[SlimDevices: Plugins] itunes half-stars

2011-04-20 Thread ajmitchell 

Hi

Is anyone having problems getting itunes to work with half stars using
James Craig excellent itunes updater. I am going to try for a complete
install today, but so far I cannot get half stars working

Thanks

alex


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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] itunes half-stars

2011-04-20 Thread ajmitchell 

ok I have reinstalled everything including the latest itunes and latest
SC and latest itunesupdater. 

When I select half stars, they ARE shown on the player and the duet
remote. But they do not appear in itunes itself. Only the nearest whole
star is reported. Under itunesupdater the option for half stars is ON.

Please help if you can

thanks

alex


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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] itunes half-stars

2011-04-20 Thread ajmitchell 

Well I found the solution after googling. Apparently v10 of itunes has a
nasty habit of defaulting back to full stars. 

In order to restore half stars and functionality of itunesupdater you
need to do the following modification to the iTunesPrefs.xml file (I
recommend you make a back up of this first):


1. Make sure you are closed out of the iTunes application.

2. Navigate to your iTunesPrefs.xml file. ItÂ’s normally located in one
of the locations below.

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple
Computer\iTunes in Windows XP

or

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes in Vista and
Windows 7.

3. Open the file using a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad.

4. Scroll down to where is says:

keyUser Preferences/key
dict

5. Immediately below that line, type the following:

keyallow-half-stars/key
data
dHJ1ZQ==
/data

6. Close and save the iTunesPrefs.xml file.

Now, the next time you open iTunes, you should be able to give songs a
rating using half-stars. The new half-star rating system is even
compatible with any iPod devices you sync up with.


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