This is what I do, and it works great for me. As irkusk mentioned, mp3s have metadata attached to them. One of the fields available is "comment". I don't know about WinAmp, but iTunes allows you to search, filter, and modify comments of each of your files. The comment of one of my mp3s would look something like this: energetic, montage, 4 where "energetic" and "montage" are my personal tags for the file, and 4 is my personal rating. I then set up smart playlists that contain only files with certain tags in the comments section. This way, I can transfer my whole collection of songs, search by comment:4, add a star rating of 4 for those files, and I'm done recovering my star rating. Smart playlists are transferrable, but even if they weren't, they only take a few seconds to create from scratch. If WinAmp has a way to bulk modify, filter, and search the comments field, this will work for you, too!
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- Comment on MP3 Ratings? (2008-08-02 01:47:18)
This is what I do, and it works great for me. As irkusk mentioned, mp3s have metadata attached to them. One of the fields available is "comment". I don't know about WinAmp, but iTunes allows you to search, filter, and modify comments of each of your files. The comment of one of my mp3s would look something like this: energetic, montage, 4 where "energetic" and "montage" are my personal tags for the file, and 4 is my personal rating. I then set up smart playlists that contain only files with certain tags in the comments section. This way, I can transfer my whole collection of songs, search by comment:4, add a star rating of 4 for those files, and I'm done recovering my star rating. Smart playlists are transferrable, but even if they weren't, they only take a few seconds to create from scratch. If WinAmp has a way to bulk modify, filter, and search the comments field, this will work for you, too!
