[mikeSiLVO]

How? They're both numbers. Whether you're rating a song, a video, an artist, an album, a movie, it is just a numeric indicator of your own assessment/estimate of how much you like something. How is a numeric rating for something music-related "fundamentally different" than a numeric rating for something video-related?

Exactly the sort of thing I use them for myself. Not sure what you think I'm asking for here. I just don't want the ratings images to show if I haven't rated something, as all those rows of stars looks "busy." And somebody else must think so, too, as they added the setting for that purpose. The only reason I brought it up is because the setting only works for video views and not music (the third setting I've found like that). I'm not asking for some special function of ratings, just for the setting to work as advertised.

Huh? I have absolutely NO IDEA what you're talking about here. I never said I wanted to "inform" anybody about the ratings or make any change in the way ratings works. I just want to rate my music for the exact purposes you stated, and not have the ratings (stars) display if I haven't rated something, as the setting already in place is supposed to do. You seem to be arguing against a point I never made. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my original question, but I haven't a clue what you're on about here.

You brought up how "some view settings that work for video but not music" with a little rant about it being a "little inconsistent and misleading," so that is what I thought we were talking about. The Hide ratings setting hides the ratings except when sorted by rating.

It does not just hide empty ratings. I said in my first reply to you that I could do exactly what you say that you want but you then asked me if I was "referring to something else?" so I then explained why I think they are different.

So what is your original question?