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Reset Plays no longer available?

Is anyone else noticing the "Reset Plays" option removed from iTunes 12.6? I am not seeing it available, either from Menu or right-click.

As usual with iTunes, the feature is still there, only creatively hidden in a new place. Open the Get Info window (select the track and type Command-I). Near the bottom, you'll see the play count, and adjacent to that, a Reset button.

As far as I can tell, "skips" are no longer being tracked. But who knows.

Richard, the 'new place' you mention has always been there.  The bulk track reset is gone.  I'm sure most people would agree, Apple needs to put that back as no one has time to reset plays on single songs.  Reset a group of fifty or reset fifty one at a time.

@sabarret1, yes the bulk reset is what's been yanked. I'm guessing it has something to do with the complexities of syncing play counts across multiple devices, something that has never been really clean, or accurate for that matter. I guess the single song reset or some other workaround is the best we can do for now.

If you want to reset the plays for a batch of tracks then here is a short AppleScript to replace the missing reset plays feature. In addition it clears any skips, or bookmark position and the last played and skipped dates. You can comment out any of the actions that you don't want.

Copy and paste into the script editor, save it as LastPlayedNever in ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts. Select one or more tracks and call the script from the scripts menu in iTunes.

-- LastPlayedNever - V1.0 - © Steve MacGuire - 2016-05-18

tell application "iTunes"

if selection is not {} then

set mySelection to selection

repeat with aTrack in mySelection

set played count of aTrack to 0

set played date of aTrack to missing value

set skipped count of aTrack to 0

set skipped date of aTrack to missing value

if aTrack is bookmarkable then set bookmark of aTrack to 0

end repeat

end if

end tell

tt2

But the complexities of play counts really don't come into play (see what I did there), as it's a simple 'reset to zero'.  They did the same thing a couple upgrades ago and then brought it back in a minor update.  It's also happened before with "check for duplicates" and a few other items, too.

Where is "call the script from the scripts menu in iTunes" found/located in iTunes 12.6.1.25? (Need step-by-step

directions, please.)

Hi Allen,

As shown in tt2's screenshot above, the Scripts menu is identified by a little scroll symbol that appears up at the top of the screen between Window and Help, but only after you've installed something in the folder ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts.

You may need to create this folder, if it doesn't exist. Start by opening the Library folder: go to the Finder, tap on the Go menu, then hold down the Option (or Alt) key, which will cause Library to appear in the menu that drops down. From there you can find a subfolder called iTunes and make a new folder called Scripts inside there.

Cheers

Thanks Richard.

You can also run the script directly from the Script Editor if you don't want to bother messing around inside the ~/Library folder. I just tried it now on a new system and I had a hard time doing it from the Save dialog in Script Editor. In the end I gave up and put the file on my desktop, then used Finder to make the folders and move the script into the correct place.

tt2

Ahhh! Found it and script works. Thanks to all. 

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Apple Support Communities Updates <

You're welcome.

tt2

Awesomeness in a terse little scrip. Awesomeness is You, TuringTest2. Terse TuringTest2 Scrip= T4? ;-) Mil Grazie and Gratitude! Very annoying when a feature is (re)moved. What we wouldn't do without the persistent programming capable folks!? Best, ME

Prego. Glad you've found it useful.

tt2

How do you do this on a PC?

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