Constant database updates and disk writes

[cleoold]

There is no config for disabling playback progress tracking.  This is used for scrobbling, which some clients use but not all.

An example from Feishin (desktop music player).



The same endpoint you are blocking would also affect video progress tracking.  If you stopped half way through a video it would not appear in "Continue watching".

I noticed that blocking Sessions/Playing/Progress endpoint alone does not change the "scrobbling" or transcoding behaviour - and video playback can still be continued from where it is closed - except when you abruptly close the browser so Sessions/Playing/Stopped cannot get to the server to update status, but that'll be the same with Sessions/Playing/Progress too.

Is there another use case for this call? And btw this seems like a good use case for an in-memory data store.