iTunes Match vs. Play Counts

I have seen that updates to my Recently Played and Unplayed playlist are reflected on iTunes each day that I care to check. Great but hey I'm wondering to what values would playcounts and last played date set to if Match subscription ends? Would we lose all these data we lovingly gained while on Match?

I've also seen play counts increasing by 2 when I've only played them once, the only way I've noticed it is on new songs I've just added, I've made a mental note on some of my other music I play a lot to see how often it's happening!

The only thing I can help with on this is when I've turned match off the data doesn't disappear and reset to a "pre match" level, by the looks of it all the data is added to the iTunes library file when it updates the play counts, this is also the case when you move your library from one computer to another.

Quite risky I know.

All I know is that no matter how many times I turn match off and on, I still do NOT get my play counts updating even after 24 hours. 😟

Have you turned your phone off?

No. I'll try that too. Does that force an update through Match? I wonder if it's because I have it turned on for four devices (iPad, iPhone, and two laptops).

I've got the same number of devices so I don't think it's that, I turned my phone on&off, then match on&off, then played a song on my laptop, it eventually started working, it's very complicated, think its just a case of keep trying, good luck!

LOL. Sounds like I need a shaman, a full moon, and some old runes. 😉

Mine is also now updating, it seems, on the 24 hour period, initiated by more playing of songs on the iOS device.

I am also noticing that play counts increase by two instead of one in my master iTunes library on my iMac.

What I can't understand is that other cloud based services from Apple like Photostream photos and Calendar events sync perfectly and quite quickly. Why is there so much trouble with a small amount of metadata like a play count or last date played being synced via the cloud?

Craig.

Mine is still NOT updating play counts no matter how many times I play a song from my iPhone over multiple days.

Would anyone from Apple care to look into this? It's a possible blocker issue for repeat buisness.

I can't believe it. My play counts just updated for the first time. I too am seeing it increase by two for each single play. Better than zero. lol

Why is something so simple, so hard for Apple. Playcount. But, now that they have figured out how to increase playcount by 2, hopefully they can figure out quick. My renewal is in 3 weeks.

I guess they don't think it's that important unfortunately, I'm getting some update by 1 and some by 2, ahhhh

any idea what is happening with the ones that are updating correctly? I can't tell where any are updating by 1, rather all playcounts are increasing by 2 in each instance that a song is played (about 25 songs).

No not really, completely in the dark, the track that updated with only 1 play count had been a victim of the 2 play count last week, they were played on my iPhone both times, I've taken a note of some of the play counts to watch what happens