[jberinga]

Kodi has settings in advancedsettings.xml that you can adjust that determines when a song counts as being played. I prefer any songs that I started playback to count as played so have set as follows:

Code:

<audio>
    <playcountminimumpercent>80</playcountminimumpercent>
    <ignoresecondsatstart>180</ignoresecondsatstart>
    <ignorepercentatend>8</ignorepercentatend>
</audio>

Maybe some variations of these will give you what you want?

EDIT: There is also some explanation here http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_auto..._explained
It relates to video, but similar with music.

Thanks DaveBlake! This seems to work perfectly after editing the settings.