Being iTunes user, especially if you have a mountain of songs in hand, it's usual to filter out all of them by sorting the Play Count in descending order.
In this case, a song with the most Play Count will appear on the top of the lists. You can trick iTunes so that your favorite song will appear on the first rank which of course has the most counts.
How to Increase Play Count Drastically
First of all, select your favorite song. After that, call up the contextual menu (Control-Click) and choose Get Info. Then, click on the Options tab.
Inside here, I believe you could see the checkboxes labelled Start Time and Stop Time. This song will start from the time specified by Start Time and end at the time specified by Stop Time.
Play Count will be increased when the song is finished playing. Why don't we try to change the Start Time to certain value so that the song will end in a split second after it's started?
For example, if the Stop Time is 4:03.644, set the Start Time to 4:03.643. Now, you could sit back and watch the Play Count dancing in front of your eyes.
P.S.
Don't forget to turn on the Repeat button for one song.
6 COMMENTS (RSS)
NichM
December 23rd, 2007 Time: 12:42 AM
I also remember using an Applescript to do this... However this way works too. Well there isn't much point of it, unless you want to impress your friends so either way works :D
Wendy
December 23rd, 2007 Time: 12:52 AM
When I showed this to my friends, they responded, "Omg~ Are you crazy?" without knowing the fact that I use a simple trick. lol
twood
December 26th, 2007 Time: 09:44 PM
i'll try this. thanks
Michael
January 9th, 2008 Time: 01:27 AM
I won't try this, it's stupid. if the song truly IS a favorite, it will be at the top already. just my $0.02 -m-
Dennis
January 26th, 2008 Time: 09:00 PM
You saved my day man!! There is a point for this and it´s not stupid. When you find a better quality version of your favorite track and replace the old version, the track count is 0. This is very irritating when you make smart playlists based on different tags, e.g play count. Thank you for the tip.
Mirabelle
August 16th, 2008 Time: 01:48 AM
Thanks you very much that's very smart! I've been looking for a way to increase the play count on some of my songs for a long time!
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