Smart playlists have old status after charging ipod

after charging my ipod when the battery had been empty, for example the "least recently played"-smart playlist has songs in it, which were also there before charging and i have already played before.
not until i play one song in it, the playlist updates and the other already-before-charging-played songs disappear.
is it a bug?
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