Forum: Wishes and new features

2 search_playlists

3 info panel

I'd like to have a right click "mark unplayed" or similar
I'd like to be able to select my History playlists and "mark unplayed".

This allows me to use my filter folders for "unplayed recent" to work
Right now I'm editing the database XML directly 🙈

In the info panel you can also click the last played or playcount column to do a search through your history and playlists of the selected song.

In the info panel you can also click the last played or playcount column to do a search through your history and playlists of the selected song.

2 is what is possible as I mentioned.

But what date should the "unplayed" be set to then? and what date you put if you edit xml?
You can do that, but would be a bit of an arbitrary date perhaps, but i guess you already do

Simply open the history playlist in question, CTRL+A to select all songs, and right-click the selection and open Tag editor. Set a date.. . faster than xml editing at least..


Or map a custom button in the skin with the action: setting 'writeHistory'
That might be easier to see and remember :)

If I understand correctly you ask for a "mark as unplayed" such as a "mark as unreaded" in mail box

there is simple way :

filter : Days since First Seen < 30 and Already Played = 1
select all and rightclick --> Mark as unplayed

but the hard reset (which is probably unusefull) does not work as expected:
block edit
set dates to 1900/01/01
set play count to 0
write tags

you are done!

by default there is no date at all

doing this by script is not possible
but badly none of the following are working :
(batch) edit tag first played with nothing (unless you put things like 1900/..) empty default to do not change
(batch) edit tag last played with nothing (unless you put things like 1900/..) empty default to do not change
(batch) edit tag play count is working but does not affect state (can be already played 0 or -12 times on last friday)
but a song readed 0 with no 1st play date and no last played date is still already played
browsed_song "Already Played Play" "No"
browsed_song "Already Played Play" false
browsed_song "First Play" ""
browsed_song "Last Play" ""
browsed_song "Play Count" 0
browsed_song "Firsplay" ""
browsed_song "LastPlay" ""
browsed_song "PlayCount" 0

Hello from Germany

I love VDJ, because it has so many functions with macros and different cue types and so on. The last and only single reason, why i cannot change from Rekordbox to Virtual DJ is: Virtual DJ has no "My Tags" and no instant filters to sort an existing playlist with them custom tags.

So i want to propose this as a feature request.

Sorting on Rekordbox: Here is the custom tag list, if i mark a song on the browser, i can see immediateley what tags are checked and I can check or uncheck some of them tags very quickly with a mouse click (better would be with midi). It is also possible with multiple marked songs to check them all together:


Searching at Rekordbox: I can search quickly by enabling one or more tags at the playlist filter above the list:


So i can quickly seach all songs with the tags "80ies" AND "90ies", with the content ("Italo" OR "Italo Disco") AND for the situation ("wedding" OR "club") without need to use my keyboard. This is a very flexible way to find song that match different criteria. No playlist and no predefined filter list can archieve this.

The only way that ive found on VDJ is:

Sorting on VDJ: I need to open the Tag Editor and i need to type in all matching custom tags into the comment field by keyboard. Its not possible to edit multiple songs, because it would overwrite existing custom tags at the comment field, if some of them songs have some custom tags already.

Searching on VDJ: I need to add a filter list on the left side, i need to change the scope to "database" and i need type in the custom tags into the filter field.
You see, this is impossible during a gig.

Its not a big problem if the DJ knows every song of his database and if he is specialized to one genre as example a Hip Hop DJ.
But a wedding DJ needs to have multiple genres at the database and he will not do a wedding every weekend. So he needs to remember a huge amount of songs and over a longer period of off-time. And he needs to change his sort and filter criteria immediateley if the guests are requesting different things.