Playcounts a little strange for me.
Upgraded to 9.1.251 (10gb ipod, 1.3OS).
Restored Ipod using Apple Updater.
Initialized using MC.
Sent 1 playlist (best of 2003) and 1 album (Castaways & Cutouts) to Ipod. Disconnected.
On Ipod, did not see playlist, but I can see songs are there. Played Postal Service's Such Great Heights song. Next, played tracks 1,2,&4 from album- skipping track 3 midway through to see if that would be counted as a play.
Reconnected Ipod to computer. I was unsure whether just syncing Ipod would bring info over to PC, so I first synced info with MC (which took less than a second?). Next, I synced my usual playlists w/ my Ipod, and disconnected.
On my PC, I checked the songs I played on the Ipod- each had not been played before on the PC. Here are my results (song, plays, last played):
Postal Service, Such Great Heights:26564832, last played 1.7 years ago
Castaways track 1: 1, last played 1.7 years ago
track 2: 1, last played 1.7 years ago
track 3: 26564832, 3.0 minutes ago
track 4:2082844801, last played -19588285.7 minutes ago
Then I realized I hadn't set the time on my Ipod after restoring. Set my Time. Played 1 song, called Night Light. Then replayed Castaways track 2.
Plug Ipod back in. This time, both show on my PC with the correct number of plays, and the correct last played time.
Play Postal Service song again on Ipod, play simultaneously on PC. Reconnect Ipod, right click to update info, Media Core error- MC shuts down. Try again, same result.
Initialize Ipod again, and resync all my playlists.
Play Postal Service one more time on Ipod, then reconnect to PC. Sync info w/ Ipod works ok, and then the Postal Service song displays this many plays:
26564834.
So I'll reset that, and continue. Anyone have any suggestions for the wacky playcounts?