Ogg-vorbis files not showing Ratings

Issue description:

When playing .ogg files the user ratings “stars” do not show up; also, when applying to them filtering through smart playlist rules, both user ratings and ratings are ignored as if they were all “zero stars” / rating=0. The same .ogg files do show the right Ratings when browsed through desktop apps, such as JRiver Media Center.

Logs:

Upload description: debug from MarkA

Additional information:

 
All ogg were converted from FLAC originals (out of the CDs I own) with JRiver Media Center, I’ve also tried to use XLD to convert them to ogg and test if Ratings were shown in the app, but no changes. Seems like it won’t matter what app I use to convert. The same files show ratings in JRiver and other desktop apps, regularly.
 

Reproduction steps:

 
I’ve just started to play the ogg file that I’ve shared with you.
 

Media provider:

Local device

Screenshots:

 

    

Rating in XIPH tags is not well defined, the most common standard is a 0 to 100 range and that’s what Symfonium supports.

In the file the value is 3 so maps to 0. Some tools might round and map to 1.

That explains the issue. Would you have any FLAC-to-OGG converter to suggest, that sticks to the 1-100 range? The one I’m using, XLD, was last updated in May 2024 and I believe it uses the latest 1.3.4/1.3.7 (ogg and vorbis) libraries. I’ve just tried fre:ac, but it uses the same 1-5 range as JRiver Media Center and XLD. Any suggestion, most welcome - thank you!

Nope but you can probably use tools like mp3tag to script the update of the ratings to the proper values.

ok I’ll keep looking for a solution.

Confirmed @Tolriq : your suggested approach does work well. mp3Tag actions built like "Replace “RATING”: 1 → “20” " etc. 40, 60, 80, 100 for 2,3,4,5, does the job.

Entering the solution, just in case it’d help anyone else.