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robgettier · Aug 14, 2002, 09:32 AM

How does this work?

I thought the play count from iPod was supposed to update iTunes when you sync? This is not happening for me. I am using 1.2.

kfchan · Aug 15, 2002, 01:07 AM

Ditto.. no synchronisation happening.. even on automatic (updates playlists) mode..

steve lied (again)

davecom · Aug 15, 2002, 12:42 PM

Same here, I thought it was fishy when the new software didn't have an option to show your play-count on the iPod. I guess we'll just have to wait for 1.3 . Anyway 1.2 was a nice surprise, not anything that we were expecting or promised at purchase time (if you bought original or last generation iPods), so lets just be happy for now.

dillerX · 02:44 PM

CORRECTION: Seems to work now. I re-set the clock, worked after that. Go figure.

robgettier · Aug 16, 2002, 11:19 AM

According to others I have spoken with, this feature does work. Two things I have noted to be true (I think):

1. It will not work if you are set up to manually update iPod. It will work if you use either auto feature (entire collection or selected playlists).

2. If you have to reset iPod (due to freezing up) before you sync, I think it may erase the memory of what was played.

I am playing my iPod all day at work today and will sync before I exercise tonight (in case it were to freeze up) and report back my experience.

If someone out there knows what the real deal is, please post the info. Thanks.

robgettier · Aug 19, 2002, 11:40 AM

No problems with syncing.

I think the problem occurs when you have to reset the iPod.

davecom · Aug 19, 2002, 11:57 AM

Originally posted by robgettier:
No problems with syncing.

I think the problem occurs when you have to reset the iPod.

No, that's not it, I've never reset my iPod in the 9 months that I've owned it.

ryudo · Aug 20, 2002, 11:34 AM

I know this is basic, so ignore me if it sounds too dumb, but I didn't see my play counts until I turned it on under "view options".

Also once you start using your play count and making smart playlists, don't ever use iTunes on macos 9 again, because it will delete your play counts and change your smart playlist to just a plain old playlist and you lose the ratings that you put on the songs.

I use four different computers, have osx on three and 9 on one. I manually update my ipod, and all three osx machines allow me to manage my ratings and view my play counts, and all three update my smart playlists when I plug in the ipod. I plug into the os9 machine once to add some songs and the old itunes wiped out my play counts and ratings and disabled my smart playlists.

hope this helps

davecom · Aug 20, 2002, 11:37 AM

Thanks for the reply, ryudo, but no OS 9 for me. If you mean the view options in iTunes, then yes I have play count turned on.

mo · Aug 21, 2002, 05:08 PM

Davecom's sig says:

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Al Gore

Actually, it was Dan Quayle, not Al Gore, who said this, and the actual quote is just slightly different. Your sig should probably read:

"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 (Reuters, 5/2/90)

davecom · Aug 21, 2002, 05:53 PM

Originally posted by mo:
Davecom's sig says:

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Al Gore

Actually, it was Dan Quayle, not Al Gore, who said this, and the actual quote is just slightly different. Your sig should probably read:

"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 (Reuters, 5/2/90)

I can assure you that both Al Gore said this very quote as it was he who said it to my cousin who worked for his campaign. However, it was due time for a new signature anyway, so I changed it. Interesting that Dan Quayle has said the same. Somebody once told me that George Bush said this too.

mo · Aug 21, 2002, 06:02 PM

Originally posted by davecom:

I can assure you that both Al Gore said this very quote as it was he who said it to my cousin who worked for his campaign. However, it was due time for a new signature anyway, so I changed it. Interesting that Dan Quayle has said the same. Somebody once told me that George Bush said this too.

That is interesting. FYI (I guess this is getting really off topic), the Urban Legends Reference pages (Snopes.com), a very reliable source, has devoted a section to things Dan Quayle has famously said and things he didn't actually say (but people alleged he said), and it offers this note before the quotes it says are confirmed Quayle-isms:

"Dan Quayle has certainly made more than his share of misstatements, and most of the ones on the following list are actual Quayle quotes (although versions of this list with all the quotes mischievously attributed to Vice-President Al Gore and Texas governor George W. Bush also circulate around the Internet)."

see: http://198.64.129.160/quotes/quayle.htm

Anyway, it seems at least possible that some Quayle quotes have later been attributed to Bush and Gore.

My favorite Quayle-ism remains: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

davecom · Aug 21, 2002, 06:16 PM

Originally posted by mo:

That is interesting. FYI (I guess this is getting really off topic), the Urban Legends Reference pages (Snopes.com), a very reliable source, has devoted a section to things Dan Quayle has famously said and things he didn't actually say (but people alleged he said), and it offers this note before the quotes it says are confirmed Quayle-isms:

"Dan Quayle has certainly made more than his share of misstatements, and most of the ones on the following list are actual Quayle quotes (although versions of this list with all the quotes mischievously attributed to Vice-President Al Gore and Texas governor George W. Bush also circulate around the Internet)."

see: http://198.64.129.160/quotes/quayle.htm

Anyway, it seems at least possible that some Quayle quotes have later been attributed to Bush and Gore.

My favorite Quayle-ism remains: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

Intriguing indeed. I contacted my cousin just a couple minutes ago and it seems I misunderstood. It was a different quote that Al Gore told my cousin. When my cousin was telling me this other quote that he read online it seems I thought he mean't that Al Gore said it to him. Damn ultra-right conspiracy seems to be making up Al Gore quotes online.