Play count going blank

play counts disappearing

It is not a cross fade issue. The cross fade issue is if you are listening to a song through your iTunes library and at the end of the song the play count doesn't update. The issue that we have is randomly play counts are being deleted. Looks like for the most part its songs purchased through the iTunes store. On a positive note its been a couple weeks since any of my playcounts have been deleted.
Maybe Apple does listen? 

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