Play Count for Duplicate tracks

It will be nice if we can have an option for every track on enabling which if any duplicate of it is played, the 'Play count' of all duplicates is increased by 1..
Otherwise, the minor trouble is .. I love a song (say Here Comes the Sun) and have listened to it hundreds of times and recently got hold of a better Bit Rate version of it. Obviously, I will like to listen to the better bit rate track..but this will start me from 0 play count. This may be a slight bother if one is too fussy about smart playlists...
Or is there a way out..?

Yep, easy. Go to Doug's Apple Scripts for iTunes...
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php
and there you will find a few for adjusting playcounts. I have a couple I use that work great. The main one I use you pick the track, hit the script, type in the number of counts you want to increase or decrease the track and then hit the PLUS or the MINUS button and it adjusts the track,
So you find Here Comes The Sun in a higher bit rate. You old one say a play count of 27. Select the new track, hit the script, type 27, hit PLUS now the new track says 27. Delete the old track. Tah dah!
Patrick

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