[filo_beddo]

Hi.

A question to the developers:

When accessing my Kodi music library remotely via any uPnP compatible player do the songs served up get corresponding ' last played ' date recorded; as will happen when a song is played locally in Kodi ?

Put more technically:

* Playing a song within kodi generates an database event which updates the last-played field for that song.
* Does requesting a song via uPnP generate the same database event ?

I ask since I make use of the last-played field in my dynamic playlists to provided a greater randomisation by excluding tracks which have been playing in the last X number of days. I know this works with playing a playlist locally in Kodi, but am interested to know if my D/Playlists when accessed via uPnP are truly matching my criteria.

If the answer is no (about a uPnP event) then could I suggest/request this a future feature ?

Many thanks, plus awesome work on Kodi as ever; please keep it up!

EDIT: I just realise I perhaps should have posted this into ' Feature Requests ' but depending on the answer that may not be the case. Thanks.

Simon.

[filo_beddo]

[bump]

High-five! don't leave me hangin'

Dev team: Anyone able to comment ?

Thanks.

[filo_beddo]

[double-bump] !

[DaveBlake]

Dev team: Anyone able to comment ?

Clearly not hence the lack of reply.
Bumping here just bugs me, and I don't know anything about uPNP, nor have a compatible player to test it out.

[filo_beddo]

Sorry Dave, I certainly did not mean to bug with my bumps but I take your point .......

In this case I shall hopefully add some value; answering my own question by posting results of a test I did myself:


My Test

Using a fresh clean profile* in Kodi (v16.1 final, running under Windows) I added a new music source folder which contains just one track; to simplify the test.
Within Kodi I played the track (via selecting it from the library now updated for the new source) a couple of times.

I then grabbed the MyMusic56.db file from the profile location and opened it in ‘ DB Browser for SQLite ‘. I ran a query to get information about the single track, specifically its play-count / last-played data:

SELECT strTitle, iTimesPlayed, LastPlayed
FROM song

The result showed the following:

"Umbrella" "2" "2016-10-20 10:16:05"

So the expected confirmation that the track had a play-count of 2 and a last-played date/time.

With Kodi sharing its library via uPnP I then browsed to the library via another media-player (which could have been another Kodi instance). In my case, for simplicity in this test, I just used ‘ Windows Media Player ‘ on the same machine.

In WMP I played the single track via the uPnP share. I then again grabbed a copy of the MyMusic56.db file from Kodi’s profile and ran my SQL query again.
I could see from the DB files date-stamp straight away that it had not changed but for completeness my finding on running the SQL query again on a it showed the same play-count and last-played data as the previous action had.

So confirmation that consuming a library music track via uPnP does not trigger any corresponding action such as a play within Kodi itself will; e.g. to trigger an action to update the database with an incremented ‘iTimesPlayed’ field and modified ‘LastPlayed’.


*I cleaned via simply deleting all music sources from the Kodi install, exiting and then deleting the MyMusic56.db file from the profile so that a fresh one would be created when I started Kodi again to begin my test.

I plan to raise a feature request around these results; the request asking that consumation of a music file via uPnP triggers the same DB updating events as a play within Kodi would.

Hope this information is of use to someone ......

FB.

[DaveBlake]

Good on you for doing your own testing and reporting back. Thank you.