# The Ratings Edit Panel

The Ratings edit panel is used to display and edit ratings for the current file selection. The rating displayed on the Info panel is the default rating. The default rating is the first rating in an audio file.

The table displays the ratings found in the currently selected files. Note that an empty placeholder may be displayed to represent the default item. The empty placeholder is not written to audio files when saved.

A rating has two fields other than the actual value field. The first is the email field which is intended to be the user's email address. In practice it can be used as a short description. The email address is intended to be unique among all ratings found in a given file. The second field is a counter. The counter field is intended to be a numeric play count. Note that Yate does not use this field when exchanging play counts with iTunes. The single play count found on the Audio tab is used..

All editing and manipulation is done via the context menu and is described here.

On the Info tab you enter a rating by displaying zero to five stars. Internally the rating is stored as a value from 0 to 255. Yate supports three different interpretations of the value range. This only affects how ratings values are read and written to mp3 files, not how they are internally retained. The interpretation is set in Preferences>Audio. You may choose any of the following:

Direct (0-5)
  The value is strictly enforced as being in the range of 0-5. This is a one-to-one mapping to the number of displayed stars in the rating display.
iTunes (0-100)
  The value is strictly enforced as being in the range of 0-100. This is how iTunes represents the rating value. Yate does not support half stars. 0-19 is no stars, 20-39 is one star, 40-59 is two stars, 60-79 is three stars, 80-99 is four stars and 100 is five stars.
Full (0-255)
  The full range of the value is used in determining the rating. 0-8 is no stars, 9-49 is one star, 50-113 is two stars, 114-167 is three stars, 168-218 is four stars and 219-255 is five stars. Ratings are stored internally in this format.