Just noticed that this seems to be related to the issue I’ve reported recently.
This “feature” makes no sense for song ratings. There are so many reasons why people like to rate the “same song” differently:
- Bitrate/sound quality of the underlying file. Better quality - higher rating. Or worse sound quality / older recording with higher rating, nostalgically.
- Remastered, live, accoustic, instrumental, remix song versions etc. are not the same songs. But who knows whether Plex treats them as the same or not
- Mark duplicated songs implicitly through rating (e.g. 1 star), to have songs in (smart) playlists based on ratings only once in the playlist. I apply this strategy for years to my music library.
- The matching is opaque. Most of the same songs aren’t recognized. The ones that are matched, cannot be listed. And it seems like it sometimes matches totally different tracks. At least when I listen to my smart playlist of unrated songs, eventually there’ll be songs that already have a rating. Even though I am very sure that song or similar songs didn’t come up earlies. AND looking through my library I’ve noticed a lot of songs I really like having such a bad rating I cannot believe I should have applied them. Probably I’ve listened to the good recording first and then to the bad, gave them a bad rating and thanks to this very nice feature, the good song was rated bad, too. Which results into that I’ll never listening to this song again, accidentally.
I’ve already spent about 100 hours to rate my songs. Basically, I could start again now, after this issue has been fixed. To correct these rating errors.
The funny thing about this is I’ve moved to Plex after making my own experiences with QNAP Music. I’ve rated my songs for about another 100 hours. And one day, after an update, the NAS just thrown away each rating, without any built in backup. And now Plex puts the spoke into my wheel. Luckily, I’ve also save song ratings directly into the files with the good old Windows Media Player…
