As you do have option of rating songs already via love/favorite implementation, some of us like to rate songs and albums 0/5 stars as media servers like subsonic/navidrome allow for it. I would like to request for the ability to do this in Symfonium and have it sync with the star ratings from songs and albums on media servers, for instance navidrome.
I thought about this as well. I use 5 stars ratings written in tags to make it compatible with PC Foobar2000. It would be nice to have an option to read/write tags to local library so 5 stars ratings would be usable.
There won’t be an option to edit local music tags. I rely on the provider to do things, tags editing on Android is more and more complex with Google restrictions on file access.
That’s a feature I’d really like to have, not to edit tags of course, but to be able to star rate from 0 to 5. Like said in the first post, Navidrome (subsonic) or Ultrasonic do have this feature, and it’s very useful to display Most rated albums or tracks, or even to create (dynamic) playlists based on rating.
You can set star Ratings in Dsub, but it’s hidden by the UI. Tap the playlist icon in the lower right of the screen, then tap the icon all the way to the right of the song. Sometimes it looks like a thumbtack (when song is cached) and sometimes it looks like ... (but tuned vertically). Then choose “set rating” from the popup menu.
But the reason I found this post is that I just installed Symphonium to test it out. It looks great! Is there a way to set Navidrome star ratings from the Symphonium app?
I notice that Symfonium already allows us to use the album rating when generating smart playlists, so it’s really a pity that we cannot rate the albums from within the app. Some use cases I have:
Keep track of albums that haven’t been rated yet (Symfonium already allows me to generate a smart playlist of unrated albums)
Create smart playlists of albums I enjoy in different genres, time periods, etc.
“Reject” albums I don’t enjoy. I run a script every now and then that removes 1 star albums on my server.
As it is, I spend my time listening in Symfonium and then have to find the album in DSub to rate it.
Found the dedicated album specific smart playlist and working fine.
95% of my critical listening is album listening. Symfonium covers my needs almost 100% except for changing album rating. I now listened through Symfonium but then after listening to the album I have to open Plexamp to change/set (plex) album rating which is a shame. I get this is a low priority but already few times requested feature so not sure if creating a dedicated feature request makes sense. If now feels like unfinished implementation with track ratings added.
Additional inconvenience because WiiM hardware seems to react a bit strange to the change of app context… Need to test and understand still a bit better what is actually going on when switching apps…
The other bit where Plexamp has the upper hand is not relevant to album listening (should be gapless but true to the album tracks) but when playing playlists for background music. Plexamp sweet fades are the best I have seen from any app so far.
