Getting back my play counts

i have just bought myself a new 27" iMac and have simply added all my old songs from my external into my new itunes, i didn't import any of the playlists as i'm not too bothered about them. However all of my placounts have been reset, i then tried to 'import playlists' using the old .xml file from my old library but it didn't get me my playcounts back.
Is there any way of acquiring these back without having to start my new iTunes library again? Basically i'm looking for the simplest way of doing this short of going back to my old library as my old iBook is very slow and therefore tiring to work with.
Many thanks.

Ratings and playcount are not stored as tags in the music files themselves so adding the files to a new library will not recover these. Note, "iTunes Music Library.xml: This file contains some (but not all) of the same information stored in the iTunes Library file." in Jolly Giant's second link about libraries. I'm not sure how this applies to ratings and playcount.

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It's not exactly what you're looking for, but this script may be useful:
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I just went to restart iTunes to find it's not there. I had to reinstall FF earlier and it removed iTunes as well.
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+iTunes Library (which is labelled as database file).+
This is the ITL file. Windows must not be set to display file extensions,is why you aren't seeing it.
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Greetings everyone
as the title says, ive had to install a new hard drive and i want to transfer my old itunes library onto the new drive, maintaining all playlists/play counts/ratings etc, album artwork if possible. The old hard drive is installed as a slave drive and is completely acessible, but due to the boot files being corrupted i cannot use it as the main drive and therefore operate my old itunes. Also, my ipod no longer contains my music library as itunes synced without my permission and wiped it.
The only thing i have tried is copying all of my old music files from the old drive by selecting 'add folder to library' and then the old drive, then replacing the new itunes library.itl file with the one from my old itunes. This restores all my playlists and playcounts but when i try to play any of the songs it says that the files could not be found, and i dont fancy locating 8500 music files individually!
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i.e you had all your music in the iTunes media folder inside your iTunes folder.
If your iTunes folder is so small compared to the amount of music you have, you must have a different arrangement.
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iTunes can cope with moving around as long as all the music is in the iTunes media folder, not not if it isn't.
Your first step should be to get iTunes working on the old drive. This will involve editing the xml library file so that the drive letter is correct and then rebuilding the library from the xml file.
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Find the iTunes folder on the old drive and copy the two library files somewhere else so you can find them again. That's iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
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Check that iTunes works OK and then use the first method.
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HT201272 When iTunes was upgraded to the lastest (11.0), many of of songs/music/audiobooks were deleted! I tried syncing my phone to my computer to get them back, but many of those were deleted too!   How do I get my purchases back to play them???

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~Remember, I am just giving an educated guess on limited information

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