I’ve slowly been trying to rate a bunch of my mp3’s in iTunes. Its a real pain to be constantly switching to iTunes when each new song begins to rate it. I knew there had to be a better way. Google to the rescue. I initially found Synergy, but it wasn’t free so I kept looking. My next search yeilded You Control: Tunes, which to my delight was free and fit the bill!
You Control: Tunes has a wide variety of features. Using You Control: Tunes you can navigate through your music via small back, forward, play, and pause buttons located in your menu bar (previously I used Bytecontroller for this). 
You can also rate the song that is currently playing by clicking on the star ratings next to the navigation buttons. Another neat aspect of this little application is that when a new track begins a small window pops up showing you the artist, song name, album art and other configurable information.
This helpful application has allowed me to easily rate my music while keeping most of my concentration focused at the task at hand. I’d recommend that you at least give You Control: Tunes a shot. Since its free, there’s no loss if you don’t like it. But, I doubt you’ll be uninstalling this puppy!
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I’ve been using Synergy for years, and it is the best iTunes controler out there! I used to play with others controllers but if you want a full controller that also let you do different tasks at the same time without been a memory eater, Synergy it’s the iTunes controller you are looking for!
Yeah, Synergy looks pretty awesome. The only reason that I’m using You Control: Tunes instead is because its free :)
hoe do you get the stars on the toolbar?
Jeff:
What App you are refering to? synergy or you control:tunes?
If you Control click anywhere in the You Control: Tunes menu bar you will be given a menu. The second option in the menu is Configure. Select that. This window will pop up.
The check box in the very bottom right, “Show Rating Buttons”, will enable the ratings button (the stars) in your menu bar :)
Enjoy!