# The iTunes Album Rating

The iTunes column may display ☆ for to show that the associated track has an explicit Album Rating set in iTunes.

When in Grid mode, iTunes allows you to set an Album Rating. When you manually set an Album Rating, all tracks which do not have an explicit rating will be displayed with an equivalent number of ☆'s for its rating value. Whenever you set a track's rating to no stars and export it to iTunes the operation will effectively fail as iTunes will display its default value for the album. You will notice that Yate still displays ratings differ even though you have just exported the new rating. In order to solve this problem you have to reset the Album Rating to no stars.

Via the Export to iTunes action function, you can force a reset of the iTunes Album state. You can also do the same via the Preferences-General Clear iTunes Album Rating ☆ whenever exporting linked data option and from within the Compare iTunes Values panel.