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ZStats tool to process [Play History] statistics, generate TOP N playlists

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zybex:
I've published ZStats 1.0, a mini-tool to compile statistics from the [Play History] field and create a bunch of user-defined Top Plays playlists with the most played tracks for any given time range (daily/weekly/monthly/custom). It can also write the stats back to a field to be used in views/expressions/smartlists.
 
This tool is intended to be used with the [Play History] tracking field as described here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,130266.0.html

Please read the tool description and instructions in GitHub:
https://github.com/zybexXL/MCStats#zstats

This tool has no GUI - it's intended to be scheduled to run nightly to update all statistics in the library, though you can also just run it at any time to update immediately.

zybex:
v1.0.1 published with some bugfixes - looks like I somehow missed the month of October on the month enumeration ::)
https://github.com/zybexXL/MCStats/releases

lepa:
Thanks zybex for adding another cool toy to the Z-family.

One note to users that first time you might want run UpdateStats=0 and then change created [Play Stats], [Album Stats] and  [Artist Stats] fields not to write to file tags as with big libraries it would take a long time to write tags into files. At least I prefer Stats to be written only to MC library field.

zybex:
Thanks Lepa!
The default config has UpdateStats=0, and the [Album Stats] and [Artist Stats] sections are also disabled by default (so only the Playlists get created).
Note that the fields will NOT be created when UpdateStats=0, so the best is for the user to manually create those fields before activating UpdateStats. Alternatively, you can abort ZStats shortly after it starts with CTRL+C after it creates the fields (you can safely CTRL+C at any time). You can then fix the field definitions in MC and re-run ZStats to update the statistics.

The description text on the project page mentions the slow-write issue at the bottom. Thanks for pointing out the potential problem.

JimH:
Thanks, zybex!

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