Rate media content

osaddict

Right, I'm hoping you guys can help - this is driving me up the wall now...

I have a large volume of media - think 600-800gb or there abouts, perhaps more. This is a mixture of predominantly audio and video - and these are the only two types of media I want to rate.

The purpose is so that I can sort my media by rating, and from this put the highest rated media on portable devices, and then archive off the lowest rated media to make space for new media.

There's a 'handy' ratings column in explorer (Im on vista) which would be ideal - however, getting ratings to appear in this column seems very difficult!!

At present the only way I can see of doing this is within windows media player - not a huge supprise I guess, but then, it seems very clumsy and ackward- putting files in to the library etc, also I tried to do it with a wmv file - and it refused to let me rate it?! - this was the same for 10 wmv files I tried - its own native format!!!

I would have thought media content managment and rating etc would have been simple and possible through a number of applications and interfaces... alas no.....

Can anyone help - explain where I am going wrong with the explorer rating field, or reccomend an alternative bit of software or add-in which might assist me!

Thanks!

RichD

If you right click on the media in explorer and select properties, then click on the detail tab you can set the rating in there.

works with MP3s. so I expect it works with all other media.

osaddict

That seems to be the problem - non mp3 media types.

I've been using a combination of explorer and wmp11 to sort mp3 ratings, and thats working well.

Video is the problem - if you right click a divx file for example there's no ratings field where there is one for mp3s...

kryyst

I know itunes also has it's own rating system based on a combination of manual settings and/or how often you've played the tune. I don't know if that carries over to video though as I don't play video through itunes.