5.52 play count randomly not updating?

[IndieRockSteve]

it seems that the playcounter is not updating after playing tracks, but only randomly, sometimes it seems to work, others it doesn't. like I'll select an album to play from the library it gets added to the queue and starts playing. sometimes after a track plays I'll refresh the library scan and it will show the play count as having gone up by one, but sometimes if i wait after a few tracks play and do the same thing none of the tracks get updated. or if in the middle of playback of an album i stop playback, then quit winamp and load it again later the tracks that i've already played from the album don't show as having their play count updated.

i don't know if this is new, but i recently noticed it since updating to 5.52

[last.fm]

I have the exact same problem.
Play count in the 5.5 is not updating!

I hope this will be fixed soon!

[validator]

I have songs in my Top Rated list I listen to over and over and still no play count increments. On others it works fine. Can't see why it would song specific, but hey, there's a clue it might be. Else a similar but unrelated problem. Pretty daft if you ask me. How hard can setting playcount be ;-).

[whitesocks]

This is still an issue in winamp 5.63:
I think the bug is with the 'Automatically add played files' option,
which is under preferences-local media then the watch Folders tab.

Having the 'Automatically add played files' checkbox unselected obviously should mean new tracks do not get added to the library, but if they are already there, it seems reasonable that their play counts are increased, and the track added to the recently played list.

However if that option is not selected, and you play a track directly from your file manager or from a playlist within winamp, (despite the track already being in the library),
you can get different results:

If the track has never been played before, it will not be added to the recently played list or have its playcount increased to 1.
If it has been recorded as having been played before, then the counts are increased as expected.

Play the same track directly from the library, then the counts are increased as expected.


I think winamp mistakenly looks for the track in the played tracks lists rather than all audio tracks, to determine if the track is new to winamp.

So I suggest the immediate work around for problem like this, is make sure the 'Automatically add played files' checkbox is ticked.

(I've only started taking an interest in playcounts now you can successfully back them up and edit them, albeit through the export/import xml functionality.)

Keep up the good work winamp teamers - it is still a great product.

[MrSinatra]

you can also back them up via the winamp backup tool. i would like to see playcounts maintained in the tags, and read into the ML.