[scott967]

What I meant was for those of us who do want to maintain the old similarity to music players we can create separate folders for music and video. So under the skin's media folder I can have a video stars (1-10 wholes) which looks like IMDB and is the default starratings folder, but I can also have a music stars folder which has 1-5 with halves, which is what I used in my example above, calling it as you describe:

Code:

<texture>musicstars/$INFO[MusicPlayer.UserRating].png</texture>

The problem is locating all the places (or at least the relevant places) that ratings are included as controls in the hundreds of xml files in each skin. Probably need to venture into the dreaded Includes.xml - something to do on halloween.

I agree trying to use crowd source ratings at a track level may be a nightmare. Even though mp3tag has a number of different rating tags available they behave in different ways, so it's all a bit like spinning plates on sticks. Even I'm not that obsessive though, and seeing the ratings that AllMusic give things just makes me angry anyway (extra star for having a beard apparently).

For freeware tool suggest notepad++ and there is a plug-in for xml which adds some features. You can search *.xml in the 1080i or 720p folders for text string or RegEx and get all the hits in a panel. I took a quick and dirty approach that just mapped 1-10 to the existing 5 full stars, but adding half-stars would be an improvement.

scott s.
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