Sebastian Succeeds with I Love Stars
Disney always tells you to “Wish upon a star” to make your dreams come true. While I Love Stars from The Potion Factory won’t make dreams come true, It definitely solved a problem that I had.
I Love Stars is a Menubar app that displays clearly your rating of the current iTunes song. By simply clicking on a star you can change the rating of a song. If you hate to have unrated songs in your library (like yours truly) you can have it flash and play a sound when an unrated song is played.
A great feature of I Love Stars is the fact that it is so discrete. When you aren’t playing a song it hides and you can also make it disappear when unrateable things (podcasts, streams etc.) are playing. To operate it you can either click on the stars or use keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-Cmd-star rating).
I Love Stars is a great little app that does one thing but does it well. You can get it for free today from The Potion Factory
I also use I Love Stars, and want to add an out-of-the-way but useful feature. If you click on the highest star assigned, it changes to a half star. Until recently this was supported by the iTunes database but not the UI, but in 8.0 a hack was introduced to allow iTunes to do this natively (Google it). For example, if you have a four-star song playing and click on the fourth star, the rating will become 3½ stars, like so:
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