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Raj More
Raj More

Reputation: 48018

Read Rating From ITunes, write it to file

I have songs in iTunes on my MacBook pro that I have rated from one-start to five-star. When I open the songs in my DJ software, it doesn't show the ratings because iTunes doesn't write them to the ID3 tag, but just keeps it within iTunes.

I have figured out that I can read the rating by doing this:

tell application "iTunes"
    set songRating to get rating of current track
end tell
return songRating

Also, I can get the location by doing this:

tell application "iTunes"
    set songLocation to get location of current track
end tell
return songLocation

How do now use the file path that I have to write the rating into the ID3 tag of the file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 544

Answers (1)

adamh
adamh

Reputation: 3292

You could set the comment tag to the rating, that should be readable in a 3rd party app.

e.g,

tell application "iTunes"

    set comment of the current track to "rating:" & (get rating of current track)

end tell

Ratings are percentage values, i.e, 2 stars == 40.

Upvotes: 1

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