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The DJ's Feature Request Thread
keither:
Wicked.
Can't wait.
keither:
--- Quote from: vali mihai on April 30, 2009, 11:46:06 pm ---I still want the specific time TopHits SmartList (most played in the last week, in the last month etc. - customizable) integrated in MC13 like usual TopHits. :'( This feature is also another DJ future request - I play music with MC13 at a Radio Station. Perhaps a separated plug in? I will pay for this.
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Alex B:
MC has a wizard for creating that kind of smartlists.
See the attached screenshot. (log in to the forum if you can't see it)
Vali Mihai:
I know that. But the number of plays not show the reality specific in the last 7 days. MC Counts the all number of plays from beginning of media library.
The smart list should be like this:
[Number Plays]=>0 [Media Type]=[Audio] [Last Played]=04/27/2009-05/03/2009 ~sort=[Number Plays]-d,[Rating]-d,[Last Played]-d,[Date Created]-d,[Sequence],[Date Imported]-d ~n=20
But the result is wrong, 'cause is not returns the reality.....
Alex B:
MC does not store the date & time of each play. It only counts the total number of plays and stores the date & time of the last play.
You would need to do some manual maintaining to get what you want.
For instance, in order to get the weekly number of plays you could create a new field and copy the Number Plays values to the field in the beginning of the week.
In the end of the week you would need store the weekly statistics: create a smartlist that shows all tracks that were played during the week and use a calculated field to do the math: Math([Number Plays]-[your custom field]).
After that you could copy the list and the values included in the visible columns to a spreadsheet table (Ctrl+A > Ctrl+C > paste to Excel or similar) and in addition export the playlist in mpl and m3u formats (m3u is just a playlist, mpl contains also the field values) and store the files in a specific "week number" folder.
A different approach could be:
1. save a snapshot of the library to a new library backup file and name it appropriately
2. store the total number of plays to a custom field (this would be the sum of Number Plays and "last week's stored total number of plays")
3. reset the Number Plays values.
Whenever needed any of the stored library backup files could be restored to a new separate library and the statistical data could be accessed and exported.
Prossibly the steps 1-3 could be automated. Mr. ChriZ's Scripting Plugin might be able to do that.
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