Rate songs in Music.app via Hotkey with Song Rating
Song Rating now supports rating with a specific amount of stars directly.
My new laptop came with macOS Catalina pre-installed. As described in my post about managing music with iTunes, I rely on rating the currently playing song with a specific number of stars via hotkey. Since the little app I used for that wasn’t updated in a long time and is incompatible with Music.app (which replaces iTunes in Catalina), I searched for an alternative.
Song Rating was the closest I could find, but it lacked hotkeys for specific star ratings. Because it’s open source, I was able to add the feature myself. I fired up Xcode, implemented the feature, and opened a pull request to have it included in the next release.
The maintainer, @MainasuK, merged the pull request and already released version 1.2.5 this morning. Hooray!
In case you need such a rating utility which works with macOS Catalina (Big Sur is apparently supported, too), I recommend Song Rating.
