Podcasts showing played before syncing

When I've listened to a podcast on my device, it shows as played in iTunes before I've synced it. I don't have wifi syncing set up, so I don't understand why this is happening, when it hasn't happened until just recently.
I don't use the podcast app, but manually add each episode I want to listen to, to my device.
I have an iPod Touch 5th gen and use Windows 7. iTunes is the most current version.
I'd like to fix this so that when I play a podcast, the play count shows only the total times I've played it and not the multiple plays I'm currently seeing.
Thanks for any help!

I just replaced an iPod touch with the new iPad and greatly miss this feature as well. I can't think of why it would be missing on the iPad when the iPod and iTunes both have it. It is very frustrating.

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