Since I've upgraded from an iPod classic to a Touch, I've had a number of times when I've synced with iTunes and tracks have not been correctly updated, that is, they have not been marked as played that day, even when they have been played (all the way through).
Further, I've downloaded some tracks from a course on iTunesU, but they do not show in the playlist on my iPod Touch (despite being in the playlist on iTunes).
I'm running iTunes 10.10.54 and 4.1 of the firmware. Does anyone know if either of these are known issues, or has anyone experienced similar issues.
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I have been asking the same question in other forums about resetting play counts when syncing.
One of the strong theories is that it is an iTunes bug caused when you recreate your library in iTunes 10 from a previous iTunes 9 file (which is what I did). Unfortunately though there is no obvious solution yet.
I have tried to solve to problem by installing a fresh copy of iTunes 9 on a separate PC and importing my existing library via the
iTunes Music Library.xmlfile.Unfortunately the trick for recreating the library by using the XML does not seem backwards compatible. Even if I modify the Application Version at the beginning of XML file it is not recognised by iTunes 9 and is overwritten by a new, clean iTunes Music Library.xml file.
It seems like a bug I'll have to live with until Apple fix the problem - I have submitted a bug report via their iTunes website.
Here is the thread from the apple.com forums - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2697318
*edit*
The latest version of iTunes (10.1.2) seems to have fixed the play count reset bug.