ITunes add to Play Count

How do I add plays to the play count for an audiobook I have in my library. I can only see menu options to reset the play count to zero, not to set it to "1".

There are two unrelated problems that cause this.
1. The "Crossfade" setting in iTunes. Right now it's buggy, so if you have that turned on, iTunes 11 won't update your play counts or "last played" date, when you play the music on the mac.
2. iOS 6, for some people, doesn't update the "last played" date when you play music on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and are subscribed to iTunes Match. If you look carefully, you'll actually see that the count does update (it may take a day or two to sync), it's just the date that doesn't change.
There's no cure for either one, you just have to wait for Apple to fix the problem. But with the first one, you can at least turn off the crossfade setting.

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When does itunes add a "play count"

ive been using itunes for about a year now, and i am wondering how the play count feature works. i like to use the smart playlists for most played songs. when exactly does itunes add another play count to the column? i know with lastfm you can set it to 50% of the song, and i really like that because sometimes i listen to a song but want to change it before it ends, but i would also like it to show up as played.

I don't know if this has to do with the most recent iTunes update (8.2) but I have noticed that now if a song has played into the final ten seconds, the play count goes up, even if you pause, or stop the song, or even if you start a song and click into the final ten seconds! I'm not a fan of this, I prefer the 100% of a song considered a play count. Anybody know if there's a way to change this setting?

Syncing iPod to a new installation of iTunes while retaining Play Count

I have an iPod nano that I use in my baby's nursery for her lullaby music. I thought it would be cool to use the Audioscrobbler program from www.last.fm to track her "listening habits" from this very early age and be able to see years down the road what she has listened to over time.
The thing is, I originally synced the iPod with mp3 files from my installation of iTunes. I also have my own Last.fm profile that already syncs with iTunes files played on this profile. I realized that if I sync her Nano with this same instance of iTunes, it will combine all of her Play Counts with my own history. I don't want to confuse the Last.fm "scrobbler" system tray program with which play counts should be scrobbled.
I know I could create another profile for her on this same computer, but I thought it might be even easier to just sync it with iTunes on my laptop (which doesn't have any iPods associated with it yet.) Either way, it will not be the exact same installation of iTunes that the Nano was originally synced with. HOWEVER, my mp3 files are on a shared network-attached storage hard drive, so all of the iTunes installations (on both the desktop and laptop) would be reading the exact same files.
SO - the jist of my questions is this:
1.) If my iTunes library reads from M:/My Music/ (NAS drive), will the Nano see a different installation of iTunes as the same library?
2.) If I sync her Nano with a different installation of iTunes, will it record the Play Counts of what she has already listened to? * This is my most important question. I don't care if it erases the files on the Nano, because I will just sync them again. I just want to make sure it records in iTunes the current Play Count stored on her Nano right now, so I can sync it with her Last.fm profile.
Thanks in advance! I asked about this on the Last.fm forums, and they advised me to ask over here instead since it has more to do with iTunes and syncing.
- Holly

Katrina, Thanks for the link.
Ahhh... yes, current playcounts ARE kind of important. I've been holding out on syncing it since March because I was trying to figure this out and get information on the best way to do it. That's 7+/- hours of music per night X 4 months! Is there a way to read what the playcounts currently are on the iPod itself right now? If all else fails, I could manually adjust them in the empty XML file, right?
I think if I can get the iTunes on my laptop to read and record the playcounts from the iPod, then I can sync the Last.fm process to read it later. I can use their new "import history" feature to import the playcounts. I just need to make sure that I can get iTunes to record them instead of wiping the iPod.
I've read up on manually managing the iPod... would that help any?
Since my music files are on a shared network drive, can I copy either of those two metadata files (iTunes Music Library.xml and/or iTunes Library.itl) from my desktop to my laptop and then hand modify the XML code to change all playcounts to zero and then sync the iPod? Will that fake the laptop out to believe it was the original computer that the iPod was first synced with?
And no on the operating systems My desktop is Vista Home Premium and the laptop is XP Home.
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!! :-D

ITunes deleted my play counts after update. How do I get them back?, iTunes deleted my play counts after update. How do I get them back?

Hi yesterday I updated iTunes to the most recent version. After I had restarted my computer all my play counts had gone. Can I get them back?

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Itunes 11 change play counts numbers

Is there any way to change play counts or merge two songs play counts when you find out you have the same song twice in your librairie? By the way I subscribed to iTunes match... if this may change something...

I don't know any way to merge play counts automatically, but you can increase the play count of a song pretty easily. Play it, jump to the last few seconds of the song, then let it end. This will update your play count. Repeat as many times as necessary until the count equals the total number of plays between the two copies. Then delete one of the copies. A little laborious, but it'll get the job done.

ITunes not syncing play counts from iOS devices

I realize this is a small thing to some people, but my music-listening abnd playlisting habits are fairly OCD and are depenedent on play count tallies....
Long story short, I updated my iTunes software the other day to 10.5.3. Now, when I plug my iPad (1) and iPhone(4s) in to the iMac to sync, the playcounts and last played data does not appear to by syncing. Is anyone else having this problem?
I actually spoke to someone at applecare, and they suggested selecting "homesharing updates playcount" in preferences, which I did, but that does not appear to affect anything when I amsyncing directly from the iOS devices. I have not started using itunes match yet, partially because of concerns about play counts, so I am still syncing the old-fashioned way, with a cord.
Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Why has the new iTunes reset the play counts on all my purchased music?

I installed iTunes 11 and discovered that it had reset the play counts on all my iTunes-Store-purchased music. What gives? Here's another thing, perhaps for a separate question here on the forum: play counts and "last played" do not update after a song is played unless I had specifically double-clicked it. Weird.

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How can I get iTunes to update play counts and file additions between users on the same computer?

I have placed my iTunes library in /Users/Shared/iTunes along with iTunes Music Library.XML
When I open iTunes, all the music is displayed correctly with playcounts etc...
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How can I get iTunes to auto-update between users?
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I understand how to do that, I was looking to share all fodlers or a bunch of folders. I found out how to do it.
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ITunes 9 - 'last played' and 'play count' still do not sync on manual

Tonight I upgraded to iTunes 9 and my iPod Touch to v3.1.1 but the 'improved' sync doesn't seem to have improved to what I need.
Alright, basically I have a lot of rare songs and live recordings in my library. My iPod Touch is only 16gb and my music collection is just over 99gb counting all my audiobooks. From what I can tell iTunes 9 will let me sync my music library with only select artists, but even this doesn't allow for instances where I only want four or five songs out of an artist's forty or fifty songs.
The only way to put what I want on my iPod is to set it to Manually Manage my Music and Videos. That's okay with me BUT iTunes won't sync the 'last played' and 'play count' of songs that are on my iPod and in my iTunes library.
Can someone help me solve this issue? I want to be able to manually manage my music and videos AND have iTunes sync the play count and last played for the songs I listen to.

If you manage the music on your iPod Touch manually the playcount and last played data does not get updated in iTunes. It works that way for all iPod models.
To solve this problem you can do the following:
- Create a playlist in which you add all the songs you want to add to your iPod Touch
- Set your iPod to sync music automatically. On the music tab configure the iPod Touch to only sync the previously created playlist.
- Sync your iPod Touch.
Now you can manage the content of your iPod Touch by managing the contents of the playlist and then sync. And most importantly it will update your playcount and last played data.
Hope this helps,
Marc

IPhone loses play counts when syncing with iTunes

I would like to repeat the question from this thread, which has mistakenly been marked "answered".
When syncing with iTunes, not all play counts are transferred into iTunes. When I turn the iPhone off, it even forgets the complete list of played songs (it is even deleted from iTunes itself).

I have similar problem. Played podcasts becomes UNPLAYED after synch with iTune.

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Running a MacBook Pro with OSX Lion 10.7.2 and iTunes 10.5 (141).
Since upgrading my iPhone 4 to iOS5 - I have noticed that when syncing my phone in iTunes (wired), my 'play counts' do not update for recently played songs, and any songs played on my iPhone do not appear in the 'Recently Played' playlist in iTunes.
I mange my music manually on my iPhone, so had a go at removing all the music from it, then copying over just one album. Played the first track of that album on my iPhone which had been played 10 times. Synced iPhone, and still says 10 plays in the play count on iTunes.
Have checked the 'Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts' in the 'Sharing Preferences' in iTunes, but this has no effect.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Is it a bug?
Am I missing something glaringly obvious?

Dalmanac, I hear you. I record all of my plays to a database, and iOS5 has broken that for me. Quite frustrating.
I've done a bunch of testing tonight, a bit more thoroughly than I did on the weekend. There are two scenarios where I appear to be able to get the phone to sync plays back the the library.
Play a song from the iPhone through iTunes:
1. Connect iPhone.
2. Play song through iTunes, but from iPhone.
2.1 iTunes briefly says "updating files on phone" or something such
2.2 iPhone count increases (viewable in iTunes)
3. Click on Music Library -> play count has not updated
4. Sync iPhone -> play count in Music Library updates
This implies to me that syncing from the iPhone on iOS5 CAN work. The functionality is there, just broken.
Repeating those steps, but playing the song on the phone, not iTunes sees the iPhone count update, but not Music Library.
Starting a fresh library (yeah, I know, I don't want to do that either) and leaving the phone in Automatic mode appears to sync plays from the iPhone when played from the iPhone. I just tested with one track, but it seems to work without issue.
Starting a fresh library and using Manually Manage Music does not work, or at least I can't get it to. It behaves the same as keeping the existing library in manual mode. iPhone count updates, library count doesn't.
The last thing I want to do is start a new library and turn off Manually Manage Music. For the time being I've changed my database import from reading the music library XML to exporting a playlist from the phone of the day's plays (including play date and count) and importing from that. At least for a bit to see if this gets syncing issue fixed - or if I can find the magic combination of making it work again with my existing music library in manual mode.
If anyone learns anything further about how to get it working or has any further diagnosis please post.

ITunes 11 - Songs less than 10 seconds long - Play count doesn't increase

The title pretty much sums up my problem. Installed iTunes 11 a couple of days ago and have noticed that any track less than 10 seconds long (of which I have quite a few) will play okay in iTunes but the play count doesn't increase when the track finishes. Anything 10 seconds or above increments fine.
However, if the same short tracks are played on the iPod then it is synced, the play count goes up no problems.
Is this a "feature" of version 11 or a glitch does anyone know?

I recently started having the same identical problem when playing iTunes on my computer (WinXP). Songs play and move between computer and iPod without problems. Songs under 10 seconds are noticably affected. The number of plays and last date played do not increment. Haven't seen longer songs affected but really haven't been watching until now. In one case increased the song length from 10 to 12 seconds. It now works. But songs that did work that are under 10 seconds, now don't. Currently using v 11.0.2.06. Nothing new installed on computer.

My iPod Shuffle 4th Generation refuses to sync up the PC plays count

As soon as a new podcast episode arrives in my Podcasts iTunes library, it shows up in that library with a plays count = 0. When I start up iTunes and update the podcasts, I then copy all new (unplayed) podcasts to a Playlist named "1-UnheardPodcasts", then mark all unplayed podcasts in that playlist as Played, thereby setting the play count on those podcast episodes to 1. I then copy a bunch of podcasts to my iPod shuffle 4th gen and wander off cackling into the night to listen to those podcasts. In the fullness of time, I return to my PC, fire up iTunes, plug in my shuffle and see that the shuffle shows the plays count (on the episodes I have listened to) as 2. I then sync the iPod to iTunes but the plays count in my "1-UnheardPodcasts" playlist and in the podcasts library both stubbornly remain set to 1. I then have to manually pretend to listen to the podcasts in iTunes again, fast forward to the end of each podcast, let it finish, then the plays counts everywhere are set to 2. I can then delete the plays count 2 episodes from my "1-UnheardPodcasts" playlist and all is right with the world and I'm ready for new episodes to randomly appear in my podcasts library.
My older first generation shuffles (both of which died and were replaced by the 4th gen shuffle recently) did not have this problem. Sync from those would always update the plays count on the iTunes application on my PC to match what it showed for the plays count on the shuffle.
What's up with that? Is there any way to fix this? It happens whether or not I completely fill up the shuffle.
I also have problems with getting back to where I left off if I stop playing a podcast by pressing the centre button on the iPod face and then try to resume play a few minutes later. If I shut down the shuffle and restart it, it seems to always resume play from where it left off.
I've got everything turned on in the iPod settings menu except the thing about reserving disk space for Windows files.
I've got what claims to be the latest version (11.0.4) of iTunes running under Windows 7 (64 bit) on a BIOSTAR MB with an AMD phenom II X4 820 2.8 GHz quad core processor with 8 GB of RAM and at least 50 GB of free disk space.
When I click on check for updates with the iPod attached on the iPod settings window, it comes back with "you have the latest version"

