Mark songs as played sooner?

[Murphy]

Hi!

Right now, a song is marked as played in the break between two songs.
So I can start a song, skip 98% directly to the end and it counts as played.
When I listen to 98% of the song from the start and skip only the last 2% it does not count and hence gets no new timestamp.

Is there any way to count a song as soon as e.g. 70% have been played?

The latest Winamp does this pretty well.
You can set up the percentage of a song to be played until it's tracked whereas it doesn't matter which parts of the song you play.

To bad I like MM infinite times better than Winamp

Long story short:
Is it possible? And if not, do you consider implementing it?
It surely would be awesome

Greetings, Murphy.

[nohitter151]

Theres no way to change that at the moment. Its on the wishlist so hopefully MM can implement something similar.

[Murphy]

What a bummer... then I guess I will have to play the waiting game and hope for the best

Thanks for the fast reply!

[Bex]

Not what you asking for but this script lets you easily "add one play, timestamp now" so you don't have to skip to the end to get it "played":
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=31809

[nynaevelan]

Not what you asking for but this script lets you easily "add one play, timestamp now" so you don't have to skip to the end to get it "played":
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=31809

...and so much more

Nyn

[Mizery_Made]

Correction, a song gets a play if you play more then 50% of it and it reaches the end. Thus, you can start a song and only listen to five seconds and then skip to the end.

[Big_Berny]

I thought its 33%?

My script AutoRateAccurate stores if you played for example 57% of a song and increases the playcounter as soon this counter reaches 100% (for example if you listen again 51% then the playcounter will increase, the timestamp set and it stores 8% for that song (as 57%+51% is 108%). But it's not a main feature of the script as it's basically a autorating-script.

[Bex]

Currently it works like this:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 08#p128808

Marruti, you are right.

In MM3 there is increased playcount everytime the end of the played song is reached (and you listened at least 1 minute of the song or the song is shorter than 3 minutes). This behaviour (need to reach the end) is preferable in MM3 because of podcasts and audiobooks which need to be listened whole to be considered as played. I guess we are planning to imrove it somehow for the feature versions, something is already in our bug tracking system.

[Murphy]

Ah, now I see. Seems like I tested it with a file shorter than 3 minutes, then.
Sounds like there is basically the same functionality as in Winamp, except you can't customize it

I don't really know what a shoutcast is, so I don't understand why it has to be played completely, but it's nice to hear somebody is planning to work on it

@Bex
Thanks, now I can at least work my way up to more accurate statistics

@Big_Berny
AutoRateAccurate sounds fantastic, but it eats up my CPU if I enable it.
I will give it another shot over night.

[Big_Berny]

Please report if you have any problems with the script. I'll try to fix them as soon as possible.