VLC Song Tracker

VLC Extensions

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/Reiuiji/VLCAddons

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Description:

VLC Song Tracker is a extension that will help keep track of which songs were played in VLC.

The information of each song will be saved to a CSV ("Comma Separated Values") file with the following data. The date and time in which the song was played as well as the song information including Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Comments, and the location in which it was played at. The location can be a url for internet radio or the file where it was played from. The CSV will will be able to be parsed by most applications. One example of parsing is a spreadsheet application (LibreOffice Calc).

Installation Instructions:
Place this file in the corresponding folder(Create the folder if it does not exist) and restart VLC or reload plugin extensions.
To enable VLC Song Tracker click on View -> "VLC Song Tracker" under the menu bar.

Linux:
Current User: ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
All Users: /usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/

Windows:
Current User: %APPDATA%vlcluaextensions
All Users: %ProgramFiles%VideoLANVLCluaextensions

Mac OS X:
Current User: /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/
All Users: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/

Song List Location
The SongList.csv will be saved in the vlc user director which can be found in the following places
Linux: ~/.local/share/vlc/SongList.csv
Windows: %APPDATA%vlcSongList.csv
Mac OS X: /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/SongList.csv
Last changelog:

0.1.5 3 years ago

Added Now Playing Meta tag (suggested by dvxyz).
Recommend creating new Songfile(move/rename) to keep new naming convention consistent.

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unknow0059

8 months ago

This doesn't work properly with the Media Library, which I use constantly.
I have to manually play a song in the ML for it to be recorded in the CSV file.
This does not happen if I make a Playlist. However, the ML is just a playlist in VLCs eyes, since it's a xspf file, so it should work.

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unknow0059

8 months ago

Also, I have to activate it every time I open VLC. That's terrifically inconvenient - it trivializes the extension because 90% of the time I'll forget to activate it because it's a passive feature, not an active one.

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philrj

2 years ago

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lcluster

3 years ago

Thank you for writing this. This is the first vlc extension I have looked at and I am not a lua coder - I did notice that whatever is triggering the writing out of a csv row can happen many times for the same media item playing - fast forwarding etc.. all trigger a write. I made a slight change to the code to suit my needs that I added a couple of global variables LocationNow "" and LocationLast "" so I can write out 1 row per media item. My code is probably pretty bad but now I get 1 row per item played. I certainly could not have gotten this to work without all of the work you did on this. Thanks again. It is perfect for my needs.

-- uri information
local uri = item:uri()

LocationNow = uri

local info = date .. CSV_FS .. time .. CSV_FS .. title .. CSV_FS .. artist .. CSV_FS .. album .. CSV_FS .. genre .. CSV_FS .. description .. CSV_FS .. uri

if LocationLast ~= LocationNow then
write_file(info)
LocationLast = LocationNow
end

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Reiuiji

3 years ago

Thank you for the comment. I am thrilled that my code was able to help you out. Also that is a great idea for your changes to eliminate duplicate songs from playing. One thing I would recommend is using the value from "title" instead of "uri". The reason is that "uri" usually does not change on a radio station so if you want to only write new songs you should compare the title of the songs if they are unique unless use a combination of title, artist, album, etc. Hope that will help.

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randomusernameover9000

3 years ago

Hey, Thanks for this

Was my first time using a plugin with VLC and just wanted to say that you might want to add that you have to do the following as well as I thought it wasn't working at first...

also the lua and the extensions folder within lua didn't exist for me but just created them.

But yea thanks none the less.
To use this extension, open VLC Player and go to View Menu in Menu Bar and select 'Info Crawler'

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randomusernameover9000

3 years ago

ahh this grr... To use this extension, open VLC Player and go to View Menu in Menu Bar and select 'Info Crawler'

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Reiuiji

3 years ago

Thank you for the reply, feedback is much appreciated.

Also 'Info Crawler'? Do you mean 'VLC Song Tracker' or ment to comment on the Info Crawler page?

https://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/Info+Crawler?content=175648

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0.1.5 3 years ago

Added Now Playing Meta tag (suggested by dvxyz).
Recommend creating new Songfile(move/rename) to keep new naming convention consistent.

0.1.4 3 years ago

Added duplication check to prevent writing same song in a row. Suggested by lcluster

4 years ago

0.1.3
Bug fix for description tag

0.1.2
Added OS Detection to check if a specific OS and change the file location based on the OS.
Cleaned up Debug Output

0.1.1
Bug Fix for description tag

0.1.0
Initial Release

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