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#291237 - 08/12/2006 01:19 Play count pseudo-randomness
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
After upgrading from 1.03 to 2.0final, I have some interesting play count data. Thought 1.03 never said it maintained play counts, it seems to have. However, many songs I've played have 0 count and a handfull have 20+ count.

Oddly, the distribution is not random. Songs from albums I rarely, if ever, listen to have the 20+ playcounts. Some songs I've heard many times have the 0 counts. Most of the others have realistic counts, but I don't know which to trust.

I'll probably try to erase all play counts and start from scratch. Does that still require running builder and reuploading everything? Or can I just tamper with the metadata on the scratch drive somehow?

Ah, I should add .LRCs to everything and reupload.
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#291238 - 08/12/2006 06:41 Re: Play count pseudo-randomness [Re: FireFox31]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
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There is a thread on how to wipe dynamic data but I can't remember just now. If you can't find it by this evening I know I have it saved somewhere on my home machine so I'll let you know.
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#291239 - 08/12/2006 12:54 Re: Play count pseudo-randomness [Re: frog51]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
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Loc: Canada
Quote:
There is a thread on how to wipe dynamic data but I can't remember just now. If you can't find it by this evening I know I have it saved somewhere on my home machine so I'll let you know.


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 bs=512 seek=4096

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#291240 - 08/12/2006 16:50 Re: Play count pseudo-randomness [Re: mlord]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
Thanks Mark, sounds painless. What other dynamic data does that erase? "Date last played"? "Date added"? I wonder if it will erase something that I wanted. (ha, as if running the builder would have saved it?)
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#291241 - 08/12/2006 17:07 Re: Play count pseudo-randomness [Re: FireFox31]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
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It wipes any and all "per-tune" data, and only that.

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#291242 - 08/12/2006 21:34 Re: Play count pseudo-randomness [Re: FireFox31]
tfabris
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#291243 - 09/12/2006 19:27 Re: Play count pseudo-randomness [Re: tfabris]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
Oops, sorry, forgot to check the FAQ. Only searched the BBS (with my weak search ability).

Thanks guys. I may only delete and reupload the songs which incorrectly have 0 and 20+ plays. Odd that it's whole albums of them.
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