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Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio
No way to report things like watching movies, listening to audio...for instance:
Sometimes I will watch a movie on my computer. Currently it says I have spent 20 seconds in windows media player. The movie was 2 hours.
Sometimes I will listen to audio lectures online such as from the MIT website. It doesn't report but a couple of seconds here.
I know this is due to the program reporting that I am inactive so that it doesn't record time I may spend away from the computer, however is there not a way to have it record time regardless in case I want to capture the time that I spend doing these things also?
Sometimes I will watch a movie on my computer. Currently it says I have spent 20 seconds in windows media player. The movie was 2 hours.
Sometimes I will listen to audio lectures online such as from the MIT website. It doesn't report but a couple of seconds here.
I know this is due to the program reporting that I am inactive so that it doesn't record time I may spend away from the computer, however is there not a way to have it record time regardless in case I want to capture the time that I spend doing these things also?
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Inappropriate?There have been a couple of suggestions and ideas on handling situations like this.
When we address how to capture "off-line" time (meetings, phone calls, etc), we would like to have a mechanism for capturing video and audio activities, which tend to be much more passive from the computer's perspective.
It's not super high on the priority list at the moment, so it may take a month or two before you see this - but we will get there!
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Inappropriate?same problem here... using VLC ( videolan.org )
for the developers.. you might at least add an event that checks if the application ( media player / vlc / winamp / itunes ) has focus and if it does add it as tracked time running that specific application.
This seems a quick fix since the RescueTime already knows about application focus.
Also adding a "Media Applications" tab to the properties window would help, by giving the user some control over this
ex: " media applications -> add vlc / media player idle time as tracked time"
Micky
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Inappropriate?This problem is absolutely killing the validity of my stats, since my Mac accurately records movie watching time, the pc doesn't. A simple fix is to allow the user to change the time until logging stops (in general or even better for specific applications). This way, before watching a movie, I can change this parameter to the appropriate length of the movie (or off all together). -
Inappropriate?My first day using RescueTime, I watched a bunch of work training videos in Windows Media Player. At the end of the day I had maybe 5 min worth of time logged, and I thought the app was broken! Now I understand what was really happening.
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