The issue is that there is no 'standard' way. Yate can interpret them however you want and can translate them from one system to another via the Translate Rating action statement. Depending on what your settings are it is possible that the ratings are being displayed incorrectly and that nothing is lost.
Yate supports three modes for ratings:
Direct: 0-5)
iTunes: (0-100)
Full: (0-255)
The assignment of stars in Full is programmable and can be interpreted any way you wish (across all file types).
Additionally, RATING in FLAC files can be disconnected so that Yate will not display the rating in the star display but it will still be viewable/editable as a UDTI.
How you go forward largely depends on which player you are going to be using. For example if you use Audirvana, the FLAC rating has to be Direct.
If you have FLAC set to Full, no metadata should have been lost as Yate will merely interpret them incorrectly. If you had FLAC set to Direct, metadata will have been lost when files were saved as the ratings will have been coerced into the specified format.
So....the bottom line is we need some questions answered. In which application will you be playing the tracks? Do you want to translate the ratings from the 0,2,4,6,8,10 values to those used by another application? Do you want to leave them "as is" and disable Yate modification of the values (and edit them as UDTIs)? The issue is further complicated in that Yate only supports one full mapping at a time. Do you have other audio file types as well as FLAC? What are your current FLAC/Full settings in preferences, (if Full nothing should have been lost)?
Please get us the answers and we can advise how to translate or disable the ratings.
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