This is an extension for Rate Your Music (RYM) users who want to have their RYM ratings inside their Songbird music library.

Usage:

1. Open Ratebird options menu and enter your RYM username.
2. Log into RYM using Songbird.
3. Go to your library and select all tracks you wish to rate.
4. Right-click on these tracks and select 'Get ratings for these items from RYM'.
5. Rejoice in the cornucopia of ratings which ensues.

Limitations:

• No progress reports or configurable settings (aside from RYM account used) as yet.
• Multiple matches are not currently addressed; they shouldn't occur much in regular use if tags are reasonably correct, but one possible case is that of a band who has released a number of split EPs with other bands, as these releases are often titled 'Split'. Ratebird currently only returns the first match it finds. I will address this in a future release.
• Ratings are only saved in the SB database, not in individual file metadata. This will be addressed in a future release.
• RYM doesn't have an API so as far as I can see, rating in SB and uploading the ratings to RYM will be impossible for the foreseeable future.

Tagging:

Your media files are matched with a RYM rating through their Artist and Album tags. It is case-insensitive and some stripping/replacing of common HTML characters, leading/trailing spaces and disc identifiers (e.g. AlbumName [CD1]) is performed. If something doesn't match:

• Check your tags are the same as, or as close as possible to, those featured on the relevant release page(s) of the RYM site.
• If you think your tags are correct but RYM has got it wrong, do something about it on the RYM site.
• If something should match that doesn't then please post the exact artist and album tags in the comments and I will have a look at it.