Playlist Generator Pro : use the Last Played tag when do not update playcount and last played option is checked

[Altec]

Hi Dmitry,

In some of my studios (particularly for certain web radio stations), I have checked the ‘do not update playcount and last played’ option. This reduces the amount of work required by the hard drive to update my .rbdata files. It also allows me to have several studios on the same database without the last played tag causing confusion between studios.

I was wondering where the ‘use the last played tag’ option gets its information from? Perhaps from the tracks.db file ?
If I have disabled the last played count, is this option useful, or is it pointless?

Thank you in advance

 

[djsoft]

I was wondering where the ‘use the last played tag’ option gets its information from? Perhaps from the tracks.db file ?
If I have disabled the last played count, is this option useful, or is it pointless?

If you have disabled the playcount update tag, it also prevents writing the last played tag as well, so any features that rely on this tag, will not work as intended.

This reduces the amount of work required by the hard drive to update my .rbdata files.

The amount of the data written is so low, it will take a millennia to wear out even the cheapest SSD drive.