Mysterious winamp ratings that come from nowhere

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Published on 2010-03-30T19:56:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 20:03 UTC
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Winamp gives the option to rate songs. This is not a new feature. Everytime I would reinstall Windows and reinstall Winamp my ratings would all go away as expected, and I would have to re-rate everything.

However, this time when I reinstalled Winamp, after using it for a few days, songs would appear in my top rated list as being rated. Some of these I remember rating a long time ago before I reinstalled Windows, and some of these I don't remember ever rating.

Where are these ratings coming from?

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