# Rating WMP not autopopulating **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rating-wmp-not-autopopulating/70864 **Category:** Support **Created:** [March 12, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rating-wmp-not-autopopulating/70864 "2026-03-12T16:20:07Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover) #### Post date: [March 13, 2026, 7:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rating-wmp-not-autopopulating/70864/3 "2026-03-13T07:43:16Z")
> [@stevegershwin](#): > > So I tried moving over to Rating WMP. That works, it’s easy to type (just a digit), and takes up very little space. But…it doesn’t autopopulate. You have to select every entry in the library, no bulk selecting, to get the rating to show. So sorting by rating isn’t a choice unless you want to hold down that down key for a while. I'm not entirely sure I understand it. If I add a field in the Tag Panel with the content `POPULARIMETER` I can fill the rating for all selected (mp3) tracks at once. The number of stars is visible in the Windows File Explorer: ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/7/f/7fc62f27804f062a5673c765fbf65dab2965ad01.png) Displaying the star rating also works in columns (yellow in Windows File Explorer and black stars in Mp3tag) and looks like this: ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/e/c/ec201a6158c929064fc216dbeeffe9198daf31c1.png) You can sort by the number of stars in this column in ascending or descending sort order. Here you can find the [definition for the black stars Rating](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/set-rating-for-import-in-virtualdj/60352/12) in a Mp3tag column. Here you can find the definition for the [Custom list values](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/set-rating-for-import-in-virtualdj/60352/14) for the Tag Panel. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rating-wmp-not-autopopulating/70864)._