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Q: Song playback cut off early

Hi,

 

After the most recent update (12.3.0.44) I have some albums where many songs get cut off early when I try to play them back.

 

Is anyone else experiencing this? I saw some recent posts that lead me to think this is a new bug.

 

I searched and saw that in past years some people point to bad gapless playback information, but the only solutions I saw were to try creating a new library and re-importing the old one. I have a library of over 10,000 songs with ratings and smart playlists so I am hesitant to do this -- especially if it is an open bug.

 

Thanks for any help,

Alex

iTunes, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 6:33 PM

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  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Sep 30, 2015 11:47 AM in response to abuckiew
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    Sep 30, 2015 11:47 AM in response to abuckiew

    Also these songs play all the way through when listening on my iPhone.

  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Oct 4, 2015 4:04 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Oct 4, 2015 4:04 PM in response to abuckiew

    Seems like this is happening for music I have added to my library after the latest upgrade.

     

    Looking like I will have to remove all the files from my library, revert to the last iTunes version before adding stuff on.

     

    Very annoying problem.

  • by abuckiew,Solvedanswer

    abuckiew abuckiew Oct 23, 2015 6:36 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Oct 23, 2015 6:36 PM in response to abuckiew

    For anyone that had this problem, it seems to be fixed in 12.3.1.23, but since the bug was while adding files to the iTunes library you need to re-add everything added since the 12.3.0.44 update, otherwise they'll still cut off early.

  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Oct 24, 2015 3:49 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Oct 24, 2015 3:49 PM in response to abuckiew

    I spoke too soon. The problem isn't occurring on the songs I was using to test, so there is some improvement, but I'm still having this issue with other songs.

  • by SunnyDaze,

    SunnyDaze SunnyDaze Nov 4, 2015 11:09 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Nov 4, 2015 11:09 PM in response to abuckiew

    I've had the same problem with particular songs in my library that end suddenly and skip to the next track, going back several versions of iTunes  & operating systems. When I play the same song files on VLC or Quicklook, they play normally, so the problem seems to be rooted in iTunes. The skip persists when I add the same files to my iPod. I tried checking the start/stop time option in the song info, but the settings would revert to unchecked and the skip would remain the next time I played the file.

     

    But.. I found a fix that is working consistently! I converted the skipping files to AAC (from Mp3) using iSonics and re-added them to iTunes, and no more skipping. I left all settings the same such as bit rate & sample rate, so that seems unrelated. It's odd that only some files from the same album/rip are affected. It may not be practical to try and covert all the songs in a library, but for me, I'll just fix files as I come across them.

  • by TheGuyintheProjectionBooth,

    TheGuyintheProjectionBooth TheGuyintheProjectionBooth Nov 21, 2015 3:35 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Nov 21, 2015 3:35 PM in response to abuckiew

    It's not fixed in 12.3.1.23. I was running v11.4 in 10.5.7, 10.6.8, 10.9.5 10.10.5 and 10.11.x, the last of the great iTunes players, and started getting errors when trying to use sharing and the stores in the later OS's. So since I started running Beta 12.3.1.23 in Beta 10.11.x and it seemed OK, I thought I would try it in 10.10.5. BIG MISTAKE! Going from 11.4 to 12.3.1.23 I lost Gapless and links to 27,000 tracks and I can't revert using the old methods that we could. So if it is as you are saying a bug from 12.3.0.44, I don't think that's all of it . . .

  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Nov 24, 2015 11:24 AM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth
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    Nov 24, 2015 11:24 AM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth

    Yeah, I think it still hasn't been resolved. I can only find the bug on files added to my library since the beginning of September so I think it is in all of the last few versions. I found there is something about songs longer than 5:22 where the skipping starts at that moment in the song exactly.

     

    No joke it makes me consider ditching the whole iPhone/OS X ecosystem since Apple seems to have given up on anything but Beats, etc.

  • by HRPuckinfutz,

    HRPuckinfutz HRPuckinfutz Dec 28, 2015 10:55 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Dec 28, 2015 10:55 PM in response to abuckiew

    I found a simple solution for this.  All the songs I was having an issue with had the m4p extension. I changed the extension to m4a, which I did not actually expect to work, and my issues with the songs stopped. They all started playing to completion without any loss of quality.

  • by TheGuyintheProjectionBooth,

    TheGuyintheProjectionBooth TheGuyintheProjectionBooth Dec 29, 2015 12:45 AM in response to HRPuckinfutz
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    Dec 29, 2015 12:45 AM in response to HRPuckinfutz

    Did you re-sample the tracks or just change the extension?

  • by HRPuckinfutz,

    HRPuckinfutz HRPuckinfutz Dec 29, 2015 2:16 AM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth
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    Dec 29, 2015 2:16 AM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth

    I simply changed the extension, nothing else. Worked for me.

  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Feb 21, 2016 2:54 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Feb 21, 2016 2:54 PM in response to abuckiew

    Changing the extension didn't do anything to help this issue.

     

    Sometimes if I remove the tracks and re-add them to the library they will play though but most of the time that doesn't work either.

  • by Stince Vaples,

    Stince Vaples Stince Vaples Mar 2, 2016 11:08 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Mar 2, 2016 11:08 PM in response to abuckiew

    Yeah I have found that deleting and re-importing song-by-song only works sometimes. But that wouldn't be a reasonable long-term solution anyway, would it?

     

    I have seen this problem posted to the forums a lot over many years, so I do not think it is a problem with recent versions of iTunes.

     

    Many people propose something along the lines of deleting and re-importing all songs, or re-encoding all songs, etc. But... I don't know about you, but my library is 16,500 songs (not even as big as many others) and that is waaaay impractical.

     

    I haven't noticed any commonality among the skipping songs. They are all of various file types, encoded differently, etc. I have tried dragging and dropping in batches, dragging and dropping individually, highlighting groups of ten songs and hitting Enter... I have tried editing the "end time" of songs, but even if that were to work, it is one of those song-by-song band-aids.

     

    I have no solution and the problem manifests itself in a completely random way.

     

    I am thinking long and hard about switching to foobar...

  • by Stince Vaples,

    Stince Vaples Stince Vaples Mar 2, 2016 11:13 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Mar 2, 2016 11:13 PM in response to abuckiew

    My question for everyone: are any of you using an imported iTunes library file? Mine was imported many months ago using a .xml file, maybe in early fall 2015. However, I did not encounter this playback problem until late December 2015.

  • by TheGuyintheProjectionBooth,

    TheGuyintheProjectionBooth TheGuyintheProjectionBooth Mar 3, 2016 1:21 AM in response to abuckiew
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    Mar 3, 2016 1:21 AM in response to abuckiew

    Have done some re-adding and still doesn't work. At one time iTunes made music incredible and was the only thing one would think of using. Now that it has trashed my rather large collection, just to get things back to the old days, I would gladly dump iTunes and go with another player. That is if Apple doesn't get things fixed soon.

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