If you are loading the shuffle manually, by dragging podcast episodes to the shuffle in iTunes, that is probably why the playcount does not update in your iTunes library, after playing the podcast episode on the shuffle (and then connecting the shuffle).
When you use the manual method to load the shuffle, the iTunes library on the computer and the library on the shuffle are separate. iTunes does not keep the two libraries "in sync." Therefore, data such as playcount are not synced back to the computer when you connect the shuffle.
If you set up automatic syncing using the shuffle's Podcasts screen in iTunes, iTunes keeps your iTunes library in sync with the shuffle's library (based on how you set up the shuffle's Podcasts screen). So data, such as playcount, should sync back to the iTunes library. In your case, if you maintain a playlist in iTunes with the unheard podcast episodes you want on the shuffle, you can select that playlist on the shuffle's Podcasts screen in iTunes (where it says Include Episodes from Playlists). iTunes will automatically keep that playlist in sync between your computer and the shuffle.
NOTE: If you are currently NOT using automatic syncing, and you also have music on the iPod, you will also need to set up the shuffle's Music screen in iTunes. When you start using automatic syncing, any content on the shuffle that was loaded manually is replaced.
The 1st and 2nd gen shuffles used a different very simple software design, compared to other iPods. They did not have an automatic syncing mode. You loaded it manually, but it was linked to only one iTunes library at a time. Therefore, although you loaded it manually, iTunes does keep data (such as playcount) in sync. On all other iPods, including the newer shuffles, iTunes only keeps the data in sync if you use automatic syncing.

Play Count / Last Played inconsistencies

I have a smart playlist that simply shows all music that I've never played.
I set this up to simply show music where Plays=0.
I've noticed recently that music I know I've listened to is still in the playlist, looking at the screenshot below you can see that I listened to this album in February but the play count is still zero?
I can get around this by also filtering out music where last played is not in the last 1000 months, but that's a workaround rather than a fix!

littlestar,
The Mimico Kid asked a couple of us on another thread if someone could offer some tips with this issue, so I'm here to try.
With playcounts that iTunes is not able to keep orderly, you may want to reset your entire iTunes library's play counts, or rebuild your iTunes library.
See if this thread is of any help for you:
Play count is screwed up- why?
Something else I just thought of that might do soemthing. Try this:
1 - Right-click "Recently played" in the left panel of iTuens, click on "Edit Smart Playlist".
2 - un-check "Live Updating".
3 - Click "OK".
4 - Play a couple of songs in the iTunes library (all you have to do is double-click a song, and drag the little location-of-the-song selector to the last couple of seconds, and it will count as a played song when it reaches the end).
5 - Close iTunes.
6 - Re-open iTeuns again.
7 - Right-click "Recently played" again, clicking on "Edit smart playlist".
8 - Now re-check "Live updating" again.
9 - Play a couple of songs in iTunes, and close iTuens when this is completed.
10 - Re-open iTunes. Play a song in it.
11 - Now, see "Recently played", just to make sure that it now shows what you played a few moments ago.
See if anything changes with iTunes not keeping your play counts.
Okay, I'm not sure if that was all useless or far-off the possible problem (I know, "Recently played" and "Live updating" may not have much to do with iTunes updating playcounts), but I guess it's a try. You sometimes never know what iTunes will positively respond to with a problem that's somewhat un-charted ground. (I've seen some strange solutions actually work with issues in iTunes).
Good luck,
-Kylene

Play Count Wrong

Reset my play count on iTunes 11.4, after listening to a couple songs, played once each and syncing iPhone to iTunes, play count says those songs have been played nearly 10 times each. Why is iTunes multiplying my play counts and how can I fix this?
Laptop is Windows 7 as well if that has anything to do with anything.

I'm having a similar issue, which has only occurred very recently. When I plug my phone in to sync/back-up, some song plays will be randomly and significantly increased though, bizarrely, not all songs are doing this.
Having had a browse around the internet for a solution, it seems the issue is likely caused by the latest version of iOS (v8.0.2). Really irritating bug, I have to say, for those of us who like to keep accurate listening stats.
I hope iOS 8.0.3 will be out very soon and hopefully address this issue, as neither a system restore on my phone nor reinstalling iTunes has had any effect on this problem.

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