Got that new iTunes update 12.4 and now i cannot find the button that use to let me reset music plays or better yet, delete a song off the popular playlists "top 25 most played"
anyone have any suggestions it really help me out??? 😠
HP Laptop-OTHER, Windows 8
I know how to reset play counts. I found it last night and used it just now. Right click a song in your iTunes library and click Get Info. In the Details tab, hit Reset next to "play counts". I got 12.6.2, but it still should work the same.
The various reset play scripts set the playcounts back to zero. See Move your iTunes library to a new computer for the correct way to move your library from one computer to another. Do it right and all ratings, play counts, playlists and so on come too. iTunes only add tracks to the purchased list when you first purchase them on a given computer or device, however you should be able to manually add other tracks as you please.
tt2
Hi TT2,
Could you explain how this script works? I just downloaded it because I need to reset some plays of my own, but I can't get it to work. It keeps saying track was deleted. I don't see any way to choose a file to act on before it does so.
Ok, I figured it out. I think the issue was that I was looking at top 25 most played rather than a playlist that could be updated all at once.
There's one unrelated problem I need some help with. The reason I needed to reset all these plays in the first place was that I got a new computer, and I wanted my plays consistant with how I had them, and it looks like the only way to get them how I want was to reset all plays. In the time I was without a computer, I purchased half a dozen or so new songs. For some reason, when I synced my phone, they did not transfer to my computer, even though they were downloaded to my phone. It seems there used to be a quick way to download your purchased items to your computer, but I don't seem to have that in the latest iTunes.
Ok, sorry to highjack this thread. I figured out the answer to my previous question, turns out I wasn't signed into the iTunes store. I've found my downloads, but can't seem to add the newly purchased tracks to my purchased playlist. Is there a way to do this?
That's what I did, and when I powered it up on the new computer, the library was exactly how I left it on my old computer. That wasn't the issue, the issue was that in the interim, I synced my phone to my old desktop, so that computer got an updated library as well. Complicating matters was that my phone was experiencing a serious lack of storage, prompting me to remove some of the downloads from my phone. When synced, this kind of messed up my purchased playlist, and for some reason the play count on some of the new items had been reset. So, I decided to just reset everything. Now however, my purchased playlist appears to be locked, as when I right-click a song and choose add to playlist, Purchased is not one of the items listed. Could you help me figure out why that would be and help me fix that?
I don't know what exactly you're talking about. If by the playlist sidebar you mean the sidebar that shows all your playlists, that's already showing. However, when I right click to add a song to a playlist, all my other playlists show but not Purchased. Why? Also, when I edit the playlist from my phone, I do not have the option to add music either. What's going on here and how do I fix it?
Make sure you can see the Purchased playlist in the side bar. Select the tracks you want to add to it. Don't right-click, click and drag left until you're hovering over the Purchased list, then release the button.
Why Apple choose to change various behaviours of iTunes is a mystery. 😕
tt2
bobdavcav wrote:
Dragging and dropping isn't going to work for me, I need to do this using only the keyboard.
I'm not sure that is possible with the current build. I could write a script to add selected tracks to the purchased playlist if that would help. Can I check that you're running Windows?
tt2
turingtest2 wrote:
Yes, that works, but is no use if you want to reset 2 or 200 playcounts at the same time.
tt2
Okay. Then I don't know how. I didn't know how until I experimented. I only know how to reset one song, though. Sorry.
thank you for the script sir. however, i used it on my itunes and this is the message that appeared "activeX component can't create object: 'itunes.application'" microsoft VBScript Runtime error code 800A01AD. How do i work around this?
You may need to right-click and run iTunes as the administrator, or reinstall iTunes as the administrator, or lower the level of UAC settings, or temporarily disable anti-virus. Something is preventing the call from working, but I cannot tell what.
tt2
I have been able to reset plays but you have to do song by song, You have click on the three dots to the right of the song, choose "get info" and the second to the last data item is the play count with a "reset" button to the right. The play counter will go to zero if you click "reset". Manual but it'll get the job done.....eventually 🙂
Just spoke with Apple Support 5/17/16 3:40 p.m. EDT. According to the the support tech, the "Reset Plays" option has been removed from Version 12.4 by design and is not expected to be returned to this or future versions. Guess I'll try and find a 3rd party that supports that option. Thanks APPLE for thinking of your users.
How to reset music plays in the new itunes update
