New iTunes zeroing Play counts?

Immediately after I installed the new iTunes, I noticed that the play counts on about 3% of my music library had been reset to zero. There was apparently no rhyme nor reason - new songs, old songs, different genres. I informed Apple through the `feedback on iTunes' menu item, and studiously set about trying to adust those play counts manually, to better reflect how often I had listened to the 700+ songs involved.
Imagine my dismay when I realized in the last day or two that this was not a one time occurrence! That is, the number of songs with a zero play count has increased by 50 per cent in three or four days, to over 1000 songs. Needless to say, I will quit trying to recreate play counts, as it is clearly a losing battle. Count me as another dissatisfied customer of this iTunes update.
If this is also a problem for you, would you please notify Apple officially? That way, maybe they will fix this problem in the hoped-for fixed version of iTunes. Thank you.

I have the same problem like you. iMac with Yosemite and iPhone 6. A song, added 2 months ago has 205 counts. Other songs I have for years ago have only 80 counts. And there are other songs, where the same thing is happening. And its starts mixing up everything at my library -.-
Today I talked to Apple Care at the phone. He never heard of that problem. And talked with a colleague. Result: Nothing. He can not promise, that a future update either of Yosemite (e.g.10.10.1) or iTunes will solve the problem.
He talked about editing the itunes library.xml document. However, I have to do this on my own because Apple doesn't provide this solution. And if that helps: Nobody knows. Since I am not an expert, i can't do that.
Other options: A new library or reseting al counters.
All in all: No solution that helps.
I may start reseting some of the counters that are most crazy, and hope for an effective update. (Sorry for potential english mistakes )

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For example, I added a new song to my library on 10/09/14 and only played it once in my car. When I synced my iPhone this morning, the song had 28 plays. I know for a fact that this song only played once in total. About 30 songs have had their play counts dramatically inflated (25-60 plays).
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I have the same problem like you. iMac with Yosemite and iPhone 6. A song, added 2 months ago has 205 counts. Other songs I have for years ago have only 80 counts. And there are other songs, where the same thing is happening. And its starts mixing up everything at my library -.-
Today I talked to Apple Care at the phone. He never heard of that problem. And talked with a colleague. Result: Nothing. He can not promise, that a future update either of Yosemite (e.g.10.10.1) or iTunes will solve the problem.
He talked about editing the itunes library.xml document. However, I have to do this on my own because Apple doesn't provide this solution. And if that helps: Nobody knows. Since I am not an expert, i can't do that.
Other options: A new library or reseting al counters.
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I may start reseting some of the counters that are most crazy, and hope for an effective update. (Sorry for potential english mistakes )

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