Music skips since Itunes 10

I am having the same problem, I get random skips on songs, they are all within the first 10-15 seconds, and the song skips back to the beginning and then plays normal. I tried reimporting the music with the error correction on, but it had no effect, it still skips on the same song (but at a different time). I never had this problem before iTunes 10

Yup... same problem here. I have the current version of iTunes and check for an upgrade but the check confirmed that I do have the latest version. This is very annoying indeed. Wake up Apple and get a maintenance upgrade out there so we can listen to our music again.

Does anybody have skipping music on their iPod? We have a touch that skips on MP3 tracks (OK on AAC) when they are transferred from a Windows 7 32bit HP i7 laptop, but it plays MP3 tracks without skipping when they are transferred from a Windows XP desktop. Both PCs (Win7 laptop and XP desktop) play the tracks in itunes without skipping.

I've noticed this too, but it only seems to happen when I leave iTunes open for days and days at a time. Restarting iTunes fixes the problem.

I love how this thread has a 'solved' status on it...its NOT solved APPLE!!!! Music still skips!! I think its only music that is not in MP3 format - all my store purchases and CD's I brought in at a higher quality are skipping...and instead of worrying about it - they bring the Beatles into iTunes.

Got news for you apple - I'm not buying anymore music from you until you fix iTunes!

Only the original poster can mark a thread as "solved". Either his/her issue was solved or s/he got fed up with so many people hijacking the thread to post their own rants.

Yes this is truly frustrating. I downloaded 10.1 yesterday to upgrade from 10.0.1 in hopes that it would fix the problem but no... it's just as bad. I'm always hesitant to download any new versions of iTunes because it always seems to cause more issues than it solves. I just want to listen to my music but I can't because it skips. I now how to listen to my music through RealPlayer.

Thank you, I didn't realize.

I have sent feedback to Apple about my iTunes issue...I didn't realize that this forum wasn't watched/supported by their personnel.

StevenD... if you hear from Apple regarding this issue I would really appreciate if you could share it with us. Thanks!

I'm having the same exact problem. Happened when I upgraded to version 10.1.0.54. I have a Dell Computer with a single 3.2 GHZ processor 4GB of RAM, so I believe it's not a hardware issue. Especially since it worked before the upgrade. None of he solutions posted online work like setting Quick time Settings to save mode and lower the settings. or Updating Sound and Video Drivers. Whenever I am multi tasking in another program like photoshop, firefox, etc. The music skips.

I have this issue on a lenovo w500 running the newest version of iTunes 10. I have noticed it on both my 17"mbpro and 20" iMac. I haven't bothered to test this hypothesis, but I suspect it may have to do with itunes store data transfer in the background. Unfortunately, the application remains very bloated.

Just an update on music skipping on ipod touch 32gb 3G...even after visiting the genius bar and being given a new ipod, this problem still persisted when music transferred from i7 Win7 HP laptop. I loaded a different media management application (MediaMonkey)on the PC and it transfers music (including purchased tracks) that plays on the ipod touch without skipping.

I have recently purchased an iPod Nano 16GB 6G, and due to the fairly restricted capacity I ripped the music I wanted in HE-AAC 80kbps. Quality is fine (for my ears anyway) but I find that a significant number of my tracks jump when playing, and this is the same in all the cases I have tested playing back with iTunes 10.1 on the PC and on my Nano.

What happens is that the music will suddenly stop at one or more points in the file, and the player then immediately moves on to the next track. When I mention that this can happen more than once I mean that if a track jumps at say 1:30 into it, if I then replay it and drag the progress slider to 1:32 (or as near as I can get) it will then continue playing and might reach the end of the track or possibly it will jump again.

I have tried re-ripping with error correction enabled, it makes not the slightest difference. In my opinion it is either an encoding error that the decoder cannot then decode or possibly it's a decoding algorithm error that can't cope with a particular set of circumstances and since it is common to the Nano and my PC using iTunes to play the music in question I'm pretty sure that it isn't a hardware issue as an Intel i3 and an iPod Nano are rather dissimilar devices.

When I get a chance I will try playing the music on the PC using a different application and see if it plays normally.

The Nano is my first ever Apple personal purchase, and considering the price premium over the competition I would expect it and the software supporting it to be tested very heavily to ensure this sort of thing doesn't make it into the wild.

Should also mention that my Win 7 machine is using the 64 bit iTunes version.

Message was edited by: Tyrbiter

Hi Tyrbiter,

I like your idea that you are going to try a different media application to test your encoder/decoder idea. I didn't get to the bottom of our issue with Win7/iTunes/i7/ipod, but it now works well with Win7/MediaMonkey/i7/ipod. Our mp3 tracks were only skipping when played on the ipod, not when played in iTunes on the PC, and only with a Win7/i7 PC, as it was OK with an XP Pentium machine. You might also send feedback from within itunes, you might get some help that way.

I don't get why there is no official acknowledgment of this problem. iTunes streamed through an Airport network, Express line outs to stereo system, sound is intermittent, plays, then stops, then plays, then stops. I have had this problem for years and have posted repeatedly on it. This is all mp3 stuff that has been imported. Can I stream Christmas carols for family dinner? No, because the music is intermittent. The longer iTunes runs the worse it gets. So sick of this, any suggestions?