iTunes randomly mutes itself

I'm experiencing the same problem - iTunes muting itself after 1 or 2 songs. Only way to get it playing again is to purposefully choose a song...and then the cycle continues. Kind of pointless to have a playlist or have my music library on random if I get 2 songs.

Following this thread hoping someone has a suggestion.

I am also having this problem but it doesn't just mute iTunes, it's also muting all my other sounds too.

iTunes 9.0.2
OS X 10.6.2

Very strange - my iTunes is no longer auto-muting. I hesitate to say the problem is fixed, but I've been listening to music for the last 30 minutes without interruption/muting.

The only incident of note that has changed in the last few days is that I brought my Mac Air into the Apple Store in Ottawa to have the hinge and display replaced (faulty hinge is a known problem).

I didn't mention the muting problem, nor did I take note of what build of iTunes I was running before leaving the Air with them. I can't imagine they would have touched the software/OS on my computer, but, for reference, iTunes reports in as being version 9.0.2 (25). I know I was running 9.0.2 before, but hadn't noted that build number. Might be significant.

I haven't done anything else of significance that would have resolved the muting issue, but am thrilled that it seems to have been resolved.

This began happening to me a couple months ago, and is now REALLY getting on my nerves. Anyone have a solution to this "muting"? It doesn't actually "mute" anywhere in the system, it just stops emitting sound.

Always after 1 or 2 songs though. Never in the middle of a song.

Having the same problem with iTunes muting in Snow Leopard and it is driving me crazy. About every 5 minutes the volume will go mute. I then have to hit the Volume Up or Volume Down key on my keyboard to get the volume back. As mentioned before in the post "It doesn't actually "mute" anywhere in the system, it just stops emitting sound." Exactly. And only in iTunes. I am streaming from Radio Paradise but also happens with music on my machine.

Same problem here...on my desktop.
It just randomly goes silent while the tune keeps playing.
I have to click stop, then play - not much, but
when you're in the other room or doing something while listening
it's really frustrating. If I had wanted to do this, I would've put on an LP.

Rod

(iTunes 9.2.1)

Anybody having any luck with this issue? This is still happening everyday and only seems to happen in iTunes as far as I can tell. Again, I can hit the Volume Up key on my keyboard and the sound comes back on but then I need to hit the Volume Down button to get the sound back to the correct level. Literally happens every 5 or 10 minutes. Extremely annoying.

What makes this extra irritating is that
I can no longer broadcast music from my
desktop to friends and fans because the
sound usually last no longer than a few
songs and goes silent. I'm ready to go
back to my Snow Leopard disk and begin
from back then. I suppose that I'm going
to have to upgrade iTunes somewhat so I
use my iPad, but I can't really pinpoint
at what version when this problem began.
It appears to be a gradual phenomenon.

I am running the new Imac 27 and lastest version of Itunes and have the same problem. Can not play more that a few song and there is no sound either on the imac internal speakers or via airtunes. In other programs the audio works. The song time indicator is still marching along the the volume bar is at 3/4 of full. Moves to the next track, but no sound to the speakers.

Are any of you noticing slight skips within songs too?
Also, I'm considering a full clean reinstall, but I'm
fearing that it won't matter - seeing, for example,
MacInAH's comment about a new iMac with latest iTunes -
but would like to hear from someone who's licked this
problem by doing this.

Well, I guess if there's been no movement toward fixing this problem
for at least 9 months now, it seems ridiculous to keep waiting around.
Open to suggestions for a reliable media player other than iTunes.

R

Also having this problem on my MacBook Pro, but not specific to just iTunes. Intermittently, the volume icon appears and gradually the volume decreases to nothing. Often the volume icon remains (showing no vol) as though the keyboard button were continually being pressed. Attempts to turn it back up just result in it going back down again. Same if I try to turn it back up in System Prefs using the slider; its automatically reduced again. Ive reset the PRAM and run the apple hardware test, with no joy. Be interested to hear if anyone has resolved this.

BUMP

This is happening to me too. I getting sick of deleting iTunes' preference files to cure the problem for just a few minutes. Grrr.