I am looking for a way to get total plays for artists in my library. Is there anyway I can automate something that will count all of the %play_counter% tags and add it to a %total_plays% tag. or is that not possible?

If not, is there any program that might be able to do this for me in order to export it?

Thanks!

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

In my head the way to do this externally would be to make something that searches the plays data file, search for each instance of an artist, find the number associated with it, then add it to a total. But to create a tag for each track that contains the total plays would be quite inefficient I think, because it is not a statistic specific to the track. You could export it as an external file, or if does as a foo_artistplays.dll (for example) it could be a panel that displays said statistic based on what I said before.

Nice, I get what you're saying

Have to be a component that counts and adds up each meta data in the tracks.

Just wish I was smart enough to create that haha