Play count increases every sync

I'm having an issue where every time I sync my iPhone, they play count for played songs increase. This is expected, except if I hit sync again, the play counts will increase again. Is there a way to fix iTunes/the iPhone to only increase the count once?

I'm having this same problem, it's driving me up the wall, is there some way to fix it? THis bug, or whatever it is? I didn't have these problems until I downloaded some of the new software updates a few days ago...

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Podcast play count reset when syncing multiple devices

I have noticed some odd behavior since upgrading iTunes to version 10. My wife and I each have an iPhone, iPad, and an iPod nano. I have several playlists that I sync to each of my devices. The problem comes when I play some podcasts on one device, and other podcasts on another device. I sync one device, the play count updates. I sync one of the other devices, and the play count updates on some songs, but is deleted on others. I can tell which tracks have been reset because they still have a Last Played Date. It appears that the device with the most advanced time overwrites the play count in the library.
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this behavior?
Doc

After much faffing, I have finally found out what to do. I've been stupid. Or maybe the whole sync thing isn't clear or intuitive, but probably I've been stupid.
I'm posting this because I couldn't find a definitive answer anywhere and because lots of people had similar questions to me.
The following settings work as I would expect them to. That is:
1. I have all my iTunes content on my iPod touch (not just some tracks, but all 8186 of them)
2. When I rate a track on the iPod, I expect that rating to copy into iTunes when I sync
3. I don't expect all 8186 songs to be wiped from my iPod and replaced again every time I sync; i.e. I only want any new ratings/artwork/tracks in iTunes to be duplicated on my iPod
So, here are my settings which work for me, at least:
1. In *iTunes Preferences*, on the Devices tab, *Prevent iPods and iPhones from syncing automatically* is unchecked
2. When the iPod is connected to my Mac, when clicking the iPod in the sidebar;
a) on the Summary tab, *Open iTunes when this iPod is attached* is unchecked
(I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I usually already have iTunes open when connecting the iPod)
b) on the Music tab, *Sync Music:* and *Entire music library* are checked
3. I then click Sync at the bottom of that tab and, lo and behold, everything syncs properly.
Prior to this, I did have to go through that tedious process of having everything removed from the iPod and replaced, but it seems that that was a one-off chore and now things seem OK.
If you're syncing Apps, Calendar, Contacts, etc. too, then those settings can be checked in the Applications and Info tabs and that seems to function properly as well.
This may seem basic and obvious to some, but there does appear to be a lot of confused folks out there!

IPod Touch, iOS6, "Other" memory increasing every sync?

I have noticed that since the "update" to 6.0, my iPod touch has an increasing amount of "other" memory with every sync. The amount of "other" increases by about 400 mb every time I sync it. Even when I synced it twice in a row with no new podcasts or anything at all that would have been different from the sync just performed.
I restored it from backup, and the "other" memory stayed the same. When it got up to 14 GB, I restored and set up as "new", and the "other" memory dropped back to normal, then immediately started increasing with each sync.
I de-selected the only 2 apps that have updated recently, the only thing I couldn't undo is iOS 6. Other than that, I have done nothing different than I've been doing for the 2+ years I've had it.
Is there something I have set wrong in the settings since it's a touch and not a phone? I didn't change anything when 6 was installed, should I?
I really don't want to have to restore this thing as "new" every month!

Thanks for your reply. I saw those threads and a few others when I searched earlier, but not the one about Safari. I don't use Safari often, but I will try clearing the cache. That's the only one of those things I haven't tried.
I wondered what the "other" was a long time ago, and looked it up. It was behaving normally until recently, after the iOS update, when it started gaining .2-.5 GB per sync. And restoring as "new" didn't stop that, it only reset the "other" to a normal size.
I mainly use this iPod for podcasts & mp3, and watching videos. A few other apps, nothing new added or changed that I could maybe think might be the cause.

