# Minimum star rating for radio
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097
**Category:** Plex Labs
**Tags:** plexamp
**Created:** [December 26, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097 "2023-12-26T17:19:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@thomslattery](https://forums.plex.tv/u/thomslattery)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/1 "2023-12-26T17:19:00Z")
Is there a way to set a minimum star rating for the “radio” or “mixes for you”? These features are becoming less useful as I keep getting low rated songs in the mixes. For example, today I got a “Sofia Kourtesis Mix” suggested. I started it up, and the only track by her on it is literally the only track of hers I have rated less than 3 stars. Half of her tracks are rated 4, but the mix doesn’t include ANY of them.
I realize that I may use the star ratings differently than others, but to me it just doesn’t make sense to ever play anything less than 3 stars out of 5 in a radio or shuffle setting. Personally I’d set my minimum at 3.5 stars (or unrated), but I can understand 3.
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/2 "2023-12-26T18:19:59Z")
it biases against low rated tracks and recently played tracks, so maybe you’ve listened recently to the higher rated ones?
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### Author:  [@thomslattery](https://forums.plex.tv/u/thomslattery)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/3 "2023-12-26T20:01:35Z")
I checked the history: listened to the whole album 3 times, then 3 of the highest rated tracks once more each. So there were 6 other 3+ star songs that hadn’t been played this week.
But that would seem like a pretty strong bias even if that’s the reason. Personally, I’d rather hear the 4 star song a second time this week before dropping all the way to a 2.5 star song. Overall I’d rather have a little control over the bias - my collection is too large to play sub-3 star songs during a shuffle mode.
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### Author:  [@thomslattery](https://forums.plex.tv/u/thomslattery)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/4 "2024-02-23T13:46:56Z")
This is getting ridiculous. I’ve got over 100k songs in my library, currently there’s over 8k rated 3 or better and less than 700 rated 2 or less. And yet this was the radio selection after listening to a Beck album:
What’s the point of rating songs if plexamp is going to insert a 2 minute track of people cheering that I purposely rated 1 star to skip it? There’s no reason for half this list to be 2 star live tracks when the 4 or 5 star studio tracks haven’t even been played recently. At this point it seems completely random would work better than the Plexamp matching algorithm.
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### Author:  [@Anijake](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Anijake)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/5 "2024-02-23T17:44:15Z")
I agree, there should be a setting that we can select the highest rating that has to be met for a track to be played.
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/6 "2024-02-23T19:43:50Z")
What specific radio are you playing?
It seems weird to me that the 2-star tracks are selected, as they are biased against. The only possible reason I can think of is because all the other tracks have been played recently which results in a similar bias.
[Server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) would actually explain a bit more.
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### Author:  [@thomslattery](https://forums.plex.tv/u/thomslattery)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/7 "2024-02-23T20:16:41Z")
I was listening to an album by Beck - but I’m not sure what it continued on (artist radio or what). I’ll try to add [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) this weekend.
But I gotta be honest, there is no way that a 1 star song should ever be played (except on a playlist or the actual album).
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/8 "2024-02-23T21:40:47Z")
> [@thomslattery](#):
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> there is no way that a 1 star song should ever be played (except on a playlist or the actual album).
People use ratings differently.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/minimum-star-rating-for-radio/864097/9 "2024-05-23T21:41:45Z")
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