# Adding ratings via POPM
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-ratings-via-popm/3434
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 8, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-ratings-via-popm/3434 "2006-06-08T23:16:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@olemu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olemu)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-ratings-via-popm/3434/1 "2006-06-08T23:16:52Z")
Hello, I see that V2.36a now has;
"NEW: asterisks entered at POPULARIMETER are translated to corresponding numeric value."
I know this sounds obvious, but can someone talk/walk me through this please. I can open the POPM field and add asterisks (say \*\*\*\*), but they stay this way (is this just MP3 tag's way of showing it?). Also when I read them in any of my players the rating is not shown. I realise this may be because the player does not read the info from the POPM tag, but I want to make sure the asterisks ARE being converted correctly.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to type in more than just \*\*\*_?
I know that the POPM tag normally has 3 parts;
X|Y|Z where X is an address (email of), Y is a number 0-255 (_ rating), and Z is play count.
TIA 
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-ratings-via-popm/3434/2 "2006-06-08T23:30:36Z")
Make sure that the field you use in the Mp3tag GUI is named POPULARIMETER
POPM is just the frame name inside the file
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-ratings-via-popm/3434/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:47Z")