Unfortunately, that would be extremely annoying for those who may want change [Number of Plays] without changing [Last Played].
Hadn't considered that.
Well, I don't see any particular reason that they shouldn't
both be directly editable, but I often fall on that side of the coin in these discussions... Other than
maybe that coding the error logic on the [Last Played] field (which would have to be different from [Date] which allows you to enter just a year and other such nonsense) would take Matt a little bit of time he doesn't feel like spending. The date parsing should be basically all done, with the stuff MC already has.
In any case, I personally wouldn't care if it didn't touch the [Last Played] field at all and just left it blank when you bump the [Number of Plays] field. I go by [Number of Plays] typically and only glance at the [Last Played] occasionally.
So, if we only get one, that would be my top priority.In fact, it might be kind of nice to have [Last Played] stay blank when you bump the [Number of Plays] field, as it would serve as a sort-of "indicator" that you bumped it manually. I only really suggested the alternative because I thought... Two birds. Plus, it is also
possible that there is logic elsewhere in MC that depends on the fact that you can't have a zero [Last Played] with a non-zero [Number of Plays] and vice-verse (weird little buggy fear).
One other thing that would be handy is the ability to quickly reset them back to zero (and this I don't think would go foul of your desire, Rick)... The other major reason I find the need to occasionally tweak the [Number of Plays] field is when I "check through" a video file (looking at quality, completeness, and checking for corruption). If I'm not careful, this ends up incrementing the [Number of Plays]. You can fix it if you remove it from the library and re-import, of course, but that's a sledgehammer approach... What if you already spent a while tagging it? Then you'd have to edit the JRSidecar manually instead of just deleting it... And the process is annoying anyway, with the deleted items database and all.
Editing them both would be good.