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Unplayed playlist issues

Twice, since the upgrade to iTunes 11, I've gone to my smart playlist of unplayed songs to find a bunch of my old songs on it:

The playlist matches all of the following:

Plays is 0

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So why do songs change to Plays is 0, when they have been played before?

Also, when I play that playlist, sometimes it will play randomly (it used to be top to bottom), and sometimes it won't play at all, when I use my remote - I have to select a song by hand to get it going. I play that song and then it stops. Then I have to click another song to get it to play. Actually, these are podcasts, the songs that played randomly were songs that were mistakenly set to plays=0. The podcasts which used to play nicely top to bottom often won't do so now.

Is this a known bug with iTunes 11?

Posted on Dec 8, 2012 8:11 AM

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Howard Brazee Author

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Feb 15, 2013 7:01 AM in response to Howard Brazee

The funny thing is, it happens when iTunes is open and apparently not doing anything.

I have iTunes open on a 2nd monitor. I had listened to a couple of podcasts that were on my unplayed smart list earlier. This feature is broken from earlier iTunes, in that I have to select each podcast one at a time instead of having them all play. When I was done, I continued browsing on my main monitor.

After a while I looked over to the other monitor, 3 songs and a movie are now listed as unplayed, even though they have been played lots of times (well the songs have been played lots of times).

Howard Brazee Author

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Feb 21, 2013 9:54 AM in response to Howard Brazee

I noticed today, when I also got a new podcast - that when I use my remote control to play them, the "old" songs with a playcount of zero will play correctly, while the new podcast needs to be selected by hand.

Unplayed playlist issues