Of course, you could also just use the old library to identify wrong play counts and adjust them in the new library. Hold down SHIFT while you open Itunes (first press SHIFT, keep holding it down, then open Itunes).Itunes will ask you which Itunes library you want to open, click “Choose Library”, then click the folder “Previous Itunes Libraries”.Bring up the i Tunes preferences under Edit - Preferences, and go to the “Devices” tab.Check “Disable automatic syncing for all i Phones and i Pods”.This guide is intended to guide a user through syncing any Apple portable device including all i Pod versions including the i Pod touch, i Phone, i Pod shuffle, and i Pod nano.Following the steps below will allow you to sync your music from Media Monkey to your device while allowing you to continue to use i Tunes to sync your picture and video without interfering with any of your music files.Leave “Manually manage music and videos” checked as below: Uncheck “Sync music” as below Check “Sync photos from:” and choose the applicable options for you.Alternatively, you could leave this unchecked (to not sync any photos).

Match your settings to the settings shown below for maximum compatibility with i Pod devices: When using an i Pod rather than an i Phone or i Touch, there will be an option to "Force i Tunes style folders". Hit the i Pod button in the toolbar (right next to the config drop down menu you clicked earlier.Album art and lyrics will be synced correctly for all i Pod versions that support those features, and ratings as well as playcounts should be synced back to your MM database when Auto-synchronization is used.This guide was written using an i Phone as an example but it is mainly the same for other i Pods, although there are different plugins depending on your i Pod model.This is the tricky part, so back up your files before editing them. One way to correct the wrong playcount is to open a previous Itunes library and adjust the playcounts manually.I haven't verified that there's absolutely no data loss with this method, but my library appeared fully intact when I tested it with i Tunes 11 on OS X 10.8. You could load the old library (which in my case is pretty similar to the new one, since it is only 1 month old) and manually adjust the playcounts (by playing the songs an extra number of times) and also manually adjust newly added songs etc.