Apple Music - Album Rating Grey Star Issue *2025*

Hi,

~ is your home folder, e.g. /Users/<User>. Try /Users/<User>/Library/Music/Scripts. You have to make both Music & Scripts as they likely don't already exist. Library is a hidden folder you can reveal with Shift+Cmd+. (period).

tt2

Hi jazy,

When using the Albums view if you select an album you should see the current rating in the third line of text below the album title and artist name, and to the right of any genre, year, or other miscellaneous information. Clicking to the left of leftmost star should set the album rating to zero. Alternatively I've edited the SetAlbumAutoRating script from the Handling grey stars in Music on Mac - Apple Community user tip to make a SetAlbumZeroRating script which you can run against a batch of your problem tracks.

-- Set Album Zero Rating - V1.0 - © Steve MacGuire - 2025-03-18

tell application "Music"

if selection is not {} then

set mySelection to selection

repeat with aTrack in mySelection

if album rating of aTrack is not 0 then set album rating of aTrack to 0

end repeat

end if

end tell

And as Zurarczurx has illustrated, the Songs view with Show View Options > Show Artwork and Always Show, and a wide enough lefthand columm also shows an editable album rating section.

tt2

In any playlist, in songs view (top menu/view/view as songs) with artwork always displayed (cmd-J) you don't see this sort of view?

Last week I could reset the album rating by selecting one track and then 'Show album in library'. Near the top of the resulting pane would be the incorrect star rating, which i could fix by selecting the right-most star and dragging to the left.

Now the stars for the whole album are not visible on the heading of that pane.

I can still see my scripts in the Music app (They are from DougScripts.com and stored in ~/Library/Music/Scripts) and there is one called Album Rating Reset. I'll let you know if it still works next time I need to use it.

Meanwhile, today I reset an incorrect album rating by selecting all the tracks in an album and then renaming the album. Then, of course, renaming it again to the correct title.

To remove blue album ratings try

Songs view, show artwork, always visible (use cmd-j for these options) and you should see the album rating next to the artwork. Click to the left of the first star. If you're not seeing this then I'm stuck.

Do you have Music > Settings > Show: > Star Ratings ticked? If not tick it now to show the ratings. If you don't get that option at all then the script above should still work for you. I think the option may be missing if you're not an Apple Music subscriber, which is an odd decision or bug.

The lone star might be the Favourite or Love flag.

tt2

I'm on 1.5.2.56 but only on MacOS 15.3.1 and given the things I've seen on these boards I don't think I'll be updating for a while. Apart from the usual re-start in Safe Mode I can't think of anything to offer.

I tried setting my screen mode to dark to see if that was part of the issue, but no.

I'd try Safe Mode.

Apologies - I'm not paying close enough attention and didn't notice Apple Music as opposed to Mac Music. I don't use Apple Music so can't help. Sorry.