Switch from Rate Your Music and keep your ratings
Rate Your Music lets you export your catalog as a CSV. Here is how it comes across, ratings and reviews included.
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Have your export? Create a free account and the Import Studio opens as soon as you're in. Nothing is saved until you've seen the preview.
Start importingWho this move suits
RYM has the deepest music database and the charts to match, and anyone who has rated hundreds of albums there should keep the account. What it doesn't do is sit next to the films, books and games you also care about. Importing gives you one record of all of it, with your music ratings intact.
RYM's export stores ratings as whole numbers out of 10, where five stars is 10. They come across unchanged.
Get your Rate Your Music export
- Sign in on rateyourmusic.com and open your profile page.
- Look for the option to export your data, usually near the bottom of the profile, and choose the plain text or CSV export of your catalog.
- Save the CSV and choose it in the Import Studio. It's recognized by its RYM Album column.
What comes across
| In Rate Your Music | In OmniTrackr |
|---|---|
| Title, artist (first and last name, or band name) | Album title and artist |
| Release_Date | Year |
| Rating | Rating out of 10, unchanged |
| Rated, or owned without a rating | Marked listened |
| Wishlist | Not listened yet |
| Review | A private note |
A title you already track is skipped, so your own rating, review and progress are never replaced. A title repeated in the file is created once. Imported notes stay private until you publish one.
What stays on Rate Your Music
- Genre votes, descriptors and lists.
- Ratings for films, which RYM keeps separately.
- Purchase dates and media type.
Import and check
- Create a free account and open Account Settings, then Import Studio.
- Leave the format on Detect automatically, choose your file and select Preview import. The preview names the format it recognized.
- Look at the counts for ready, duplicate and needs-attention rows, then page through a few and compare them with Rate Your Music.
- Confirm. Every ready row is saved together, or none are if something goes wrong.
One import can hold up to 5,000 titles and 5 MB. Split a bigger history into several files; titles saved by an earlier file are recognized as duplicates.
Your first week after switching
- Look at your music statistics. A full RYM history fills the decade and rating charts at once.
- Write up one album you rated 10 and share the review.
- Add the podcasts and audiobooks you listen to, so all your listening is in one place.
Questions
- Do my ratings need converting?
- No. RYM's export is already out of 10, so a 4.5-star album arrives as 9/10.
- Why do some artist names have odd characters?
- RYM escapes characters like ampersands in its file. They're turned back into normal text on import.
- Will albums I already track be duplicated?
- No. Albums are matched on title and artist, and a match is skipped.
Ready to bring your albums across? Sign up free and you land in the Import Studio.
Start importingComing from somewhere else?
Or use a spreadsheet: the export and import guide shows the columns.
How this guide was checked
Written by OmniTrackr and checked against the Import Studio on . Rate Your Music changes its menus from time to time, so the steps say where to look rather than quoting every button. If something no longer matches, tell us through Contact.