Play count of an item goes up every time you press play

[caalin 67]

I noticed recently while using Kodi that one episode had a play count of 3, even though I was sure I had watched it only once. Then I remembered that it took me three sessions to finish the episode, so I did some digging and it looks like every time you play an item the play count goes up. It doesn't matter if you finish the thing or if you play just one second, it will just +1 the playCount field in the database. Is this by design or a bug? Shouldn't the play count  go up only after reaching the threshold at which an item gets marked as watched?

 

On the same note, can we have the play count and the last played date displayed somewhere? Maybe next to the date added or, if not, in the media details section.

[GrimReaper 4762]

I think that playCount should reflect how many instances were actually started, regardless of Watched state, which should be another counter. Real life example: in my (albeit special) circumstances, single account is shared between 10-odd users. For an item with high Play count but low Watched count, it would be pretty safe to assume it ain't worth the time. 

I do like the idea, tho, of Counters and Last Played added as a stat somewhere. 

Edit: Or an option to, as Playback Reporting plugin does, aggregate multiple plays into single one. 

Edited December 4, 2020 by GrimReaper76
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[caalin 67]

19 hours ago, GrimReaper76 said:

I think that playCount should reflect how many instances were actually started, regardless of Watched state, which should be another counter. Real life example: in my (albeit special) circumstances, single account is shared between 10-odd users. For an item with high Play count but low Watched count, it would be pretty safe to assume it ain't worth the time. 

I do like the idea, tho, of Counters and Last Played added as a stat somewhere. 

Edit: Or an option to, as Playback Reporting plugin does, aggregate multiple plays into single one. 

Wait, are you saying that you guys are 10 persons that use only one user profile? Special case would be an understatement. How do you manage to watch tv shows, with everyone messing up each others' viewing order? Also, it doesn't sound like it would be a good rating system, because you don't account for accidental plays or for the fact that tastes can be quite different in a 10 person group. There's already a rating for each item.

For me. it's too of an inaccurate representation of my viewing habits,. Sometimes I fall asleep, sometimes it autoplays the next episode, but I can't watch it, sometimes I have to stop something while in progress because I have to do something else, sometimes I'm just testing something and I end up with high play counts for things that I haven't even watched

As for Watched, right now it's just a flag

[GrimReaper 4762]

On 12/5/2020 at 8:27 AM, caalin said:

Wait, are you saying that you guys are 10 persons that use only one user profile? Special case would be an understatement. How do you manage to watch tv shows, with everyone messing up each others' viewing order? Also, it doesn't sound like it would be a good rating system, because you don't account for accidental plays or for the fact that tastes can be quite different in a 10 person group. There's already a rating for each item.

LOL yeah, at any given time there's like 10-15 users on that single username. Over the last few years, that same User has seen some 200+ users. Since there's no internal voting system on Emby nor User copy template - which would actually make it worth my time to create each user separately - that metrics (ratio played/watched) would actually be a pretty good indicator on that large a userbase, even accounting for accidental plays. Which could be made moot with "aggregate plays shorter than" option. 

Edited December 5, 2020 by GrimReaper76
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