Note that the previous workaround of setting 'play_count_recent' to 1 is no longer working. I haven't figured out any way to get 'Last Played' or 'play count' to sync from the iphone to media monkey database

I just got caught out on this bug again. Any chance of getting it fixed?

Thanks!

Great! ;-)

Happy news: I was able to use DB Browser to force the 'play_count_recent=1' for all the songs on my iphone that had a 'last_played' date. Then I re-synced in MMW5 and all the played# and 'last_played' were correctly updated. (and AnyTrans to move the MediaLibrary.sqlitedb file back and forth). This workaround saved me a lot of lost data towards a playlist I'm working on.

Thanks for all your assistance.

UPDATE item_stats SET play_count_recent = 1 WHERE play_count_user > 0

Actually seeing that MediaLibrary.sqlitedb can potentially get out of sync with iTunesCDB this way (because of cleared 'play_count_recent' value).

I guess I will have to change the mechanism to rather always take the 'play_count_user' value and always use this value also when viewing the tracks in MM5 interface (Devices & Services > iPod > Music list)

Also seeing that MM5 already remembers the inital played# value synced to the device, so I could always use the 'play_count_user' and decrease it by the initial played# value when the track was synced from MM5 > iPod and update both the values after the sync.

i.e.
1) during MM5 > iPod sync use:
played_value_when_track_was_synced_to_iPhone = MM5.track.play_count

2) during iPod > MM5 sync use:
MM5.track.play_count = MM5.track.play_count + (iPod.play_count_user - played_value_when_track_was_synced_to_iPhone)
played_value_when_track_was_synced_to_iPhone = iPod.play_count_user;

Entered as: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=18673

EDIT: As for the current workaround: Yes, bulk increasing the 'play_count_recent' is possible, you can use iMazing app to download the MediaLibrary.sqlite from the iPhone and then open it in SQLite studio and update the 'play_count_recent' by SQL query like:
[code]UPDATE item_stats SET play_count_recent = 1 WHERE play_count_user > 0[/code]

Thanks, that is very helpful. I did cancel an auto-sync, so perhaps the 'play_count_recent' was reset but the other values were undone during the cancel.

Is there any easy way I can increment 'play_count_recent' to force an update of last_played or otherwise get these to update?

Checking it now and MM5 is reading the Played# value from MediaLibrary.sqlitedb file on the iPhone.

Table 'item_stats' and column 'play_count_recent', during sync it increases the value in MM5 by the 'play_count_recent' value.

There is also column 'play_count_user' and this is where probably the "Song stats" takes the values, see:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3mxzyuf65re745/Screenshot%202021-12-14%2021.07.34.png?dl=0

'play_count_recent' is cleared after the Played# is synced with MM5.
So that's explains the difference.

i.e. another app (or another MM instance) could already pick up the 'play_count_recent' value and clear it.

Also: all the songs played have been after the upgrade to MM5 and OS 15.

More info: Syncing the phone to MMW does not update "last played" in the MMW library unless the "played count" is non zero. I played a few songs just now for testing--the "played #" correctly increments and the 'last played' is correctly updated.

However, most songs that have been played (except a couple I just played in testing) show a played # = 0 in MMW. I installed an application on my iphone ("Song Stats")--this application correctly shows the actual played count and last played for all the songs on the iphone.

So Media Monkey is not retrieving the played # from the same location as the iPhone application "Song Stats".
And MMW is apparently not syncing "last played" if it (incorrectly) thinks the 'played #' is 0.

[quote]Note that I can see the correct "Last Played" date when I view the Music list of the Iphone within MMW.[/quote]

If you are seeing them in MMW then I guess that _syncing_ the device does update the playcount/lastplayed/rating in MMW, isn't it?

Is there a pattern to those that do have correct Last Played? Could they have been played before or after iOS 15 or MediaMonkey updates?

MMW 5.0.2. 2526 with Iphone 6s running OS 15. When I sync the phone, "Last Played" is not synced. Actually, a couple played songs have the correct "Last Played", but hundreds of other songs are not updated in MMW.

Note that I can see the correct "Last Played" date when I view the Music list of the Iphone within MMW.

BTW, I notice that most of the played songs on the Iphone show a correct "Last Played" date, but "Played #" = 0. The few songs that updated the played # in MMW do have a positive "Played #".

Syncing Last Played is very important for me--this broke recently upon upgrading the iPhone to OS15...