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[jphilpit]

I use the "Last Played" tag in the Albums view to help me decide what to listen to. According to the data at the bottom of the screen, I have 64.5 days of music in my library, so I usually try to listen to tracks I've not listened to recently. When I play an entire album, each of its tracks gets set with a time stamp, except the first track in the album, which remains at "never played." I'm using the network to send my music to one of two separate DLNA renderers over Ethernet cables. With the same behavior from both renderers, I have to assume it's not the fault of the renderer. And this happens every time I play an entire album.

My approach to playing an album is to select an album from either the "Artist" or "Album" list. Once I have the tracks of a single album listed in its own page, I double-click on the first track and that starts the playback of the entire album.

I realize this is not a big issue, but I like seeing 100% accuracy in my metadata.

I'm running MC 21.0.50 in Windows 10.

[blgentry]

Hmm, that's definitely not expected.  I display Last Played as a column in Playing Now so I can sort on it for various reasons.

I just tried your method:

1.  Find an album in Albums.
2.  Double click the first song and watch all songs in album replace Playing Now.
3.  Listen to first song and watch Last Played.

On my system, Last Played changed to today's date and time in the last few seconds of playback of the first track; just as I expected it to.  I did this in a regular zone local zone.

Then I repeated the experiment with a DLNA zone.  My DLNA zone is fairly unreliable.  I have to restart the hardware from time to time.  It also does strange things sometimes.  This time was no different.  I would only play one song and then stop.  So I restarted the renderer and tried again.

This time I would play through to the next song correctly.  I did several experiments because I noticed something else odd:  As track #1 was ending, the Last Played got updated correctly.  But then track #2's Last Played was updated at the exact same time.  On repeated experiments, this happened each time.

So I'm not seeing what you're seeing, but I'm seeing something else unexpected with DLNA playback.

Brian.