But when looking at the play history the plays are not being shown.
Are plays marked via this endpoint visible in the history in general? And if yes, what do I need to add to the api call in order to solve this problem.
Currently my call url looks like this:
PUT url = `${baseUrl}/:/scrobble?X-Plex-Token=${token}&key=${ratingKey}&identifier=com.plexapp.plugins.library`
This happens when the track is played for a long enough period of time to qualified as “played” (more than 1 minute?) but less than the percentage of the play length to get added to history (90%?).
Messes up playlists that use artist, album or track play history (e.g. track last played; artist plays; etc).
Is there an API to get the “correct”, or consolidated, information?
This is an example.with an audio, it can be reproduced with video as well.
As mentioned, this is intended. The idea is that if a user is marking things as played, it’s trying to catch up that information to something so adding it to the play history would mess up the played statistics. I’m not aware of a work around other than actually playing the file.
I agree with both points. The change was intentional, and it messes up the played statistics.
Plex automatically marks an audio track as played without adding it to the history (see example above). Creating incorrect play statistics.
In the Plex Media Server UI (web), a user can mark a track as played without updating the history, as intended. A played track can be marked as unplayed without updating the history, so all plays remain in View Play History. Both actions create incorrect statistics for audio tracks.
There are no options to mark a track as played or unplayed in PlexAmp or the Plex App, where access to audio tracks has been removed.
Audio tracks already have different UIs, functionality, and use cases from Movies or Shows. There was precedent to make the implementation consistent. The current data inconsistency impacts playlists created by users as well as Plex’s shuffle, Plex Mix, and Super Sonic features.
Keep in mind that the statistics are independent from the history. Even thought things don’t show up in the history, they are still tracked so it shouldn’t affect criteria used for playlists and other related lists. Have you seen an actual issue where your playlists are not populating properly?
Where are these statistics available in the Plex UI? Is there an API that returns these statistics?
Issues? Yes. Playlists that use last time played or number of times played for artist, album, or title do not populate properly. From the example above, the track Echoes will not appear on a playlist that looks for tracks played more that 3 times. Even though Plex data indicates that it has been played 4 times.
