Smart Playlists, Last Played, and Playcounts (and some other stuff)

Well, so here's my contribution to piling on with iTunes Match annoyances...
* Artwork doesn't show up during playback on iPhone until I tap <- button and then tap on Now Playing > button.
* Not Played in a year smart playlist shows 3x more songs than the source computer's iTunes library shows.  I consider the source computer that synched its library to iCloud to be authoritative.
* Furthermore, the Not Played in a Year smart playlist on iPhone doesn't match what is on my iPad.  300 additional songs on the iPad.
* Repeated attempts to copy 4 songs up to iCloud fail, even though they should've been added.  Can other devices see them?  Yes, but they're grayed out because the track isn't copied into the cloud.
* Battery is getting chewed through on my iPhone 4.  I haven't tracked it too closely, but it does seem like there's something consuming more power, and I can feel that the phone is warmer to the touch.
* Playcounts are not updated when I listen to songs on iOS or even Mac OS X-based devices.  This is an absolute dealbreaker for me.  While it's great to get song upgrades, I can't use iTunes Match as part of my "playflow" until playcounts and smartplaylists that incorporate last played criteria are fully supported.
It's just sooo close to being great, but without Smart Playlist support and support for playcounts, there's no point for me.  I have to revert to no iTunes Match on my iOS devices for now.
C'mon Apple, get this stuff fixed.  PLEASE!

Well, the good news is that I sent these list of problems to someone a little bit higher up at Apple and was very pleasantly surprised to get a call from one of the support guys within the iTunes store today.
We went over the smart playlists issue and I've hopefully given him enough detail to help him reproduce the problem internally.  He's going to look to get that issue reported to the iOS team.  Regardless, I think Apple knows there's work that needs to be done to fix some of these bugs/oddness we're all seeing with Match.

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