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recent play list

This project is in dire need of a recent play list. The issue is that I need to be able to make notes about a currently or recently played song—notes like:

my rating of the song?
perhaps I want to add it to a play list
Any interesting tidbits

A primary motivation is to mark songs “don’t ever play this again”, which might be implemented by even deleting the song from the library.

Possible Solutions:

Use the Log Table

The log table has the essential information – artist, cd, and track. The problem is that the log is updated only once an hour. I’m long gone by the time a song gets posted.

I guess I could simply up the refresh time on the log table.

I’ll look into this.

On the positive side, this could be easily implemented.

On the minus side, this 1) doesn’t include internet radio, which is a significant amount of my listening, and 2) could put a big load on the system.

Poll the Audiotron for Activity

This could be done at regular, small intervals.

On the positive side, this would nicely indicate both mp3 and internet radio activity.

On the minus side, 1) it would only track audiotron activity and 2) it’s probably a little more difficult to implement, since I’ve already done a lot of log analysis work and would have to add schema for internet radio stuff.

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