Hi together.

I wrote a perl script some time ago that synchronizes my local MP3 Library with meta information stored in a MySQL Database to my Empeg using emptool.
This script also saves some tags (mainly LastPlayed, SkippedCount and PlayCount) reported by emptool into my database for further use.

After a harddisk upgrade last weekend (replaced the drive), I synchronized my MP3 files back which worked without problems.

But then, I wanted to set these tags (LastPlayed, SkippedCount and PlayCount) back to the values I saved before, but that didn't work. The values stay the same.
I tried it manually with emptool to make sure it's not the fault of my tool:

/All my Discs/Roxette - Stars> lookup 99e0

2405 99e0 I\ Was\ So\ Lucky\ (Tits\ &\ Ass\ demo):

type = tune

length = 4057966

title = I Was So Lucky (Tits & Ass demo)

PlayCount = 0

SkippedCount = 0

LastPlayed = 0

artist = Roxette

comment = 2735

source = Stars

year = 1999

codec = mp3

bitrate = fs128

offset = 0

samplerate = 44100

duration = 253622

tracknr = 3

mp3db_trackid = 2735

So, all three values are zero. So I set it and did a sync:

/All my Discs/Roxette - Stars> set LastPlayed=1014324244 99e0

2402 Set LastPlayed=1014324244 for:

/All my Discs/Roxette - Stars/I Was So Lucky (Tits & Ass demo)

/All my Discs/Roxette - Stars> set PlayCount=2 99e0

2402 Set PlayCount=2 for:

/All my Discs/Roxette - Stars/I Was So Lucky (Tits & Ass demo)

/All my Discs/Roxette - Stars> sync

The sync reported no errors and after the restart i checked the values again and they were still zero:

2405 99e0 I\ Was\ So\ Lucky\ (Tits\ &\ Ass\ demo):

type = tune

length = 4057966

title = I Was So Lucky (Tits & Ass demo)

PlayCount = 0

SkippedCount = 0

LastPlayed = 0

artist = Roxette

In the lookup listing of another post (Re: "Least Recently Played" is definitely HOSED in) i saw other fields like play_count and a comment that LastPlayed is Bogus. I don't get such lowercase versions of these tags reported by emptool.

I was unable to find more information about the differences between this tags (mixed case and lower case ones).
Does anyone have more information about this tags? How can I set these tags using emptool?

Thanks a lot.

Roli

Does anyone have more information about this tags?

Those tags (Marked, PlayCount, LastPlayed, SkipCount) are special, in that they live in a read-write disc area on the player (the "dynamic data" area), rather than in the *1 files. At about line 980 of Emptool's playerdb.cpp, you can see them being read out of the binary structure...

How can I set these tags using emptool?

...unfortunately, nothing in Emptool seems to be writing them back to the dynamic data area (instances of those tags in the *1 files are ignored). This is a bug in Emptool.

Incidentally, SkipCount isn't implemented on the player either,

Peter