# times sung-be honest to me!

[randyj]

First, I want to give a big THANK YOU to Dave for his work on bazillions of features in kJams.



Many tracks get the NEXT button pressed before they actually play all the way to the very end of the track. This "slams the door" on the # Sung field. The song doesn't get counted as "sung" unless you let it finish...

Which then makes the field almost useless due to inconsistency.

Thank you for considering discussion on this!

(Note: there are many reasons for ending a track early, which could be discussed ad nauseam in another thread. A very long outro or the long, silent company logo, etc.)

[dave]

how about this:
i'll consider it "sung" if the "time marker" is after 50% of the song when you hit next?? would that cut your mustard? very easy fix.

-dave

[randyj]

glad to hear it's an easy feature to add. THANKS!

Often it's because I'm comparing 2 versions of the same song... maybe 75% rather than 50% ???

[dave]

well, now i'm confused. what playlist are you looking at? currently, the song is marked "sung" if you press next after 60% of the song. so can you tell me what you're doing and in what playlist? cuz it's working just fine as far as i can see. (note: it's broke in the "Singers" list, which i'll fix)

[randyj]

Excellent! I didn't know the feature was there. I was hitting STOP (which doesn't change the number) but NEXT should be suitable for most situations

Cool

[dave]

if you want fine control over when the next song starts, you can set the prefs "pause after each song" and "skip silence at beginning". that way, when you press next, it will pause it with the audio que'd such that the moment you hit un-pause (which is the space bar BTW), the audio will start instantly

-dave