Most played only counts looped songs once

[hiltjemar]

I've just been using Poweramp for a couple of days and I just noticed that most played only counts looped songs once.

I'm on a Samsung S8 with Android 9

Build 926-933

And I use the unlocked version of Poweramp.

[andrewilley]

Correct, playing the same song on Repeat won't keep adding to the play count ad infinitum, it's considered one play until you move on to another song.

Also, playing a song again from within the Most Played Category list won't change the general count either.

Andre

[maxmp]

@hiltjemar if there is a request for counting it in a loop, let me know - I guess option for that can be added (when track statistics will be improved - this is a planned short term feature "package").

[hiltjemar]

@maxmp Thanks, yes I would definitely appreciate the option.

[andrewilley]

A few people have suggested in the past that repeat plays should cause the song-played counter to increment multiple times, and I do think this would be a good idea. It intuitively feels right for the system to behave that way, and the song-played count should increase with each actual playback of the song.

Another related request/bug report was regarding the current logic of PA only incrementing the song-played count at the specific moment when you move on to a new track, and then only if the current playback cursor position is numerically greater than the preset threshold value - which could be triggered by merely skipping to almost the end of a track without actually listening to any of it. This causes problems with single-play modes, where after playing the whole song the counter sets itself back to zero before the user can move on to another track, so the play-count value does not get increased.
 

I would suggest to resolve all of these in one go, in future the 'song-played' value should be incremented dynamically during playback at the point where the duration of music that has been heard within one song exceeds the threshold. Simply moving the cursor around within the same song should not cause a second or third increment (as it's basically still one playback) but if the counter position is set fully back to zero - either manually by the user, or due to Repeat or single-play functionality - the duration counter should commence again and allow for further play-count increments to potentially occur.

[Edit: Just a thought, but it might be an idea to allow the 'Played Times' count for a song to be a user editable field in the Info/Tags editor, allow the user to correct individual issues themselves too] 

Andre

[Ayato612]

Hello! I've been looking this up if this has been raised already and found this thread. Is it still possible if a single song in repeat mode can increment the play count simultaneously? I think its the only nitpick I have on PA as I like to play a single song most of the times and I also want to see how many times have I played it. only to find out that its play count is not incremented so I can easily find it on the top of my "Most Played". Hoping this would be a feature for the next update 

[andrewilley]

Agreed, see my reply above from two years ago. I agree that the play counter is a bit inconsistent in the way that it only increments based on the cursor position when playback moves on to a new track. I'm going to move this to Bug Reports, as even though it's behaving as the original design would imply, it's clearly not working as users would expect.

This means that repeat plays are currently not counted. Also, listening all the way through a song but pressing Stop before moving on to a new track (including if you are using Single Song mode) is not counted either.

And conversely, if you don't listen to a song at all, but simply move the playback cursor to somewhere near the end of the song and allow playback to move on to the next track from there, is incorrectly counted as a play even though you have not listened to the song at all.

@maxmp Any chance you could take a look at this, as current behaviour is clearly not users would expect. My suggested fix was:

On 5/13/2022 at 9:57 AM, andrewilley said:

I would suggest to resolve all of these in one go, in future the 'song-played' value should be incremented dynamically during playback at the point where the duration of music that has been heard within one song exceeds the threshold. Simply moving the cursor around within the same song should not cause a second or third increment (as it's basically still one playback) but if the counter position is set fully back to zero - either manually by the user, or due to Repeat or single-play functionality - the duration counter should commence again and allow for further play-count increments to potentially occur.

 Andre