Importing to iTunes adds time to certain tracks.

This appears to be a long standing problem with iTunes that doesn’t seem to have a solution - at least I couldn’t find one.

I recorded a vinyl album into my iMac. All the songs are exactly as they should be, time wise, except one- it’s a track that times at 4:16 according to that track listing on the album and on Wikipedia. When I look at the physical waveform in Adobe Audition, it times out at 4:16.

Heres where is get weird.

if I open the mp3 file, which is 7.2 mb, in QuickTime player, the file length becomes 5:36 with 1:20 seconds of silence tagged on the end.

If I import the same mp3 into iTunes, the file becomes 29:30 in length. If I Cmd + I the track in iTunes an change the Options>Stop time to 4:16, the track stops before the song ends - or so it seems. The import process, for some unknown reason, copies sections of the song and randomly pasted them together to fill up the 29:30 length. However If I play the song in iTunes and let it track it sometimes ends where it is supposed to at 4:16 and ignores whatever comes after. One other quirk: in Finder if I Cmd+I the file, the readout lists the play time as 7:34.

Any thoughts?