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

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EnglishTiger:
Thanks zybex - ZStats is super efficient and I love the level of detail on the progress report.  ;D

The is one thing I would like to see, if possible/easy and that is for it to produce Playlists for Album and Artist stats similar to the ones it creates for Play Stats

zybex:
Hi ET,
Not sure what the Artist/Album playlists would contain... we can only add tracks to a playlist. So if a given artist is the Top Played artist, would it add ALL tracks from that artist? It doesn't make much sense to me. Can you please elaborate?

EnglishTiger:
Hi zybex

In lots of ways my request was based on the fact that ZStats provides the additional Album and Artists Stats but doesn't provide any thing, like playlists, that utilises that data.

After playing around with the Playlists created for Play Stats I reckon I could probably feed those Playlists into 1 or more "Most Popular Album" and "Most Popular Artist" views or smartlists.

Before using ZStats I cleared out the  Number Plays, Last Played and Last Played(Album) Fields and then set up the Play History field.
Hopefully this is down to me not fully understanding the data in the Artist Stats and Album Stats fields; in the attached image the highlighted text has values in those 2 fields that look "wrong" to me.

That Track has only been played once, it is the only track that has been played from that album and it is the only track by the artist "Status Quo" that has been played in the period since I installed Zstats

ET

zybex:
Yeah, the "25" doesn't look right.

ZStats by default groups files by [filename (path)] to calculate the Album stats. This is because at the time I assumed that people would always have a separate folder for each album - a bad assumption which is of course not always true. I guess you have more files/albums in the same folder as that Status Quo track? Or perhaps it's a Compilation album.

Try this - find this line in the ZStats.ini:
GroupByField=Filename (path)

And replace it with:
GroupByField=Artist - Album (Year)

Regarding the artist stats... strange. I would need to see your DB, if you care to share it.

EnglishTiger:
I always keep all the tracks for every individual album  in the same folder, regardless of how many discs make up the album.

So for Studio Albums, which can include Greatest Hits labelled albums, the filename structure is Artists/Album Artist/Album/disc#-track#-track name
For Multi-Artist Compilation Albums the filename structure is Compilations/Collection Name/Album//disc#-track#-track name
For Classical Music Boxsets the filename structure is Classical/Composer/Album//disc#-track#-track name

Where the "Artists", "Compilations" and "Classical" folder names are designated by me to reflect the type of music that is in those folders, whilst the "Collection Name" is from a field/tag I added to MC to differentiate between the differing sources of Compilations and also the different Collection/Series names from people like "Now That's What I Call Music".

In addition there can be up to 6 discs in each "Compilation" album and up to  160 discs in each "Classical" album and yes I do consider a Boxset to be an Album.

I agree the "25" in that Status Quo track does look wrong, probably even more so when you look at this set of numbers:-

I have 448 Status Quo Track spread across 34 Studio Albums and 17 tracks spread across 16 Compilation Albums.

The smartlist I use to feed Playing Now selects one track that has never been played with a genre that is not Classical from each disk, removes any Artist & Name duplicates and provides a list that is 100 tracks long sorted by Artist.

Since Friday morning  MC on the win pc has probably played about 1,000 tracks and according to the Number Plays field/album that is the only Status Quo track that has been played;
but it has has played more than 1 track by the same Artist and more than 1 track on the same album.

I have once again cleared down the Number Plays, Last Played, Last Played(Album), Play History, Play Stats, Artist Stats and Album Stats fields and changed zstats.ini to not collect/generate the Artists Stats, Album Stats or PreHistory data.

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