GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 600067
Allow to change playcount in the track editor
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:02:33 UTC
If I import an new music library, because I installed banshee on a new Computer, updated OS whatever, there are thousands of unplayed songs, I had already listened at. There should be an option to make all of them played once to remove them from the smart Playlist "Not Played".
You should copy the banshee database [1] to the new computer along with the media files if the data it contains is important to you. Or you can write playcounts to the files when this feature is implemented [2] [1] The database can be found in ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db [2] See bug 532650
And what if you import the music from a not managed environment into banshee?
Changed the summary to make it more clear. See also the last sentence in bug 559013, comment 23
Aaron had created a sample extension for a blog post[1] that did exactly this. I was always hoping that this would someday be included with Banshee because I was having a killer hard time adding it to my current banshee. I didn't even think about this until you changed this bug's title, but adding this into Banshee and making sure you can use it while editing multiple tracks would take care of this issue nicely. http://abock.org/2008/11/17/a-couple-of-ideas-for-contributing-to-banshee
As far as I can see, Aaron's extension doesn't account for multiple selection but it's a good start nonetheless.
...and while we're on the subject, it would be awesome if this History editor could hand incremental/decremental values in addition to raw numbers. For example, you could select a group of songs and give them a play count of +1, which would add one play to each song.
*** Bug 627378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mentioned in the duplicate: updating the playcount through the editor should update it not only in the database, but also in the file's metadata, if the "Write Ratings and Playcounts to File" option is on.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.