Playback Statistics component
Reply #111 – 2008-07-07 00:56:23
FEATURE REQUEST: Would it be possible for Playback Statistics to either: a) record "Total Played Time per Track", or b) allow an option whereby Playback Statistics offers an additional (alternative) playcount based on: Total Played Time per Track / Track LengthWhy would this be good? 1) It gives you a far more accurate reading. Currently, if I play the first 1 min of a 10 min song 10 times, foo_playcount says I've played it 10 times, whereas "total played time" / "track length" would say I've played it once. Though this is not entirely accurate, it's far, far closer to the truth. 2) It's a good way to eliminate the need for skip counts. 3) It would not affect those users who always play their files all the way through, but it would beneficially affect those users who skip from track to track and still require an accurate reading of how often they've listened to each track. 4) It eliminates the need for any "count if played when played x %" or "count if played when played > 2 mins" kind of options. 5 Kanak has suggested %play_time% which would be purely the total played time per song. This would give users the opportunity to do: %play_time% / %track_length% as a column ("play count") format, and I think this a nice idea. 6) Alternatively, foo_playcount could do the calculation itself and output something like %play_count_alt% which would yield the same result as above (5). Clearly, if foo_playcount used "total played time" / "track length" it would want to round down to the nearest integer. Thanks for taking the time to consider this request. C.