Feature suggestion: log of listened/played files (quantified self)

[eternalbit]

Having a log of the played books/files would be neat. Simply a CSV style file containing date/time and filename.

[flackbash]

To be honest I doubt that this is a feature many people would use.

Do I understand you correctly: You would like a log entry for every time you start the playback? Probably plus the duration of the playback? So you would get an entry for every time you hit the play (or pause) button...

[eternalbit]

You might be right, that not many people would actually use it.

I like the idea of being able to check what files I've listened to at a certain time.

Maybe there could be some kind of heuristic that determines whether I've actually played back a certain file .. it could check whether I've played more than 30 % of the file and then create the respective entry in the log. Then there would only be one entry for each file in most cases. So it wouldn't be just a raw list of play/pause events.

[Sulter]

You might be right, that not many people would actually use it.

I like the idea of being able to check what files I've listened to at a certain time.

Maybe there could be some kind of heuristic that determines whether I've actually played back a certain file .. it could check whether I've played more than 30 % of the file and then create the respective entry in the log. Then there would only be one entry for each file in most cases. So it wouldn't be just a raw list of play/pause events.

So a database with <file, stats>?

[eternalbit]

So a database with <file, stats>?

I don't understand what's meant by that syntax.

[Self-Perfection]

I'd say universal solution would be broadcasting of playback events. I don't know how this works in android terms, but surely it has something similar to D-Bus. Then user might setup any reaction to playback events, for instance logging to file. Widely known Tasker app might handle that.

[Najrim]

I'd love to have this functionality. The csv could look something like:

playback_start	playback_end	audiobook_title	book_author
unix timestamp	unix timestamp	A book title	Jonh Doe

Or the filename instead of the last two columns, as @eternalbit suggests.

[flackbash]

Ok, implementing this as @Najrim suggested would be quite straight forward. Still, I don't believe there is a high demand for such a feature but if it turns out more people would find this useful, I might implement this.

[bhankas]

+1 for interest in this feature.

[bhankas]

Just one suggestion : File should only be logged if it was played for more than certain duration. Otherwise just checking which file/episode was played last will populate log and the whole purpose will be defeated. I propose 30-60s, considering most audiobook chapters are 10+ minutes.