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Music Manager that can properly see ID3 ratings tags and synchronize with Android

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 3430 / 2 Years ago, thu, april 14, 2022, 12:55:19

From my Windows music manager programs (either MediaMonkey or Windows Media Player) I could set song ratings in a way that the ratings set from either program could be also read from the other one. Additionally, song ratings were visible and updated in my iPod Touch when I synch'ed my music (either manually or using iTunes). To sum up, it seems that MediaMonkey, WMP, and the iPod device use standard mp3 metadata tag for ratings.

Now, using Ubuntu 12.04, and now with an Android device:

Rhythmbox can't see the song rates, despite those ratings can be
seen by MediaMonkey and MS Music Player when I boot with Win7. Is
this an issue I can fix with some setting? Is there any program I
can use to accomplish this?

What do you recommend to sync my music
with Android (4.0, Galaxy s2), also keeping the song ratings
information updated between Android and my PC?

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answered 2 Years ago igeonlothe · Accepted Answer

OK, this is how I decided to solve this:

Desktop side: use MediaMonkey in Win and gMusicBrowser in Linux. I really enjoy the latter because you can customize how the information is displayed in several ways. It is not fancy (no super-UI, controls, etc.), but I care more about the features, not the details in the UI. You can also set smart lists based on almost any criteria. Really nice product.

Android: I have bought Poweramp, the highest rated player in the store. Another very solid product, extremely cheap considering the features you get. It does not read ratings from tags, BUT I have exchanged emails with its author and this feature is scheduled for the next release (no ETA, though..). The prayer is so good that I have bought now (and I will patiently wait for the upcoming release).

Synch: solved mounting the SD card and running rsync (one script for Desktop -> Android, another for Android -> Desktop). I need manually run it depending on where I did my latest change, but I can live with that.

Thanks,