Transform rating stars into values and vice versa

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hi @ohrenkino
I guess you did the point , i'm asking if it's really worth it , seeing the a music collection could be pretty huge.

But in any case - if you have 4,000 files in the best category ... does this really help?
Or would a playlist for a dedicted purpose be of a much higher value?

I would like to uniform the rating tags , since many audio applications do use different rating values ,like foobar2000 (the auto playlist "smart playlist" are not so easy to create i'm talking about the rules ,there is not a gui) , musicbee , aimp , media monkey (V4 is even better)
I use musicbee for smart playlist and foobar2000 for others , both great audio player
May I ask you what software do you use?

Or in short: I would create playlists.
But, of course, this is a very individual decision.

well to create a playlist or even a smart playlist , would be a good idea ,but i don't think I could export a musicbee smartplayst to foobar
do you use mp3tag to uniform some tags with mp3tag?

thanks

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I use mainly foobar as player.
You are right that every player has its own ways to maintain automatic playlists.

In Foobar you simply create a filter (which has a very similar syntax as the MP3tag filter has - and vice versa) and then, depending on where you applied the filter, there is a function to create an automatic playlist from the result.
An example for a filter could be:
%album% HAS Abba AND %rating% IS 3

In general: I do not use any other program to modify tags than MP3tag.
I use Foobar as player for the whole collection as this program can deal with more than just 20,000 files as WMP does.

Non-automatic, hard-coded playlists should be exportable as m3u or m3u8 format by the respective player ... and if that does not work: you can drag&drop any collection of files from foobar into MP3tag and create the playlist there.

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@ohrenkino @LyricsLover
Hi
I just wanted to test the action with mp3 for other forum users and it doesn't work
it does change from
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and the action is

[#0]
T=5
1=$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),254,10,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),241,9,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),195,8,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),185,7,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),127,6,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),117,5,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),63,4,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),53,3,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),12,1,$ifgreater($regexp(%popularimeter%,.*\\|(\\d+)\\|.*,$1),0,2,0))))))))))
F=POPULARIMETER
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What did you expect it should do?
According to the code, any value greater than 254 is replaced with 10 - and to me 255 is greater than 254 and the result is "10".

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Hi @ohrenkino
just populate the %rating% or %popularimeter% from 5 to 0 , like the @LyricsLover screenshots
thanks

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Just to get this right: the valid format for POPULARIMETER is:
Syntax: Email|Rating|Playcounter
As shown in the documentation:

Any player that uses the field POPULARIMETER has to interpret that data.
Unfortunately, every player seems to do its own thing: Musicbee shows a "10" and Foobar a "5" for the value 255 in the raw data.
Also, Foobar labels the POPM field (which MP3tag calls POPULARIMETER) as . I don't know what Musicbee calls it.
So, if you replace a 255 with a 10 in MP3tag, you actually set a new value.
If you also set MP3tag to take this new value to be interpreted for rating so that it looks like 5 stars or a 10, then, when writing the tag data, MP3tag will transform that string of stars or number to a value that complies with the format for the POPM field.
This is all rather complicated.
And that is why I recommend to treat the rating only with the raw values and not the interpreted ones.
if you also follow that line, then do not use any $ifgreater() but only the pure field name.

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POPM (in the song itself with the Addition MusicBee).
Foobar is adding Windows Media Player 9 Series to POPM in the song itself.

To illustrate

@rama could read this topic with screenshots: