I was bored today, so I took a gamble on 3.1.1 on my 2nd gen Touch

Question

So far so good. less than 5 minutes to download the update, 30 minutes to back up Touch, 8 minutes or less to update, and so far all is ok, even wifi. this makes the first time I've installed an upgrade since last year that I wasn't bitten by the same issues as most others,such as last year's "turn on/turn off/turn on" wifi in order to get it to connect issue. IF nothing strange happens in the next couple of days, I give it a thumbs up. However, I still have my wife's Touch to update....
PS: cold boot now takes the 31 seconds (for 2nd gens like mine) reported elsewhere. prior cold boot time was 22 seconds. Guess I'll try not to shut it off often.

Answer 1

I said: One of the more common bugs, both in iphones and touches, seems to be that smart playlists (the kind that compile tracks based on rules you set, like "most played" or "recently added") are not syncing correctly. Can you create a smart playlist (file > new smart playlist) based on these criteria, sync it, then see if the playlist on your ipod matches the playlist on itunes?
'Match the following rule': Media Kind is Music
Limit to "25" items selected by "most often played"
Leave 'match only checked items' unchecked
Check 'Live Updating'
Regardless of whether or not you're experiencing the ipod touch bug, you should see a playlist in itunes that works correctly. You'll get a list of 25 items that have the 25 highest play counts in your library. You can verify the list by comparing it to viewing the 25 first tracks in your library if you sort by play count.
After you sync this playlist with a properly functioning ipod touch, you should see a similar list on your touch (it might not be identical if you don't have all of your highest rated tracks in itunes synced to your touch). With the bug, and I've seen it on both touches that I've upgraded, you'll see a list of seemingly random tracks. Some of the tracks coming up on mine have zero plays, and the list isn't even sorting those random tracks in play count order.
As folks like to mention, everyone on here has problems with their stuff, so I haven't heard anyone say that this feature still works properly for them after the 3.1.1 upgrade. Let me know if you're an exception.