Hello blindjim,
Answering blindjim: How do the ratings help me to search.
This Christmas I had the time to listen seriously to the Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ. I have five complete versions of this beautiful work. Two of these I have liked enough in the past to give them five stars. This rating means the performance and its sonics are good enough for me to devote myself for the next two hours to listening to this oratorio.
With a 5-star rating I usually add critical comments. In this case they said that the Herreweghe performance included a superb narrator (Paul Agnew) whose performance is good enough to expand your concept of reverence.
Incidently, Aurender owners, because you are listening with your iPad in your lap, you can put the .pdf notes into iBooks and read the libretto while you listen. There is a very slick system that drives the librettos and the notes into the Conductor app which will hopefully be illuminated more as this thread evolves.
The "heart" marking in iTunes is new so it is not populated for most of my tracks. I plan to use it to give me a handle that finds all the desert island recordings in my library.
Filtering: In iTunes (and presumably in Aurender) you can select, say, all of your Christmas music that has a five star rating. This is very powerful since many Christmas records and compilations have tracks that are awful, so this selection will only play that ones that made the cut.
I hope this is helpful.
John Devereux
Answering blindjim: How do the ratings help me to search.
This Christmas I had the time to listen seriously to the Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ. I have five complete versions of this beautiful work. Two of these I have liked enough in the past to give them five stars. This rating means the performance and its sonics are good enough for me to devote myself for the next two hours to listening to this oratorio.
With a 5-star rating I usually add critical comments. In this case they said that the Herreweghe performance included a superb narrator (Paul Agnew) whose performance is good enough to expand your concept of reverence.
Incidently, Aurender owners, because you are listening with your iPad in your lap, you can put the .pdf notes into iBooks and read the libretto while you listen. There is a very slick system that drives the librettos and the notes into the Conductor app which will hopefully be illuminated more as this thread evolves.
The "heart" marking in iTunes is new so it is not populated for most of my tracks. I plan to use it to give me a handle that finds all the desert island recordings in my library.
Filtering: In iTunes (and presumably in Aurender) you can select, say, all of your Christmas music that has a five star rating. This is very powerful since many Christmas records and compilations have tracks that are awful, so this selection will only play that ones that made the cut.
I hope this is helpful.
John Devereux