How to find individual play dates for songs

[retta283]

In iTunes there is the ability to see the amount of times you have played a song and the last time you played it. Is it possible to see the time that the song was played each time (30 times for example)

 

[LinusR]

Good question, I've been wondering this myself! Don't know the answer, but I believe the file's metadata don't contain that piece of information... and the library file would blow up massively if it did log that.

 

[retta283]

So I saved some of my iTunes playlists as XML files and searched through them. It's a bit hard to read, but there are a ton of different dates. Due to lack of clarity I don't know if these are play dates or not...

 

[LinusR]

So I saved some of my iTunes playlists as XML files and searched through them. It's a bit hard to read, but there are a ton of different dates. Due to lack of clarity I don't know if these are play dates or not...

Just did the same with one of my playlists but couldn't find many dates... what's the key for the dates you found? Then I can look or them specifically in my file.

 

[retta283]

Just did the same with one of my playlists but couldn't find many dates... what's the key for the dates you found? Then I can look or them specifically in my file.

I just used Find and looked up 2018... The formatting of the XML file is strange so that's the best way I've found