Play Count for Visio

Hi, I'm new to the forums. I have a zen touch and love it but it's outdated. I am really considering purchasing a Vision: M and although it won't completely convince me to buy or not to buy, I was wondering if it had a "play count" feature. What I mean is that, does it say you've listened to this song 5 times and this song 200 times, etc. Thanks.

Ok so it does keep track but there's no way to display it eh? Oh well, at least it gives you that option. And I definetly will get the screen protectors. I already have some but they're not meant to be 00% clear because you don't need to see the screen on what they're for. I'll have to get another one. Any other accessories worth getting?

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1st gen ipod Shuffle not updating play count for songs

I've noticed since I updated to the iTunes version 7.2.035 that plugging in and updating the library with my iPod shuffle no longer updates the play count for the songs I've listened to. Is there a known fix for this? Anyone else experiencing the same problem with their 1st gen ipod shuffle (512)?

Well, I have that problem too. My shuffle holds about 125 songs or so, yet I've noticed there are always a good 20 or so songs that won't play, no matter how many times I load them onto the device. I have had that problem since I inherited it from a friend.
My new problem is that every time I plug my iPod into iTunes, it no longer updates the playcount for songs. In other words, if I load a song that I've heard 3 times, hear it twice during the day, and replug in my iPod at night, it used to update that song's playcount in the library to 5, but now they still read 3. It's also failing to update the "date last played" field.
I use those to help make sure that I don't load the same songs over and over again by creating a custom playlist that will comb out songs played in the last few days and have a very high play count. Since these are no longer updating, I've noticed that I keep arriving at work only to find my iPod has the same or similar songs as the day before, and dude, if I wanted that, I'd listen to the radio!

Play count for imported items

Here's a new one for me...
Starting with this latest version, when I burn a CD, it automatically marks the Play Count for those items at 1. Anyone else encounter this? Is there a fix?

i've noticed that sometimes the play count does not increase for songs, and the only workaround i've seen that works is to do a second sync after the first one completes.

Sync increments play count for songs that haven't played since last sync

Sometime in the last two months, my iPhone 3G and iTunes started showing a bizarre behavior. I have a smart playlist that only plays songs that have not been played in the last 4 weeks and that have not been played more than a certain number of times (I add 1 to that number after each time it goes through my entire library). I sync the phone every night (because I don't want to lose the recently played data if the iPhone resets for some reason - another irritating bug). Anyway, sometimes when I sync the phone, it increments the play count for songs that were played before the previous sync as well as the songs played since the last sync. This means that those songs are being double counted, even though they were only played once.
Here's another way to describe the story:
Day 1: Play 50 songs with play count value X (call this set A). Sync at end of day, now all 50 songs in set A have play count value X+1.
Day 2: Play 50 more songs with play count X (call this set B). Sync at end of day, now songs in set B have play count X+1, but songs in set A now have play count X+2 (even though they were not played again).
Day 3: 50 more songs (set C). After sync, songs in set C have play count X+1, those in B have play count X+2, and those in set A have play count X+3.
It never seems to go more than 3 days back. This is not reliable - in fact, I thought it was fixed after the last iTunes update, but it just happened again.
One other thing that I notice: whenever this happens, the count shown for the playlist on the iPhone is incorrect. For example, today before the sync, it said I was on song 156 of 271 in my playlist. However, I only played about 50 songs today, and I synced last night, so it restarted the playlist from 1. I don't know when it jumped so much - when I restarted the playlist this morning, it was on 6 of 271 (which was correct).
The only other thing I think may play into this is when I have my playlist carry overnight (i.e. I start playing it at night after the sync, then come in in the morning and have it pick up where it left off). I am usually pretty good about syncing at the end of every day, but I think that I'm only seeing this behavior when I have this overnight thing going on.
Anyway, has anyone else seen this behavior? Does anyone have any suggestions? I would not use the play count in my smart playlist, but it's the only way to ensure that random play actually gets through my entire playlist when I'm forced to sync every night (because of the other bug).

wow, this is messed up! i'm sorry, but i don't have a solution for you, more of a 'work around'. what i have started doing is using the 'genre' field to keep track of the songs i have listened to, and those that i have not.
i set the genre for all of my songs to be '0'. after syncing, in my iPhone, i go into the 'genre' listing, go into '0', hit 'view all songs' and start playing the first song i have. next, when i sync, i change the 'genre' in all of the songs i've listened to to '1', and after i resync, i can go into my iPhone (using the same method above) and start playing the songs i haven't listened to.
i know it's a pain, but it's the only workaround i have for this problem. i'm very disappointed in apple and the iPhone because of their lack of awesome playlist support. i had a creative mp3 player that was supremely awesome with playlists. i would add all of my songs to a 'playlist', and be able to listen to a few songs, then go watch a video, and when i went back into the music player, it would remember the last song i was listening to. it wouldn't remember where i was in the song, but the fact that it remembered the song i was listening to made it one of the best devices i've had. i wish that apple would spend some time and make this functionality possible.

