Whats the best method/software for storing/viewing ratings in ID3 tags for mp3s?
Thanks meehawl, Media Center is pretty close to what I’m looking for at least for getting a “raw” view of the ID3v2 tags. Its File Type Info window shows each of the fields in the tag, including the POPM field for ratings. However for some reason it’s not able to read what is in that field, and it seems that it stores its own ratings in a comment (COMM) field instead. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way that I could bring my ratings in the POPM field of the tag into the format it expects, short of writing a script. As I was doing some more searching around myself, I found MediaMonkey, which is also close to what I want, but not exactly. At least it manages to automatically pull in the ratings that were saved to the ID3v2 tags by Windows Media Player though. It’s just frustrating that there doesn’t seem to be any application out there that uses the POPM field of the ID3v2 tag as it was intended. It seems they either store ratings as co