How to star-rate “Apple Music” files in iTunes on OS X

Question

I like rating music as I'm listening to it so I can find my favorite stuff easily later. But I'm now an Apple Music subscriber and listening to a LOT of new music that the service has found for me. Unfortunately those streamed songs, don't appear to allow star ratings! They only allow a "heart" rating.

But here's the weird part. I discovered that you CAN see the star ratings if you right-click an Apple Music song and Get Info on it. BUT, you cannot actually edit the rating, it's disabled.

But here's the weirder part. If you select MULTIPLE files at once (at least two), then you CAN edit the star ratings!

So, is this a bug? An intended feature? Is there some other way to actually star-rate a single Apple Music streamed song?

Answer 1

I've had several people ask for help with Apple Music and this has helped them - hopefully it's what you're looking for.

Stars are tracked in your music library - so if you are playing songs from the cloud - it's a bug if you can input stars for tracks that are not part of your actual library.

One you add a song/album to your library - the stars should be there for you to rate things.

Hearts are tracked in the cloud - so you should always be able to use that control whether you are streaming a radio song that's not even in Apple Music for download, streaming Apple Music or playing a song that's in your library due to purchase, rip, or music addition.

Answer 2

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it seems once you've downloaded the song you can give it a star rating