Add Playlists to "Recently Played" in Music Library Suggestions Tab

[Tremas 197]

The requested feature is to include library items other than tracks in the "Recently Played" section of the "Suggestions" tab in a Music library. These items would be added based on which library item was selected for the play activity. This would require the system to identify which library item received the play command.

Currently, the "Recently Played" section only displays a log of individual tracks. It would be better titled "Track History" or "Recent Tracks." The requested feature would include other music library items such as playlists, albums, artists, genres, etc. depending on where the "play" action was initiated.

For example, if the "Play" button was selected from an album view, then the album would be added to the "Recently Played" section. If "Play" was selected from a playlist view, that playlist would be added to the "Recently Played" section. If an individual track was selected from any of those views, than that track (and only that track) would be added to the "Recently Played" section - other tracks following the track that received the "play" command would not be added to the "Recently Played" section. This would be true for all library items/views: Album, Album Artist, Artists, Composers, Playlists, Collections, Genres, Songs, and Tags. The "Shuffle" command would also be treated as a "play" command (ie. "Shuffle" clicked from the album view would add the album to the "Recently Played" section).

This behavior works very well in other music applications such as Roon/Arc. Instead of a running history of all tracks, this section would now recall the most recent user actions in the library (play a song, play a playlist, play a genre, etc.). Instead of a log of played songs, the "Recently Played" section becomes a series of shortcuts/macros based on recent activity which is much more useful.

It also has the added benefit of resolving other feature requests such as adding albums to continue watching such as the following:

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes it makes sense. Thanks for the feedback.

[Tremas 197]

Just to follow on.. ideally the "Recently Played" row with the new behavior could added to the home screen as a configured option. Not sure if that would require the incoming "smart views" but having this on the home screen would go a long way to using emby for music on a phone.