Play count and display

Since the latest upgrade of Itunes the play count of many of my tracks has automatically reset to 0 for some unknown reason. Also I display Track Name/Artist/Album on my Itunes and on a number of occasions they display incorrect information and when I click on Get Info for that track and click back out of it it shows the correct information (It's usually transfers over what's in the Sort Album/Title Name etc into the Album/Title Name field on the main display). So weird! Anyone else had this? Hope I've explained myself clearly!

I have the same issue with my Ipod Shuffle & Itunes.
Is there a resolution to this problem?
Thanks.

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I think I got this figured out. The playcount does update, but not how the previous iPod models update their playcount. Instead of immediately updating the playcount right after you finish the song like the older iPod models, iPod Touch keeps the updates in memory. The next time you connect to iTunes it'll sync those playcounts in memory to the actual songs itself, effectively updating the playcount of the songs only after connecting to iTunes. I have set my syncing manually. That's why after connecting to iTunes, my playcounts are updated. BUT it doesn't solve the mystery of my Smart Playlist. Even though in iTunes, the correct songs are listed, in the iPod Touch, it shows the old playlist.
Don't you just hate that? It was working fine before on non-iPod touch models. Now we have to live with this new bug. I just hope when they release software 2.0 it fixes these bugs and that they *give it for free!* People shouldn't be charged on something they should have gotten as a support!

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I had a problem with iTunes where I couldn't add songs to the library because I didn't have sufficient permissions to edit my iTunes library (even though I did). After a few days of tweaking administrator permissions and the like, I got really annoyed and tried re-installing iTunes to see if it would make it go away. Whilst the iTunes64Setup.exe file was downloading, I was fiddling with the .itl and .xml files in my iTunes folder and when I re-installed iTunes I had lost all my play counts and playlists. When iTunes opened, I assumed it must have overwritten the two files because when I looked at them in Windows Explorer they were both a lot smaller in size.
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or
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Short tracks (less than 10sec) do not update their metadata to increase the play count. However if I play a short track on my iPod or iPhone and then sync with iTunes the play count and last played info is updated.
This really messes up my smart playlists that use playcount limiters.
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This really messes up my smart playlists that use playcount limiters.
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Short tracks (less than 10sec) do not update their metadata to increase the play count. However if I play a short track on my iPod or iPhone and then sync with iTunes the play count and last played info is updated.
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I hope there is a fix for this soon.

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Where is play count and watched/unwatched data stored?
Is it on file or somewhere else?

I don't know where play count is stored, but, when using list view for songs
Go to menue toolbar item 'View' - on the drop down list that appears choose 'View Options...'
In the window that opens up check the box next to Play Count
now iTunes will keep track of how many times you play each song.
But, if you follow the same menue path while movies are in list view mode, the play count option does not appear to exist for movies, although date last played is an option.
If you don't check the box in view options, I don't think iTunes will keep track of song play count. The only data from past use of any individual item iTunes can show is probably limited to that items' metadata that you can see using the 'get info' option for any selected item.

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is there a way to disable the iPod from adding to the play count for songs when you plug it in?

Ok an observation and then a possible solution.
The observation: I find it very interesting how when people begin to use something they like that offers features never before offered (and this goes for anything, not just computers and software) that people become obsessed and/or dependent on that feature. With itunes and ipods, the whole issue of Play Counts has to be the number one in this regard. People are obsessed. Oh can't have my playlist be out of whack of what I actually listened to. Or I got a new computer/iPod/hard drive and I don't want to lose my playcounts. Funny how a few years back, most people before getting into iTunes or an iPod probably never considered how many times they listened to one album or song vs. another, let alone getting obsessed with maintaining a count.
Yes iTunes came around, introduced play counts, and now everyone is all up in arms if their playcounts are not accurate, updated, lost, etc.
OK so the possible solution. Since you use a Mac, you can use several different Apple scripts to adjust playcounts. In particular there is one that lets you add or subtract from the playcount (vs. setting a playcount to a specific number). So you can select a song or a bunch of songs at once, invoke the script, type the number you want to add or subtract then hit the or button and your playcounts are incremented or decremented that amount.
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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..
That way if you have to reload the songs, you have to "update" everything again.
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.
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