Play count for podcasts do not update when using Smart Playlist

On my iPhone, when I play podcasts using a Smart Playlist I have noticed that neither the "play count" nor the "watched" get updated for any of the podcasts I listened to (and yes, I listen through to the end of each).
After listening to several podcasts in the Smart Playlist (letting it play from end of one into beginning of next and so on), then syncing to my PC, all of the podcasts still shows as being "unwatched" and the play count field is blank.
Problem only seems to occur when listening via Smart Playlist - which is very disappointing since the Smart Playlist is set to only include podcasts I have not yet listened to (play count is zero). If this is a bug, it makes this feature useless.
NOTE: Not sure if this would matter, but I frequently listen to podcasts at 2x speed (double).
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You have the shuffle feature turned on. Since Podcasts are labelled (by iTunes) as *Skip when shuffling* (to prevent them playing while you're trying to listen to music) when one Podcasts finishes, there is nothing else left to play. If you look at the play tally, it will say 1 of 1.
Turn the Shuffle off. If you look at the play tally, it will now say 1 of x.
Phil

Combine Play Count for multiple libraries?

Apologies if this has been discussed recently. I tried searching and didn't find anything.
I have iTunes installed on my home desktop (Windows Vista), my laptop (Windows XP) and my work computer (Mac). Each computer has a different library, but there are many common songs. I'd like to combine the play counts so my home desktop shows the total number of times I've played each song. Is that possible without making the libraries on each computer identical (which would be impossible because my laptop hard drive isn't big enough)?
Thanks for any help.

No, I am afraid Home Sharing won't owrk for this. It only works on a LAN and it only sync tracks not counts.
I am afraid iTunes does not do this. Apart from getting into some fairly complex programming in a scripting language using the iTunes COMS interface, I don't see how this could be done.

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

Reset play count for CD's that I own

In my iTunes Music Library I have only CD's that I own. I would like to reset all play counts to zero. How can I do that.
N.B. I have tried to change the play counts that appear in Library.xml, but this has no effect and gets corrected back from information stored somewhere else when I open iTunes.

Hey there,
I would check out this article from methodshop explaining just how to do this. Hope it helps.
[How to Reset the Play Count in iTunes|http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/tutorials/resetplaycount/index.shtml]
B-rock

Play count question. I have about 500 songs in my library that I know have played at least once...probably just once. Although there is a "last played" date listed there is no number in the play count column. Any reason for this? thx

I have about 500 songs in my library that have played one time. Although a "last date played" date is noted, there is no number in the play count column. This only happens some times. Any reason for this, and can it be corrected? thx

Thanks, but the play count is not incrementing only on the very first play. All subsequent plays are fine. Meaning the play counts for these particular tracks are always one play short. I double-checked some of the tracks in question and I have not shortened, or stopped them early.

Play Count Zero for Songs Previously Played

Does Play Count reset to zero if a song is not played after a certain amount of time? I have Play Count = 0 for songs that I know I have played.
I am looking for ideas for why I have zero play count for songs that I have played.

That's the answer then. Syncing is a "procedure" which, among other things, does all the work for you of finding out how many times each song has been played on the iPod and transferring that information back to iTunes. When you Manual Manage, all you are doing is manually dragging songs on and off, nothing else.
Phil

Play Count Wont Update For Songs Under 11 Seconds Long

Hello,
I have downloaded iTunes 11 and have found that it does not seem to record a play count for songs (audio-book) that are under 11 seconds in length. Is there a way to amend this so that it does record a play count for these? I am playing songs directly from iTunes.
Chris

