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Hi,

what is name of the metadata field in mp3 file, that is displayed in "Rating" in VLC playlist?

How I can change "Rating" field content in VLC media player??

Thank you
Natalya

Do you have such an mp3 that shows something in the rating field in VLC playlist?

No, I only have files that show something in the rating field in WMP playlist. WMP field has name "Rating WMP", so I think it must be different field name.

I would like to know please, what is name of VLC field?

A simple VLC Extension Lua script can set a custom rating value for a playing media, but it is useless as VLC cannot store/save it anywhere for later usage. VLC could set the rating natively in playlist GUI and save&use it within playlist file, especially the Media Library (ml.xspf). I do not like the idea of storing a rating value directly in a media file, like ID3v2 POPM in mp3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3#ID3v2 ... _tag_issue
You could try VLC 4 nightly build whether it is better there http://nightlies.videolan.org/
There are 2 tickets regarding "rating" in VLC bug/feature requests tracker https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/query?sum ... =component

I do not like the idea of storing a rating value directly in a media file, like ID3v2 POPM in mp3

Why not? "Further, Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player up to and including Windows 7 and WMP 12 (possibly beyond)[clarification needed] contain a bug" <- WMP is very buggy program. I think is not dangerous to put rating in media file, but is dangerous to use WMP

If I put rating 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 in field "Rating WMP" then Windows Explorer of Windows 10 displays 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. So I think it works. But WMP often not works, so I do not want to use WMP.

A simple VLC Extension Lua script can set a custom rating value for a playing media, but it is useless as VLC cannot store/save it anywhere for later usage. VLC could set the rating natively in playlist GUI and save&use it within playlist file, especially the Media Library (ml.xspf).

It is problem if VLC stores rating in playlist file, because one song can be in more than one playlist.

For example if I put my song in 10 playlists then if I change rating for this song then I must change 10 playlists -> not so good. When I copy song to new computer or operating system then I must put rating in new playlists -> not good. Or I play song on new computer without playlists, then I not have rating -> not so good.

So I think "Rating" must be property of song file, not of song in playlist file.

But there is other problem with VLC display which need be solved first:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 98#p511298

There are 2 tickets regarding "rating" in VLC bug/feature requests tracker

"Now that ratings are a sortable column, allow the user to give songs in the playlist ratings via that column." "Agreed."
9 Years ago

Sorry if i did not understood your previous discussion completly. Therefor i will ask again to have a clear understanding.

VLC in latest release 3.0.11 have a column called "rating" in the playlist viewer

As far as i understood:

• There is no possibily to edit in VLC playlist the meta data to show a rating in the playlist, correct?
• VLC did not show any value from the POPM-Frame from the IDv3-ratig tag?

As a conclusion:

• The rating column in the VLC playlist is useless right now?

Just want to ask, if anyone has a comment on my questions above.
Thx in advance.

If a media file (like ogg) contains "rating" tag, then VLC can display its value in the playlist without possibility to edit it.