How can I
manually edit play counts?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
You can use AppleScript. I whipped up a quick one that will do what you want. Just copy this text and paste it into the Script Editor in the AppleScript folder in your Applications folder:
<pre class="command">tell application "iTunes"
set sel to selection
repeat with t in sel
set trackname to the name of t
set dialog_answers to display dialog "Enter a new play count for " & trackname & ":" default answer ""
set newcount to text returned of dialog_answers as integer
if button returned of dialog_answers is "OK" then
set played count of t to newcount
end if
end repeat
end tell</pre>Look in the Library folder in your account's home. There might be an iTunes folder. If there is, see if there's a "Scripts" folder inside it. If there is, save your script there, with a name like "Change Play Count". Choose "script" as the format. It'll show up in a new menu with a little script icon.
You should be able to select a track or tracks in iTunes and use this script to change the play counts. It's kind of a quick hack, so there's not much in the way of error checking, and if you hit the "Cancel" button, it just stops, but it'll get you started...
charlie