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
Thanks

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