more often. My rating the songs in your iTunes library, you'll ensure that Party Shuffle plays songs you like more often.
How to Rate Songs in iTunes
OK, now that you're convinced, here's how you rate songs in iTunes. It's very simple.
If you look at your music library in iTunes, you'll see that one of the columns is titled "My Rating."
If you single click on a song in iTunes, it will be highlighted and in the My Rating column, you'll see 5 little dots. Each one of those represents a star you can assign to the song. To rate is one star, click the dot closest to the left. To assign 5 stars, click the dot all the way to the right (other ratings are based on the dots in the middle, of course).
Once you've done that, there's no need to save or make other changes. Once you've rated the song, the star rating will stay unless you change it.
