iTunes wont play some mp3's

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iTunes wont play some mp3's

i just recently moved my music from my old computer to my new one. and when i uploaded the music into itunes it said i had only about 1,000 songs, however i know that there are over 3,000 songs in the folder and thats how many were listed on my old comp.

so i browsed through the files and found that some of the files wont play in itunes (all files are mp3). the files wont play in foobar either, but they do play in vlc.

any suggestions on how to get the files to play in itunes would be great

thank you

Windows XP

Posted on Aug 11, 2008 12:03 AM

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Answer 1

polydorus

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Aug 11, 2008 3:36 AM in response to miningold

iTunes is very fussy about ID3 tags and will not play files that other players can play. iTunes should work OK with ID3 v2.2 and v2.3 if you can tell which version your tags are.

AM I right in thinking that these files will play in some other players?

Abyway you could try fixing the MP3 tags, here are some possibilities, but I would experiment on a copy of a file.

Tag repair tool:
http://www.drtag.de/en/description_mp3rt.htm
MP3 Tag Studio also claims repair capabilities & one user did manage to repair non playing files with it.
http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/

Remove iD3 tags
http://www.marre.org/id3remover/

Foobar2000 has tag removal and add capabilities
http://www.foobar2000.org/

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miningold Author

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Aug 11, 2008 10:27 AM in response to polydorus

I figured out the problem. when i moved the music over i changed all the .m4a extensions to .mp3 because i didnt think that .m4a would play on vlc or foobar. and when i changed them they worked on vlc so i thought it was fine.

however, i changed a few songs back to .m4a and all three: itunes, foobar, and vlc can play it. so i am just going to recopy the files and leave them as .m4a

thanks for the advice though

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Answer 3

Oct 10, 2008 10:44 AM in response to miningold

i got a CD recently from I Am Ghost... two of the songs, both mp3s, wont play... how do i check the ID3 tags?

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