Why are all the playcounts in my iTunes library screwed up?
I've been experiencing some odd behavior with iTunes and the playcounts in my library. I'm seeing the "Last Played" dates for some of my songs actually go back in time. For example, I listened to a song on my ipod on 4/14/12 and when I synced my ipod with iTunes the Last Played date updated to 4/14/12. Then with a subsequent sync sometime later, the Last Played date went back to 3/30/12 for that song. I'm positive that I listened to that song on the 14th of April and when I synced my ipod on Monday the 16th the Last Played date updated to 4/14. However it says I last played that song on 3/30/12 in my iTunes library right now. This is true of other songs in my library and I know it's not just my imagination. Not too long ago all of my playcounts got screwed up when I synced my ipod with iTunes. Afterwards, I went to the iTunes library file in Windows Explorer and restored it to an earlier time. That seemed to fix all of my playcounts at the time but is it possible that my iTunes library became corrupted? Did the restoration of that library file ruin my library? I can't delete my library because I'll lose all of my playcounts and playlists. This is a library I've built over a period of 3 years. Someone please help!
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