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[minolotus]

I have recently switched from using an external video player to the internal player. As the library field "last played" is not updated when playing files via an external player I used a custom library field which I updated manually. Now I do not need this field anymore and I want to get rid of it but before I would like to copy the data to the "last played" field. But this one has the edit type "clear only"  So, the $64,000 question is if there is a (top secret, nobody is allowed to know) way how I could updated the "last played" field? (Watching all movies again is not an option as my life time is limited  )

Thanks in advance

[glynor]

I don't think so, but you could try using the move/copy fields tool to trick it.  I think this used to work on Clear Only fields, but I think it was "fixed" later.

[minolotus]

Unfortunately, that does not work. The "last played" field is missing in the move/copy menu.

What I do not really understand is why the field is determined to clear only? Would it be so bad if the user could manually update the field?

[Alex B]

You can use justsomeguy's "Track Year/Genre Lookup for Best of and Compilation albums" Excel Macro for importing MC data to an Excel sheet and exporting it after copy pasting the column values in Excel: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=61935

EDIT

To use the Last Played field you may also need to convert the date values (Excel should be able to do it.): http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=59513.msg404286#msg404286

[minolotus]

Great, that worked perfect! 

Thank you very much for the solution.