Play Count update during sync

Hi!
I have a question regarding the +Play Count+ of songs in my library.
Let's say that my iPod and my iTunes library are currently in sync,
and the Play Count of a particular song, let's say Song X, currently stands at 10.
If I play Song X three times on my PC through iTunes, and five times on my iPod,
then, if i sync my iPod to iTunes, will the +Play Count+ of Song X be equal to 18? 15? 13?
I'm very meticulous when it comes to the +Play Count+ of my songs.
'hope someone can answer this.
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My problem is rather unique and certainly one i hadnt forseen. My iPod starts playing a 'smart playlist' i recently made with itunes 7 after every sync with the computer...the issue is that it starts after 30-40 mins of disconnection from my PC. this is very infurating since i am hardly around to check if it is playing or not. Mostly i find out about it a couple of hours after my last sync with PC. I have tried activating 'hold' button to make sure there is no outside influence however, it does this through a locked drawer!
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Maual manage songs ... play count and ratings sync

When you set your ipod to "manually manage songs" play counts and ratings, among other things, don't update.
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How do we contact Apple to include features in future updates? There's really no reason for the "manually manage" option to be so crippled on purpose.

Hi Clement Bassens,
There are some programs on the market that allow you to transfer your content and metadata from your iPod to your computer.
In my opinion, [iPod Access|http://www.findleydesigns.com/ipodaccess/index.html] or [iRepo|http://www.purpleghost.com/index.php?q=irepo] are excellent, once they have iPod Touch/iPhone compatibility and can also transfer your ratings, playlists and everything else.
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Any way to make play count increase if the track is only partially played?

Sometimes I get impatient and click "next" as a song fades out or has a little dead air at the end. But itunes doesn't count a song as played unless it goes all the way to the end and on to the next track it seems.
Any way to change that?

I checked/emailed with the script guy and he confirmed that he did not have anything for this.
I knew about skipping to the end of a track. I've submitted this as a product enhancement to Apple to let the user define how many seconds into the song before it's considered "played." I consider this like an email being marked "read" even if you just were on preview for like 10 seconds.

Play Count That Syncs iPod-iTunes

Hey!,Is there a way to have the play count of iTunes sync with the iPod and be able to view on the iPod... and i have a Black 30GB iPod 5th Gen (Video) with version 1.1.1.

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IPod Touch messes up the play count

I was wondering if im the only one with this problem. Every time when i connect the ipod touch to my PC (currently still PC but getting a Mac on sunday), and than disconnecting it again, using it a while and connecting it again, the play count of some songs are completely wrong. For instance i listened to a song 4 times and suddenly the playcount shows like 253 or something. i dont sync the ipod touch with my pc library because i dont want to. is that the problem?
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i am having the exact same problem.
my ipod touch puts play counts up to over 1000 after listening a couple of times..
make sure music is just stopped, not just paused on a playlist, and you dont have it on repeat mode.
i have had to reset all of my play counts of every song (right click in itunes > reset play count)
i think i may take it back if this keeps happening.

Misleading play count on movies

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To solve this problem it would be better if a movie's play count increased each time it passed the beginning of the credits. I don't know if this is technically possible. But eventually the play count could increase when there was for example five or ten minutes left. What do others think of this?

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Play counts doubling when I manually sync

Over the past week, my play counts have been going up by 2's instead of by 1's. Every time I play a song on my IPhone 5S and manually sync with ITunes, ITunes shows the number of plays has increased by 2. Has any one else experienced this?
The onlychange I've made recently is upgrading ITunes: I sync with 2 computers and keep my library and my Media on an accessory hard drive that I shuttle back and forth between both computers. One computer runs 11.3.0, the other runs 11.3.1 - could this discrepancy be related to the problem? My IPhone is running 7.1.2
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Haven't seen this myself, but then again I don't have any rated songs with no Last Played date. A couple of suggestions:
1- Try a Reset or Restore of the iPhone.
2- In your smart playlist criteria, add "Media Kind is Music". Strange, but sometimes this nudges a smart playlist into behaving.
3- Modify your criteria as follows:
Match All:
- Media Kind Is Music
- Rating > 3
(indent) ----> Match Any:
.....................- Last Played Not in the Last 8 weeks
.....................- Playcount is 0
That will "OR" the zero playcounts with songs that have not been played in the last 8 weeks, and "AND" all those with the required criteria of 4 or 5 stars as well as Media Kind being Music. If you don't know how to "indent" the criteria, click on the elipses (...) to the right of the last criteria you entered, and be sure to change the overall criteria to Match Any for the indented portion.

