If all you want to do is 'mark albums played' you could consider using labels for that.
Other than that, you can select wanted songs from playlist, right-click 'Song Properties', click 'Select fields' from bottom left of dialog and choose 'playcount'. You should now be able to set them individually for songs, so not very nice if you have a lot of songs. I believe this is also only possible if you have less than 1000 songs selected, so if If you need to change more, just do it in parts.