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I'm terrible at AppleScript, and I'm trying to take any song that has a rating on it and write it to the comment in a unique and searchable way so that I don't have to rely on the rating field in the library. Once written to the comments, if the library needs to be rebuilt, I'd also like to run the script and restore the ratings of all my songs. So granted it would be two scripts, but I haven't a clue how to write them.<br />
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Once I have that working, I plan on using this technique on fields that don't even exist in MP3s in order to keep particular information about the media, so I'm looking for a solution that will work when there's other data the comment field.<br />
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If it matters, I'm on a Mac, running Leopard and iTunes 8.<br />
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This is the first question I've posed to the group, please excuse any inadvertent social mistakes.
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I'm terrible at AppleScript, and I'm trying to take any song that has a rating on it and write it to the comment in a unique and searchable way so that I don't have to rely on the rating field in the library. Once written to the comments, if the library needs to be rebuilt, I'd also like to run the script and restore the ratings of all my songs. So granted it would be two scripts, but I haven't a clue how to write them.

Once I have that working, I plan on using this technique on fields that don't even exist in MP3s in order to keep particular information about the media, so I'm looking for a solution that will work when there's other data the comment field.

If it matters, I'm on a Mac, running Leopard and iTunes 8.

This is the first question I've posed to the group, please excuse any inadvertent social mistakes.

How can I save iTunes song ratings to the comments field and retrieve them to restore the rating value?

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