Would love to have a play count for every track. Extremely useful to avoid overplaying a track and playing tracks that should get more attention. You get the idea. Also useful but a nice to have is a “Release Date” field.
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There’s a request section in the forum , with a form you fill out for your idea - if other members want it they can use one of their ten forum votes on the idea
It’s quite a polorising option. On one hand, some DJs will use it really well, and in true DJ fashion, to look for those tracks which have, so far never been played by them, and has a zero play count … searching and listening (that long forgotten (p)art of DJing… since there’s more to it than just finding a track which has matching bpm and key) to those tracks and possibly finding some absolute gems to play out, that few other DJs will have unearthed.
The lazy DJ of course, will stand there at their gig, be flummoxed as to what to play next and just search for their most played (out) tracks and keep picking one of the same old safety songs again and again and again, lifting those play counts even further.
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I think play count might already be an open request if you search that part of the forum too.
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Play count is something that i really enjoyed with Traktor Pro, if there are quite a few variations on this request with one of them being this one.
It’s a great request in my book, pity I’ve used up all my votes on other goodies 
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As do I in Serato… especially when I have zero knowledge of track names in folders like deep house etc, having a play count gives me visibility of favourites and ones I need to try out.
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As many have already mentioned, having a play count can be incredibly useful. In Traktor, the combination of play counts, star ratings, and release dates provided crucial information for creating more precise and enjoyable sets.
I hope we can have this feature soon.
And can be incredibly bad for making stale sets, comprising of the DJs most overplayed tracks, gig after gig after gig, enter the realm of DJ/MC SameSame.
If such a feature is added to Engine DJ then it needs to the option of viewing the play count from zero plays upwards so DJs can see all those tracks they’ve missed out on playing so far:
That’s exactly how is use it in Serato, to see what im not playing as much in my playlists.
That’s the perfect use for it
Play count is already an available column in Engine DJ desktop. To select the column to display, right-click a column and then select Play Count. It’s currently not visible in the OS though.
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Yes, I hope they bring this feature to OS. It would be really helpful for a lot of people
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That’s exactly why … to see which tracks I missed out on, and not overplay tracks with a higher play count. So, bad? No.
Not exactly, only in History.
Very good feature, i used the play counter on my DJ Software (Ultramixer) and missed it at Engine OS.
Please put the Play Counter to Engine OS at next Update😉
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As I am now 8 years in with this platform, I see the option, but it’s greyed out. I am going through and finding songs I know I haven’t even played once in 6+ years, and I’d like to “remove them from the collection.” It would be nice to be able to sort the collection to eliminate (in one way or another) tracks that are hardly played.
i recently bought the prime 4+ and come from Traktor dj pro. The song release and play count are really a miss for me, and are making me consider sending them back and look for other hardware.
i use the play count to help me inspire song to pick at similar events. And the release year of an song is a must when i am playing theme parties like 00’s or 70/80’s parties. Can’t believe this is not in the software. (yes years column is in the desktop software but not in the standalone. and play count only exists in history, which at most you can see per year. I would like to know play count of the complete collection over complete usage periode.
Then send them back.
Features are added to the hardware, firmware, and software more frequently than any other DJ equipment -no-one else comes close. InMusic really do listen to their customers and act on that far more than any other brand.
However, there are hundreds and hundreds of user requests on this forum for new features…
Almost all of those requests laughingly mention that their request simply must be so easy to do… almost all of the requests mention that their request is far more important than anyone else’s request. Almost all of those requests claim that by adding their request Denon DJ will take over the world. Some of those requests express in a flabbergasted exclamation that it’s 2025, how could this “critical” feature, which features on every other product in the world, be it electric tin opener or space shuttle, is not already on the gear.
Inmusic will, no doubt add some of those hundreds of user requests, but it won’t be all of them, and there’s no timetable for which feature might get added or when
I agree. The Engine DJ software is what’s lacking what I want most but to give up on their, IMO, superior hardware because of it is short sighted.
There’s an old saying…. Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.