# No support for reading windows explorer ratings in m4a / mp4?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-support-for-reading-windows-explorer-ratings-in-m4a-mp4/15671
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 20, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-support-for-reading-windows-explorer-ratings-in-m4a-mp4/15671 "2014-04-20T20:42:08Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-support-for-reading-windows-explorer-ratings-in-m4a-mp4/15671/17 "2018-11-17T17:16:22Z")

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> [@MrSinatra](#):
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> I'll take a stab at it.
> 
> I have 85k files or so. I rate songs bc it can be helpful to find what I want to play, esp within given genre[s].
> 
> I have a background in radio so I settled on this:
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> 1 star = crap, shit, I hate it.  
> 2 stars = neutral, not worth playing.  
> 3 stars = i kinda like it, want to hear it 25% of the time.  
> 4 stars = I like it, want to hear it 33% of the time.  
> 5 stars = I love it, want to hear it 42% of the time.
> 
> Think of the percents as representative of a given hour.  
> [...]

So assuming you are not a [radio] DJ that has to play also such `crap, shit` for the masses / clients , why would you want to indulge yourself with it?

After year of hoarding music, when trying to apply genres\* to it, I gradually came to a conclusion, that I have so much `crap, shit`, that it holds me back from listening to the Really Good Stuff [which I also have a lot]  
  
  
[\* What I really do is adding tags / markers and some quasi ratings, and not some `rock` or `undeground hip-hop` labels]

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