Import Ratings saved in mp3 tag

[LastDitch]

First, love this application, donated long ago but first time I am posting here because I figured this should be pretty easy to code in, at least initially. I use itunes, and like many with large libraries, ratings are an effective way to manage what you listen to. Problem is, is that there is no way of importing thousands of ratings per song into the DB of subsonic.

Do you think it would be possible to have subsonic read an extra tag field from the POPM field? I use iTSFV which is such a great tool as well, and it allows you to export all your ratings from the itunes database to the mp3tag, as well as import them back in too.

I think this would be such a great feature to automate marking mp3s with their rating from the same data subsonic already reads from.

Thanks guys!

[BKKKPewsey]

I think that is a good idea but there needs to be some method of deciding which user those imported ratings are assigned to.
Don't forget the track ratings (stars) are on a per user basis.
As this probably only needs to be done once (or very occasionally) I think this would be ideal for some sort of external script/app (Hint to the modders out there )

[santacruzskim]

did a solution for this ever come about? After having to re-install subsonic and loose all my ratings it now seems silly to store it in some proprietary form when the rest of the world already successfully uses ID3 tags which live with the file. At least for me, the issue of different users having different ratings is moot. if another user wants to select favorites they can still star or make playlists.

i think an ideal compromise would be for subsonic to read the id3 tag if no rating has been assigned in subsonic by the user. the id3 tag would be a starting point and if users want to change their personal ratings it would allow for that.

[trumad]

I would also appreciate this feature. I store my ratings in the mp3 tags, since proprietary formats and databases never last for long. It would be great if Subsonic could import ratings from tags, or maybe allow sorting by any arbitrary tag field. I'm sure that would solve more problems than just this one. And probably create new ones too