cpd73 wrote: 
> But there is a rating tag that can be used for most (all?) file formats
> - and an LMS client should get its ratings from LMS.
> 
> Again, do your ratings get returned by LMS if the 'tags:R' parameter is
> used?

I suppose you mean the LMS rating tag. Yes, I know, the rating value
stored in the tracks_persistent database. But that's *LMS's own* rating
tag. The *metadata containers* of my m4a/alac, mp3, flac and APE *files*
don't share -one- common rating tag (if at all) where I could store the
rating so it could travel with the file across different OS and
applications.

And the LMS rating value exists only if you have -rated a track in LMS
or imported a rating using a plugin- like the (no longer maintained)
-CustomScan- - which required a second scan of all of your files. BTW
even CustomScan would ask you to specify the tag where you'd stored your
rating (like grouping or -comment-...). And Trackstat was - among other
things - basically a means to store your ratings (imported with
CustomScan or rated in LMS) separate from the LMS database so it could
survive a clean wipe and be rebuilt afterwards. And I've always done a
clean wipe before rescanning for the last 10(?) years.

So if you use your tracks across different OS with different
applications - which like LMS all have their own metadata databases and
ways of dealing with ratings - it's proven to be a lot easier to use
some tag like comment to store the rating and display it everywhere.
That's why I don't use Erland's deprecated plugins anymore and that's
why my tracks_persistent database has no entries. 

All I want to do is display that rating. I've never supposed this would
be part of the standard Material release. That's why I forked your repo.
I just need some help with the missing JavaScript link between the
returned comment tag value and the display of the rating (as explained
in #5712).
I hope I could explain why and how I do it that way.


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