Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I have got (at last count) 5715 tracks in my iTunes library. I have rated 1988 of these, or around 35%.

Show Duplicate Songs tells me I have 409 duplicates. (Maths tells me I have at least one triple!). I have 225 unrated duplicates, so I have rated nearly half of the duplicate songs. Whilst some of the duplicates are live versions, and I may not like one or other version quite as much, it’s a fair bet the ratings would be similar, if for instance the tracks were the same, but were from best-of albums, compliations and the like.

So, it might be nice to have a program that gets all of the tracks that are duplicates, but at least one of them has a rating (and at least one of them doesn’t), and apply the rating from the rated one to those that don’t have ratings.

Of course, you could have it that if there were three songs, and two of them were rated, that the third gets the average rating of the other two.

I may write an AppleScript that does this.

Rag Doll • Songs About Jane • Maroon 5

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I’ve included the ability to rate the previously playing song in 0.7

When iTunesRater knows the current song, and the previous song, it will activate a checkbox: Show Previous. Clicking this button will open a drawer with the details of the previous played song, which can be rated.

I seem to have made the whole thing run a bit slower now, I’m going to refactor everything at some stage. But not right now…

Edit: Whoops! Big bug there - if a track doesn’t have artwork, iTunesRater spits it bigtime…fixed now though. Get 0.75 from iTunesRater0.75.zip.

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Whenever I listen to iTunes now, I have iTunesRater running, and attempt to rate tracks as I hear them. I have my Unrated playlist running through Party Shuffle, and have to rate each song before it ends.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to rate the previous song.

I’ll try to code this into iTunesRater….

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I just had a thought. It’s relatively well known that the Xbox 360 will be using a PowerPC chip, since the development units are all Macs.

But Apple is moving it’s product range to Intel. Doesn’t it seem bizarre that Microsoft is moving to PowerPC, while at the same time Apple is moving to Intel.

Unless the Macintoshes that were the development platform are actually already running on Intel chips.

Oooohhh…

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