having just gotten winamp to fix the way they read ratings, i have yet another reason for Florian to please implement this request:
the way an app writes a rating varies, the syntax by spec is:
email addy | 0-255 rating value | playcount #
but what happens in reality is that some apps will overwrite an existing email addy (or similar text string ID) when writing the rating value, (bad behavior, i'm looking at you WMP and windows explorer) while some others DON'T, (good behavior, like winamp).
this means that you could have situations where the default email addy, like the one MM uses, is properly left in place by an app like winamp, yet has an UNEXPECTED value. for 5 stars, MM writes 252, but winamp writes 255.
its yet another reason why %popularimeter% should be left to show the raw data, if a user uses that column, irrespective of what the "app specific" rating columns do.
in order to get winamp to fix its issue with the way it READS ratings, i had to use a different program to analyze files. i could not get the raw data out of mp3tag.