My playcount, my ratings, and last played are gone

Hi, I'm new to these forums. Anyway, I was following the instructions given to me by the manual here on apple.com and I managed to transfer my songs from my old computer to my new laptop, but it did not transfer my playcount, my ratings, and last played. I'd like them back, can somebody help?

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I'll explain why. As you know, it's extremely difficult to use the iPod---since there's no directory structure, it's hard to find anything. I can sort of get around this by creating playlists for each artist. It's still impossible to see what albums are what without playing something, but at least it's workable. After I listen to something, I like to delete it to make room for more. Again, this is a simple function that iTunes/iPod makes very difficult. My workaround has been to mark the last track I listen to in a playlist with a rating (I find the ratings feature otherwise useless). That way, when I connect to iTunes, I can find which tracks I've listened to and delete them. Now that ratings sometimes disappear, the iPod has gone from almost impossible to use to completely frustrating. What is the solution?

"If nothing is tagged correctly, then you are correct. Otherwise, it's very easy to find any track by Artist, Album, Genre or song name."
If everything is tagged correctly (which is true of 99% of my collection), it's still very difficult to find anything on an iPod, for the reasons I explained above. I'll give you an example. Starting with a perfectly tagged collection of J.S. Bach's complete works, how do I find BWV 972? You would have me go to Artists ->. Then I have to scroll through a few hundred, not to find "Bach, Johann Sebastian", but to find "Johann...". Fine, once there, I have about 1000 "Albums" for my scrolling pleasure. Where is it? On my hard drive, it's in its place between 971 and 973 (exactly where I would want it to play). Not on the iPod. On the iPod, it's in the order that the iPod chooses. Should I look under Harpsichord Concertos or under Concertos for harpsichord? More scrolling. Ahhh---but no amount of scrolling will do any good. Only the first few characters of the title are displayed, and catalog numbers are at the ends. It's one of many "Harpsichord Conce...". The designers didn't even think about wrapping lines---that's how bad it is. No doubt you've noticed by now that 972 can't be found even if you try each one, one-by-one. It's a transcription, so the iPod considers it a different "artist". The situation is the same for pop albums, or any other genre. I want to hear them in chronological order? Impossible! iPod/iTunes can't even read well-formed year tags. It's 2009 and it can't do what a hundred freeware/shareware programs have been doing for years.
The whole system is a bad first draft, and will remain that way, since there's no incentive for Apple to design a workable system. That's not my point though. That's not my question. I've developed a cumbersome work-around that depends on iTunes seeing the ratings I record on the iPod. Now that iTunes has decided to erase these sometimes, intermittently, for no reason, I need to know how to make it not do that. I need to know how to ensure that iTunes sees the little ratings stars that I've set on the iPod.
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Updating all the songs is impossible,
But you want to update the same songs over and over?
i have more than 30gb on my pc, and also i dont like carrying some unnessesary song with me all the time.
So don't put all the songs on your iPod.
Just put the ones you want. You can select to auto update only selected playlists.
Taggs on my computer and ipod are different because it's more useful this way..
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I don't understand how it's "more useful". It's certainly not more convenient.
Since you are already in iTunes, why not make it simple and update everything only one time?
I mean, you can do it any way you want but is is so much easier to do it only one time.
The iPod/iTunes were designed for simple and ease of use. You shouldn't have constantly put a bunch of work into just maintaining everything.

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Hi Paul,
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Steve

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