@promisedplanet wrote:
@johnnyz86 wrote:
If you’ve read the thread, you’d realize I don’t really mean syncing and storing song ratings - only the ability to just view them outside of the clip. It is a bug because it is implemented, just not working. I don’t understand why they even put the ability to assign songs a rating in the clip if there was not a purpose to it other than looking at what you just assigned ratings to.
In order to view the ratings outside of the Clip, don’t they need to be copied via MTP from the Clip to the host computer?
No, they can just be viewed in from WMP or WinAmp or even in MSC mode if they un-hid the files - the way it rates the files is not by editing the audio file, but by editing a database file. If they just un-hid all of the files, I would be happy, because I am sure I could decode the database file.
Generally when this is done, changed ratings can move in either direction, hence the word “sync”.
A feature I don’t care about, but it does work - just the ratings are off.
So it seems that the Clip stores the ratings in its own internal database
Correct, but I don’t care about copying
but hasn’t implemented the portion of the MTP protocol that syncs (“copies”, if you prefer) the ratings to the PC.
Actually, it is implemented, you can view them in WMP, and also copy the songs to the PC, and the song ratings are there - they are just off by some amount. I’m not requesting to copy the ratings to the PC. Sansa claims to support WMP 10 and 11, which it does, except for how it tags ratings. It does, just one value somewhere has a -1 or something.
I’m still not sure I consider this to be a bug, but, whatever.
‘Whatever’ indeed
I’d like to have it too, FWIW.
Yay, finally someone supports this
The purpose of being able to rate songs on the Clip appears to be only to dictate which songs go into the “Top Rated” list.
A worthless feature if one has to tag it every time it is transfered to the clip. Actually, maybe getting PC ratings to the clip works, that would be even more absurd if it could read ratings just fine, just not write them fine. If that isn’t a bug, I don’t know what is.
Message Edited by PromisedPlanet on 07-28-2009 08:53 AM
