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Unplayed Albums

2009-08-14 12:36:37

Is there a method to display any album that has none of it's tracks played?

Unplayed Albums

Reply #1 – 2009-08-14 18:37:26

It's only possible to show tracks that has not been played yet. unfortunately, you can't query the database albumwide or artistwide.

maybe, if you use columns ui you could use foo_playlist_tree_mod. I didn't use this component, but it's predecessor, foo_playlist_tree could query albumwide/artistwide/genrewide and so on. Actually, it didn't query the database for that, but it's own nested results (query in query).

Unplayed Albums

Reply #2 – 2009-08-14 18:42:37

Add the "Played" statistics column to an album pane in foo_facets

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #3 – 2021-09-26 08:24:00

Quote from: trebordean on 2009-08-14 12:36:37

Is there a method to display any album that has none of it's tracks played?

Reviving an old question...

I can get the albums displayed in a playlist column or facets (re: Shakey above) but is there currently a way to do this which is autoplaylist compatible?

I tried
Library > album list > filter by %last_played_enhanced% MISSING

but results are still track based and not album grouped.

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #4 – 2021-09-26 10:20:02

Quote from: mjm716 on 2021-09-26 08:24:00

I can get the albums displayed in a playlist column or facets (re: Shakey above) but is there currently a way to do this which is autoplaylist compatible?

I tried
Library > album list > filter by %last_played_enhanced% MISSING

but results are still track based and not album grouped.

"Library Tree" album list can apply filters and maintain album grouping, it already has a 'never played' preset.

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #5 – 2021-09-26 12:34:05

Quote from: mjm716 on 2021-09-26 08:24:00

is there currently a way to do this which is autoplaylist compatible?

Nope. That will always be track based.

I guess facets can't handle %last_played_enhanced% field so trying the Library Tree suggestion above might be your easier route (assuming customising the playcount field is easy and doesn't require editing the script).

foo_uie_sql_tree or the murky world of scripting with Spider Monkey Panel/JScript Panel are the harder ways to do it!

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #6 – 2021-09-26 13:46:57

Thanks to you both...

Quote from: Lucidae on 2021-09-26 10:20:02

"Library Tree" album list can apply filters and maintain album grouping, it already has a 'never played' preset.

I tried this and it is still track based - results are all albums with the played tracks removed.

I'm trying to remove an album from results if it had any played tracks.

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #7 – 2021-09-26 14:55:04

Here's a script for JScript Panel that generates a static playlist containing albums with no plays. Customise the fields at the beginning to suit. ~~It might work with SMP but not tested.~~ just remembered it won't work with SMP

It's a plain white panel and you double click to execute the code. Obviously it's just an example of what is possible, not meant for full time usage.

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var group_by = "%album artist%|%album%|%date%";
var filter_by = "album PRESENT";
var playcount = "$if2(%last_played_enhanced%,0)"; // must evaluate to zero for unplayed tracks

///////////////////////////////////

var tfo = {
	group_by : fb.TitleFormat(group_by),
	order_by : fb.TitleFormat(group_by + "|%discnumber%|%tracknumber%"),
	playcount : fb.TitleFormat(playcount),
}

function on_mouse_lbtn_dblclk() {
	var items = fb.GetQueryItems(fb.GetLibraryItems(), filter_by);
	items.OrderByFormat(tfo.order_by, 1);
	var album_list = fb.CreateHandleList();
	var to_add = fb.CreateHandleList();
	var current = "";
	var good = true;
	
	for (var i = 0; i < items.Count; i++) {
		var item = items.Item(i);
		
		var tmp = tfo.group_by.EvalWithMetadb(item);
		if (tmp != current) {
			if (good && album_list.Count) {
				to_add.AddRange(album_list);
			}
			
			album_list.RemoveAll();
			good = tfo.playcount.EvalWithMetadb(item) == 0;
			if (good) album_list.Add(item);
			current = tmp;
		} else {
			if (tfo.playcount.EvalWithMetadb(item) == 0) {
				if (good) album_list.Add(item);
			} else {
				if (album_list.Count) album_list.RemoveAll();
				good = false;
			}
		}
	}
	if (to_add.Count) {
		var p = plman.CreatePlaylist(plman.PlaylistCount, "Albums with no plays");
		plman.ActivePlaylist = p;
		plman.InsertPlaylistItems(p, 0, to_add);
	}
}

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #8 – 2021-09-26 15:18:23

Quote from: marc2k3 on 2021-09-26 14:55:04

Here's a script for JScript Panel that generates a static playlist containing albums with no plays.

Very nice - works well. Is there a mod to generate autoplaylist?

Re: Unplayed Albums

Reply #9 – 2021-09-26 15:57:46

Nope. No amount of scripting trickery can do that. What it is doing is looping over every track in the library and evaluating on a per track basis and keeping track of what the current state is for every track belonging to the same album - something not possible with standard title formatting.

I suppose it is possible to create a fake autoplaylist in the sense it clears and updates itself whenever playcounts change but playing from the playlist would be probematic because the focused/playing track would be lost each time.

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