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.

Sync manually managed iPod played count etc with multiple iTunes libraries

I have my music and podcasts spread out in different iTunes libraries. So if I sync items, tracks from another library are deleted from my iPod therefore I manually manage my tracks. The downside is when you connect a manual iPod to iTunes your ratings, played date, count don't get synced with the iTunes Library. So I created a simple applescript that syncs tracks on specified playlists on your iPod with matching ones in iTunes. I realise applescripts exist to do this already but I wanted something which required no user input and simply did what would happen if the iPod was in sync mode.
The applescript:
tell application "iTunes"
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    set syncPlaylists to {"Music", "Podcasts"}
    repeat with syncPlaylist in syncPlaylists
        repeat with i from 1 to count of sources
            if the kind of source i is iPod then
                set iPodName to name of source i as string
                set ipodPlaylistId to (first playlist of source iPodName whose name is syncPlaylist)
            end if
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        set musicLibraryId to (first playlist whose name is syncPlaylist)
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        repeat with ipodPlaylistTracksCounter from 1 to count of tracks of ipodPlaylistId
            set ipodTrack to track ipodPlaylistTracksCounter of ipodPlaylistId
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            set foundTracksInPlaylist to (every track of musicLibraryId whose ((name is item 1 of ipodTrackData) and (artist is item 2 of ipodTrackData) and (album is item 3 of ipodTrackData)))
            repeat with eachFoundTrackInPlaylist in foundTracksInPlaylist
                --use try blocks in case of missing data
                try
                    set played date of eachFoundTrackInPlaylist to item 4 of ipodTrackData
                end try
                try
                    set played count of eachFoundTrackInPlaylist to item 5 of ipodTrackData
                end try
                try
                    set rating of eachFoundTrackInPlaylist to item 6 of ipodTrackData
                end try
            end repeat
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell
Mac Mini G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1 GB RAM, ATI 9200 32MB, Samsung 940BW 19" Widescreen TFT LCD monitor

btw if you don't know how to use applescripts. Open script editor, you'll find it in Applications/Applescript/. Open a new window and copy the code in it and press compile. Save as a script and place in your home folder at ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts, create a Scripts folder if it doesn't exist. Alternatively, save as an application, on opening it will do its magic! Make sure an iPod is mounted in iTunes otherwise an error message will pop up.

Ratings and play counts not synced to iTunes

I just got a 2G iPod nano 2GB. Whenever I add ratings or increase the play count for songs on the iPod and then sync to iTunes, the ratings and play counts are obliterated by whatever iTunes has for its data. Example: I make a 5 star smart playlist in iTunes with Live update, then while listening to iPod I rate some songs with 5 stars. They show up in the playlist on iPod since they have 5 stars, but once I sync with iTunes again, the stars are wiped out and the smart playlist is back to exactly what is was in iTunes.
It seems to me that syncing should take whichever has newer information (iPod or iTunes) and propagate it to the other. I read some topics from others that had this same problem and people have repeatedly stated that Automatic syncing must be enabled and not manually manage music. I don't have room to put all my music on the iPod, but I have enabled automatic syncing with selected playlists. My question is this: does this count as automatic updating for the purposes of ratings and play counts being copied to iTunes when I sync with iPod? Or does automatic sync need to be for the entire library in order for ratings and play counts to be propagated? Thanks!
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My question is this: does this count as automatic updating for the purposes of ratings and play counts being copied to iTunes when I sync with iPod?
it should do. green eyes is a second gen nano, i'm syncing selected playlists only, and my play counts and ratings are updating in the smart playlists.
are you playing the songs through completely? i'm noticing that i only get a playcount update if i've completely played the song. (the ratings changes go through regardless of whether or not i've completely played a song on green eyes, though.)

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