Yahoo! Music Tutorials

Rating Music

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Rating a Track That's Playing

Rating music helps Yahoo! Music improve your listening experience. When you sign into the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, you’ll see music recommendations in Yahoo! Music Unlimited. These recommendations are based on your ratings.

You can easily rate music while you’re listening to it. It doesn't matter if you’re listening to a song from Yahoo! Music Unlimited or LAUNCHcast Radio, or from one of your playlists or My Music. Whenever you select a track and play it, you can rate it.

 

Here’s How

  1. Double-click a song to listen to the music.

    The song displays in the Information pane and the 4-star rating tool displays on the right-hand side.

    Use the 4-star rating tool to rate a song, artist, and album.

    You can rate the track, the artist, and the entire album.

    Tip: If you don't want to see the 4-star rating tool when you listen to music, from the View pull-down menu, uncheck the option Show Ratings.

  2. Click any star to rate the song. And if you click the ban icon (The ban icon.) you’ll never have to listen to that song again!

    Click a star or the ban icon to rate music.

    From a Playlist and My Music, you only see the 4-star rating for the individual song. Simply click a star or the ban icon to rate the music.

    Click a star or the ban icon to rate a song.

 

What’s Next

You can review all of your ratings in one place in My Music Tastes.

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Words to Know

  • 4-star rating tool: a graphical evaluation tool consisting of four stars and a ban icon, used to rate music, artists, albums, and genre.
  • LAUNCHcast Radio: a streaming music service that allows you to create your own customized station tailored to your tastes and provides an extensive collection of other music stations that offer a wide variety of genres and themes
  • My Music: your personal music collection in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, where music that you’ve imported, downloaded, or bookmarked is stored.
  • Playlist: a list of songs that you assemble and organize. Use playlists to program your listening, as well as to copy files to portable devices or to burn your own CDs.
  • Rating: information that a member provides about how much he likes a particular song, artist, or album. Yahoo! Music bases its recommendations on a member’s previous ratings.
  • Yahoo! Music Unlimited: a collection of more than two million songs, available by subscription and for purchase through the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.