# iTunes isn't recognizing songs played on my iPod in times played.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-isnt-recognizing-songs-played-on-my-ipod-in-times-played/568674>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 23, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-isnt-recognizing-songs-played-on-my-ipod-in-times-played/568674 "2011-01-23T17:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-isnt-recognizing-songs-played-on-my-ipod-in-times-played/568674/1 "2011-01-23T17:51:02Z")

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I just got a new computer and my iTunes is set back to zero times played for all of my music, which isn’t a big deal, but it is a little funny. Anyway, I’ve discovered that if I listen to music on shuffle on my iPod, and then sync it, the songs I listened to aren’t updating as having been played on iTunes. A couple songs I listened to intentionally, ie, I wanted to hear those songs and I went directly to them on my iPod, and they do show as having been played once.

So, not a major problem in the grand scheme of things, but I have to wonder if there’s some setting I can’t find that’s doing this. Any ideas? Or is it just iTunes being the brilliant piece of software it is?

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-isnt-recognizing-songs-played-on-my-ipod-in-times-played/568674/2 "2011-01-23T19:36:55Z")

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Had this problem, and then I realized: I didn’t really have to know. So i turned off a lot of the options under “View Options”.

See? Apple did me a favor. I no longer worry about the popularity of my songs, or the ratings, or the sample rate, or “Last Skipped” or the category. I just listen…

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**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-isnt-recognizing-songs-played-on-my-ipod-in-times-played/568674/3 "2011-01-23T21:21:04Z")

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I believe the play count only updates if you have the iPod set to sync automatically.