I just replaced my defective C: drive and had some issues with ratings, etc.
getting lost. I managed to get the ratings back by reinstalling WMP11. But
in the process I noticed that some of the ratings are not actually stored in
the individual files.

I had "Maintain my star ratings as global ratings in files" checked, and
several times I've run the "Apply Media Information Changes", but some files
just don't get updated. I suspect these may be files imported/ripped back
when I had a previous WMP version. Maybe WMP11 doesn't see that information
as a "change" and therefore doesn't save it.

I tried to uncheck and recheck "Maintain..." but then I get a warning that
the file ratings will overwrite my library ratings, which I definetly don't
want to happen until the files are properly updated. So now I'm
unfortunately running with this important option unchecked.

I've seen reference in this newsgroup to some kind of plug in for applying
ratings to files, but the only thing I found on the plug in site was for WMP9
and didn't look trustworthy.

Does anyone know how I can get my library ratings and other info stored in
my files?

If you have not stored your ratings in the files, checking the box to do so
will give you the prompt that you described but it will not overwrite what is
in your library with empty ratings.

To be completely safe, use my metadata backup program first and you can
restore the ratings to the library database if they are lost:

http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2007...ta-backup.html

Dale
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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"toml" wrote:

> I just replaced my defective C: drive and had some issues with ratings, etc.
> getting lost. I managed to get the ratings back by reinstalling WMP11. But
> in the process I noticed that some of the ratings are not actually stored in
> the individual files.
>
> I had "Maintain my star ratings as global ratings in files" checked, and
> several times I've run the "Apply Media Information Changes", but some files
> just don't get updated. I suspect these may be files imported/ripped back
> when I had a previous WMP version. Maybe WMP11 doesn't see that information
> as a "change" and therefore doesn't save it.
>
> I tried to uncheck and recheck "Maintain..." but then I get a warning that
> the file ratings will overwrite my library ratings, which I definetly don't
> want to happen until the files are properly updated. So now I'm
> unfortunately running with this important option unchecked.
>
> I've seen reference in this newsgroup to some kind of plug in for applying
> ratings to files, but the only thing I found on the plug in site was for WMP9
> and didn't look trustworthy.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get my library ratings and other info stored in
> my files?