How To Enable Half Star Ratings in iTunes

April 23, 2009 by Dave Senior  
Filed under How-To

If you want to get those fancy half star ratings in Itunes you can follow these instructions to get them on either Windows or Mac.

Windows

  1. Close Itunes
  2. Find Itunesprefs.xml and open it using Notepad
  3. Find <Key>User Preferences</key><dict>
  4. Under that line add: <key>allow-half-stars</key>
  5. Under that line add: <data>dHJ1ZQ</data>
  6. Save the file and Open Itunes

Mac

  1. Open up Terminal (in Application/Utilities)
  2. Make sure iTunes is closed
  3. Type the following line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars-bool TRUE
  4. Hit enter
  5. Close the terminal and fire up iTunes