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I Love Stars is a menu item that lets you rate iTunes songs from your menubar.
What's New
Version 4.1:
- Fixed not starting as the left-most menu bar status item after a reboot
- Added preference to disable pop up iTunes controller
- Increased menu bar alert duration from 5 to 7 seconds
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
I Love Stars User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:8,038 |
| Version Downloads:32 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Music |
| License:Commercial |
| Date:14 May 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $1.99 |
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I Love Stars is a menu item that lets you rate iTunes songs from your menubar.
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Donperreault reviewed on 29 Mar 2012
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Don't encourage the developer by buying this on MAS and give Apple 30% and your personal info for free.
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Next time, review the app fairly, and take up your complaints about the MAS distribution method somewhere more appropriate.
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Giovanni-Marcucci reviewed on 17 Jun 2011
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Martin reviewed on 16 Jun 2011
It works very well, and is the first app that really brought me to apply a star rating to most of my songs. The subtle blinking and the sound are a great “reminder“ to apply your rating now.
I would have preferred an non MAS-version as I dont’t like to wait for an Apple approved version if a new or bugfix version is to be released. But I have paid for it anyway simply to support the developer.
It never crashed on my Mac and makes me a happy camper. It would be a full 5 star rating but I have to cut a half star off because of the Mac App Store only approach.
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Virgeist reviewed on 03 Mar 2011
It would have been nice to have this app for free but $1 is quite reasonable, the people would complain about the price and the app store have probably wasted about the same amount of money in terms of lost productivity simply by expressing their views on Macupdate.
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Mette reviewed on 16 Jan 2011
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consumerx reviewed on 10 Jan 2011
Firstly, I am disappointed that I discovered this application too late. And by that, of course I mean the newly initiated App Store requirement. I have no issue with paying a few bucks for the app, 'tis just that I am still running that ever so old 10.5 OS X version. However, I discovered the freeware 3.2 version still hosted on that other software website .... softronic . (At least until the dev reads this review, I suppose. ;-P )
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In short, this application does exactly as described.
I discovered accidently that holding down the command key provides 1/2 star rating. A pleasant surprise!
On a slight aside, my Mac Mini is tethered to an Apple Bluetooth Aluminum Keyboard that has the multimedia keys. If there was some way to remap the useless brightness keys (no compatibility with non-Apple monitors) to interface with I Love Stars (or iTunes) as rating keys, I would be super pleased. My searching on remapping the special multimedia keys has been unsuccessful. Any ideas people?
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It's great that you found the 10.5 compatible version. I'll leave it alone if it helps people still on 10.5.
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Ikir reviewed on 09 Jan 2011
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I want choices and I don't want Apple to be the bottleneck between me and software because in the big picture it gives them too much power. I don't care if it's easier for all involved, sometimes (often times I'd say) what looks like the easy path today turns out to be a nightmare in the long run.
I would think that developers would want to retain as much control and choice as possible too. What if one day Apple changes the rules of the game and removes this app because, for example, "it reproduces functionality already available" or "insert other subjective reason here"? Never put all your eggs in 1 basket!
I'm not willing to allow Apple to come between my computer and what I want on it and I hope all Mac developers will not allow Apple to become the sole distributor for their software because the long-term implications of them getting a monopoly on distribution are unacceptable to me. If that happens it will finally be time to learn how to use Linux.
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Wow it rates songs. Look at all the other projects like VLC, Sequel Pro, BowTie, etc. that provide massive functionality, all for nothing. Not a dime.
I'm not saying the developer didn't put it time and effort, but let's put this little program in perspective.
"The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand." — Tim Ferriss
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Morannon reviewed on 08 Jan 2011
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I'm going to restart my computer THEN move the new version to applications, but this shouldn't be required.
What did I miss/forget? 'case something like this happens again? Oh, CMD/OPT/ESC did not list I Love Stars so I couldn't force-quit. Stumped, but not done yet.
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If you want to clean everything out and start again, I Love Stars only seems to exist in the Application folder, where you installed it, and:
HD:Users:(you):Library:Caches:com.potionfactory.ILoveStars
and
HD:Users:(you):Library:Preferences:com.potionfactory.ILoveStars.plist
...of course, if you had it as a login item, delete it there.
Good luck on figuring this out. I'm curious to see if others can get it to run on Snow Leopard. It won't run on mine.
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alexbrown rated on 05 Apr 2012
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Fontgoddess rated on 15 Jun 2011
rhessel rated on 22 May 2011