iTunes not updating Playcount

I've read that Mohave is out, but my Software Update doesn't show it as an option yet. (My iMac is 2013, so it should be compatible). I had updates for Xcode and Pages and Keynote Sunday.

Mojave will not show as a Software Update. You need to buy it in the App store.

I find it annoying that this still hasn't been fixed for High Sierra and iTunes 12.8.

I just think this is a bug, not intentional.

Playing via computer speakers or streaming to an Airplay 1 device updates the playcount, streaming to an Airplay 2 devices does not.

If I stream from an iPad to an Airplay 2 device the playcount from the track on the iPad is updated.

IOS 12 did not fix this.

It still doesn't mark my podcast played when it is streamed both places.

While listening to a podcast, today, I told my HomePod to sing a song. It did - and the podcast on my Mac got very, very loud.

Why would an IOS update fix this? The playcount not updating is an iTunes problem. So I am hoping that the problem will be fixed when we get iTunes 12.9 next week.

Same problem. When playing iTunes with my MacBook Air through the Home Pod, it only occasionally updated last played and song count. If I play iTunes through MBA, it updates automatically.