Hi Steven -- thanks, your fix works for me too. I hadn't even known about iTunes' File > Create New Version.
An alternate symptom: If I played the song and manually clicked near the end, it *would* update correctly. But if I played it through completely w/o skipping, it wouldn't update the play-count.
For any others:
I wanted to preserve the date-imported-into-library and play-count of the new version, so:
- File > Create New Version
- Looking at the new entry I saw, via File > Get Info > Summary > Where, that the new entry pointed to a (new) file which a " 1" added to the filename.
- I quit iTunes
- manually deleted the original/bad copy in the Finder,
- renamed the newer/good copy (deleting the appened '2').
- I re-started iTunes, and found the song.
[At this point: There were still two copies of the song in my play-list (as expected), but it was NOT the case that one was shown as 'file not locatable'; both were pointing to the single, correct .mp3, and both entries the original date-imported and play-count ( ! ) -- a bit of smart library clean-up being done by iTunes under the hood.]
- While viewing the full Songs list in iTunes (not a playlist) I deleted the version I didn't want (being sure to select 'keep file' rather than 'move to trash'), and it worked fine.
> (This doesn't explain why the play count updated fine for a year, though ...)
>
Totally guessing, but: perhaps the mp3 file is not quite in the standard/proper format. An old version of iTunes handled it correctly anyway, but a 2013-Nov-ish update to iTunes suddenly relies on the file being in the correct format?
I'm assuming the mp3 file has a header stating its song-time, which is different from the data that's *actually* provided. Redundant info can increase efficiency, but it opens the door to inconsistent data, which leads to bugs. Fortunately, this is a relatively minor one....

How can I import playlists, ratings, and play counts from an old iTunes library into a new one?

After reading countless threads re: how to get the iTunes artwork screensaver to work, I decided to delete my iTunes library file and reimport all of music which resulted in fixing the iTunes artwork screensaver. Unfortunately (and expectedly), my playlists, playcounts, and other information were lost with the creation of a new library. Is there any way to import the playlists, ratings and play counts for my music from an old library file to my current one? I realize this may be complex, but I'm up for the task.
Thanks in advance,
B

I can't begin to describe how frustrating the screensaver issue has been for me (and I suspect countless others, judging by the number of threads on the topic).
I took your advice, though, just to test it. After backing up my current library.itl, I copied and pasted the old .itl file into its place. As expected the playlists, play counts, etc were instantly restored. And now the screensaver fails to work with the dreaded error 'No iTunes artwork found' which makes me think it IS an issue with the old library file. The only work around I've seen so far is to rebuild the library (which I did).
I'm afraid I'm going to be forced into choosing either a working screen saver or all my itunes data. Very frustrating indeed.
Here's a link to the 'definitive' fix for the screensaver, if you're interested.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3695200?start=0&tstart=0
Thanks again,
B

Is there any way I can update my play count from my iPod to the same iTunes library on my computer that does not have any play counts?

I recently transferred my data (music, apps, etc.) to a new computer via transferring purchases and Home Sharing and only a few songs had play counts. On my older computer, all the songs had at least some documentation of a playcount. Thinking that I could figure it out, I reset the play count for the songs on the new computer. Is there any way I could get the play counts onto the computer w/out them via iPod or Home Sharing. I look forward to hearing a reply. Thank you.

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ITunes play counts are wrong. How can this be fixed?

I like managining my play counts, since I use a couple of smart playlists based on playcounts. However, I have this issue that I can't honestly seem to find a resolution to online. I see users with this problem, but no resolutions. Whenever I have to sync my iphone to itunes, it ends up jumbling up my play counts for some reason.
Example: If I have song A, that I've played 5 times previously. I play it 3 times, then sync my iphone, it'd end up with 13 plays (5 plays previous, then 5 plays again, plus the three extra plays.) I'll have song B, with 0 plays. I play it twice, sync again, and get 0 plays for the song.
Can this be fixed? I want song A to have 8 plays in iTunes/iphone, and song B to have 2 plays. This does not make any sense. I'm confused. I've heard it started with iTunes 8, but I can't downgrade since my iphone is on the latest firmware.

What should be happening is that each time you sync the device the number of plays made on the device since the last sync are added into iTunes as a global record. This system should be able to accurately support multiple devices. Because smart playlists can use play count as a parameter the devices must record both the current "total" and "device" play counts.
The first suggested fix for anything a bit random like this is to restore the device in the hope that it will just go away.
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ITunes resets play count to "1" after syncing

Hi, recently I've noticed that after syncing my iPod the play count for the tracks I've played that day are showing as 1 even though many of them have been played a lot more than that (some in the 100s). This has only been only happening since I upgraded my software to iTunes 10.2.2 and is very frustrating as I find the play count info very useful.
Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?
Thanks,
Chris

When your ipod is plugged into your itune click on it in itune and uncheck sync at the bottom of the page.

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