Click
Click a star
Click a star in the menu bar to set the rating. Click the lit star again to clear it, or the heart to mark the track as a favorite.
Menu bar app for Music on Mac
Rate what’s playing.
Right from the menu bar.
SoloStars shows the star rating of the track playing in Music and changes it with a click or a hotkey. Five stars and a heart, always in view.
Now playing03 / 12
Night Drive (Solo Edit)
Marlow
Try it: click a star or press ⌃⌥⌘1–5Tap a star to try it
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How it works
Three ways to rate
Keys
Rate from any app
⌃⌥⌘1–5 set the stars, ⌃⌥⌘0 clears them, ⌃⌥⌘L toggles the heart. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.
Menu
Right-click for more
The menu shows the track, the full rating list, Settings and Quit.
For big libraries
Made for libraries with thousands of tracks.
Rate tracks while they play, without switching to Music. Ratings are saved to your Music library, so smart playlists such as “4 stars and up” update right away.
Smart playlist in Music
Rating is greater than
Updates as you rate
Specs
Specifications
- Works with
- Music on Mac. Tracks in your library, from Apple Music or your own files.
- Rating
- 0 to 5 stars, whole stars only
- Favorite
- Heart, the same favorite as in Music
- Hotkeys
- ⌃⌥⌘1–5, ⌃⌥⌘0, ⌃⌥⌘L. Each one can be changed.
- Menu bar
- Follows light and dark menu bars
- Startup
- Optional launch at login
- Privacy
- No data collected. No network access.
- Requires
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Developer
- SoloMedia
Data not collected.
SoloStars talks only to Music on your Mac. It has no account, no analytics and no network access.