iTunes was playing up; it wouldn't show my wish list or purchases. So I signed out and in again. No joy. I changed Safari from block all cookies to allow cookies for this website. My content appeared again in iTunes. For my films and TV programmes, all Last Played metadata was deleted and all Play Counts set to 1, except for my non-iTunes content, which was preserved. I keep everything in the cloud to save space on my iMac.
This is not the first time this has happened. I give up on trusting Apple. It's annoying, as I was sorting when I watched stuff according to Play Counts, but I’ll have to abandon that approach and try something else. Perhaps I’ll just make a note of Play Counts separately.
How is it that Apple makes over $50 billion a year, yet still manages to ruin years of metadata? I despair of Apple ever fixing this bug, as it has existed for years. I've even manually changed Play Counts with an Apple script, but it still got wiped out. At least my music seems to be untouched.
This is not the first time this has happened. I give up on trusting Apple. It's annoying, as I was sorting when I watched stuff according to Play Counts, but I’ll have to abandon that approach and try something else. Perhaps I’ll just make a note of Play Counts separately.
How is it that Apple makes over $50 billion a year, yet still manages to ruin years of metadata? I despair of Apple ever fixing this bug, as it has existed for years. I've even manually changed Play Counts with an Apple script, but it still got wiped out. At least my music seems to be untouched.