AF1 wrote: 
> LMS only stores ratings for individual tracks. There's no column in the
> albums table or any other for album ratings. 
> So any *displayed* album rating would have to be calculated (i.e.
> average track rating of all album tracks). Most people have only very
> few rated tracks in an album, and so you get 'meaningful' (average)
> album ratings like 0.23 or 0.35. I'm not sure how useful this would be.
> *Setting* ratings for an -entire- album basically tells LMS/RL to set
> the rating of *all* album tracks to some value - because there is no
> album rating other than the calculated one. That would mean: all albums
> tracks rated equally and even the best albums have weak tracks...
> So is album ratings something you really really want and use then? If
> so, maybe a future update will bring an option to display calculated
> album ratings and batch rate all album tracks. Though I'm still not
> convinced.

Thanks for the reply and explanation.  Much appreciated!  I can see the
logic behind it not being included.

I guess the sensible thing would be to ‘favourite’ albums and ‘rate’ my
individual tracks within that album as a workaround.  I’m pretty new to
all this and it’s my first real attempt at upkeep of a growing digital
collection.  I am blown away by the quality of the plug ins for all
this, I downloaded ratings last night and my instinct was to rate the
album I just listened to (for the first time) so I thought I’d ask the
question.

Cheers


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