Music doesn't increment play count / last played for the last song of a playlist / album

Still and issue in December on Sonoma 14.1 and a new iMac. It is also an issue with albums and not only playlists - seems to be any case where something is the "last song". I use play counts obsessively so this issue really gets to me. I reported the bug as well.

This affects all my playlists, no matter if the music is downloaded or imported from a CD, etc. The work around I'm using is 1) create an audio file (mp3, aiff, m4a, doesn't matter) with 1 second of silence. 2) add that to the end of each playlist.

Ridiculous to have to do this, but it works. You can copy it (cmd-c) and just add it to each playlist with cmd-v.

I suggest that everyone who notices this problem report the bug: Feedback - macOS - Apple

Apple probably won't bother to fix it, but maybe if hundreds of people report it, someone at Apple will notice and get it fixed.

won't fix your problem, but the counts will be right.

Tried this: clean install of Sonoma 14.0, nothing else installed. The last song play count works only without Lossless Audio Quality and without Airplay. I mean, from Ventura on.

That's insane.

A little trick can be found here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254328352?answerId=258550351022#258550351022

I have had the same issue for a while now. I have several playlists that depend on the "last played" field to populate the list; after each song is played, it removes itself from the list when its "last played" field is updated. But, when the list reaches the last song, it plays the song but it does not increase the "plays" field and the "last played" field's value does not change.

I wish I could say for certain when this problem began, but—for me—this has been around for a long time now—well before 13.4. It may even predate Ventura for me.

I'm currently running 13.4 and Music 1.3.5.8 on an 14" M1 MBP.

I've been getting this for a while as well.

I can't be absolutely definitive about it, but most of the affected albums are those downloaded from Apple Music.

If you've got another album selected then the first one will have all its play counts updated correctly, the second one may not have its last track updated.

I've reported it as a bug.

Problem has been around for years so I don't expect Apple to fix it any time soon, which seems a bit ridiculous.