3.3. Personal Track Ratings

Track ratings express how much you want a song to recur in your own mixes. 5 stars means you love it, 4 stars marks another favorite, 3 stars and Unrated are neutral, and 1-2 stars ask Harmonic DJ to use the track less often without excluding it.

Ratings are a soft preference after the hard musical and Mix rules. They can choose a favorite when otherwise-eligible routes are close, and they refine same-key alternatives and Gem Finder ordering. They never override exclusions, Allowed Keys, BPM requirements, transition-rule priority, a stronger saved-Gem rating, or any other eligibility constraint.

Ratings are available in both Community and Pro. Local and imported shared tracks can both be rated, and their rating is visible read-only in Mix and Gem Finder. The preference survives rescanning and later reimport of the same track path. A byte-identical moved file also keeps its rating when Harmonic DJ can relink it as described in Library Maintenance.

Ratings are private. Your path-based Library Metadata backup includes them, but shared collections and published Mix pages do not. A recipient can assign an independent rating to a shared track after import.