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Stars

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Quickly rate your iTunes songs

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Stars offers a distraction-free way to quickly rate songs with a clean design approach.

Thoroughly rebuilt for OS X Yosemite, Stars includes a handy, minimalist iTunes controller that shows the album cover of the song that is currently playing.

Check it out (in action) in the movie clip!

Download on the Mac App Store

The distraction-free way to rate your iTunes library

★★★★★

Half-star ratings - Stars now behaves more like iTunes with respect to half-star ratings. Click between stars to award a half-star rating.
Stars can alert you with a notification if your song needs to be rated.
Next and previous tracks. Option-click to forward or rewind by 10 seconds (hold the button to fast-forward or rewind). Or drag the scrubber to any point in your song.
A double-click on the album cover reveals the song in iTunes.
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Download on the Mac App Store

Detailed Release Notes

Version: 5.0.2, May 19, 2015

  • Fixes a rare bug that made Stars hide the star ratings in the menu bar when iTunes is playing a folder of smart playlists with a rather large number of songs

Version: 5.0, October 17, 2014

  • Renamed to "Stars" and now a separate product from original "I Love Stars"
  • Requires OS X Yosemite
  • New controller window that now includes a scrubber
  • Support Yosemite "dark menu" mode
  • New half-star look to match that of iTunes 12
  • Use notification center for rating notifications instead of alert animations or sounds
  • Enabling half-star ratings in Preferences window automatically enables half-star ratings in iTunes
  • Similarly, enabling half-star ratings in iTunes automatically enables it in Stars when you launch Stars
  • Automatically start at login feature is back
  • Fixed display problems that happened in the menu bar of secondary monitors