Whenever I am using flash for example while I am playing Facebook games Itunes sounds like a CD that is skipping horribly. Anyone else have this problem?
I have the same problem. I thought it was my (old) computer. I only seem to have music skip when I am loading a webpage or opening a file, my videos have always skipped.
I've started listening to my iPod while on the computer and just using iTunes to make playlists for it, really a shame as I like iTunes DJ.
I have gone through 3 ipod touch-ies since the day after christmas... bought one, loaded it all up... first time listening the songs would just stop or there would be blank spaces in them. Tried re-syncing and restoring/updating... still did it, if I deleted a specific song with the problem and dropped it onto the ipod it would usually work after... but that ***** to do... So I returned it for another Ipod touch, same thing! So I figured what are the odds, two crap ipods? Got a third one... still doing it only this one is worse than the other two, why i don't know... this one does less of the cutting out, but many more songs skip like a cd skipping or have sound blips.
anyway, long story short, I ruled out everything i could, the usb ports are fine... all the updates are done, the music plays on my old ipod, plays on the computer... etc, this issue is with MP3 and the music I bought from itunes. I called apple and the guy was like, sorry I have no clue, sounds like when they are synced from itunes when they transfer to the ipod the music is being corrupt.
I think it is some kind of itunes to ipod touch issue... Apple needs to fix this, it is bull, I paid 300 bucks for a music player that can't play music.
Im going to try media monkey to see if I can get the music on the thing and working. Otherwise I don't know what to do. I spent a lot of money for no reason, I am so disappointed, and to think I could have bought groceries or something useful with that money.
OMG... it works my music plays... I used media monkey instead, problem solved... i-tunes just *****. Someone should probably think about fixing it, would be nice to use the program intended to work with the ipod and purchased music. What a bunch of bums 😉 so I kind of didn't waste 300 bucks after all.
After updating to iTunes 10.1.1, with Quicktime 7.6.9, the tracks which previously "skipped" on my laptop now do not appear to do so. That suggests that something about the decoding was at fault, but of course the same thing still happens on the Nano so that suggests the encoding is at fault.
I will now try re-ripping the problematic tracks (or at least a significant subset of them) and then re-sync the Nano. If that cures it for the tracks I know do this on every play, then I'll have to re-rip everything that didn't work correctly, else there must be something else wrong.
Anyone know if there is any codec downloaded to the iPod when syncing? I don't think so, I assume it's in the firmware or hardcoded into the chips used, but I might be wrong.
HELLO??? Apple? You make the best stuff. But, long ago you made a mistake in promoting your computers. So, many of us have PCs. So sorry. But, we now also have multiple iPods and iPhones that need to snyc with and work with PCs. I have 176 gig of music and cannot listed to in using my cool Bose speakers that are pluggede into my PC. Uh. Can you tell me what to do to keep songs from skipping/jumping/scatching (whatever it is called in technical media. The songs don't flipping play cleanly.
I've unistalled and reinstalled per Apple support instructions. I've reset Audio Output to 99.00000 and set to Safe Mode. I am running XP and have tons of RAM. Tons.
Thos is clearly a software issue. I wasted money on Bose and loading all my music into iTunes as I cannot listen to it. So, I plug into an old JBL donut and go with the flow as I like tons while I work.
Crazy. Steve J, do you have this problem too? Oh, you can afford a big fancy MAC, so no problermo for you. You are jopiing the ranks of Larry at Oracle and Bil;l at MSFT...crap products. Sorry to be blunt, but no worries as you will never read.
I think the reason your nano is still skipping is because it synched the corrupted data from your pc. The song files should be intact, but the shortcuts to playing them is corrupted.
Try this....bottom right, right click and open task manager. Then make sure iTunes is running....click on processes tab, image name to sort...itunes.exe...right click and make itunes a higher priority. It worked for me.
I have a 3 week old IMac . . everything else is super. But itunes (and the new itunes 10) skips when i play tracks in the itunes player. Thats any track, downloaded or from a CD.
Absolutely maddening!
Sort this out Apple and look after your loyal costumers by at least acknowledging th problem.
I'm having the same problem and an extra one. I play my music and when it gets to like the last 8 secs of the somg it decides to end the song and play the next one. I play the songs on other plays and they play fully. What is going on?
I am also having the same problem, a year since this post first started! Why have they not fixed this glitch? It is SO very annoying. Doesn't matter what I am doing on my computer, it skips incessantly. I can't stand it. I want a version of iTunes that doesn't skip. Like another person said, if I wanted to hear skipping, I'd use a scratched CD or drive along a bumpy road in my car.... Boo. 😟
Hi, I was having similar problems to the posts (WinXP and iTunes 10.2.11).
However, by increasing the privilege given to iTunes to run under WinXP to "real-time" it solved the issue and the skipping stopped. I did this by right-clicking on the iTunes.exe in Windows process monitor logged on with admin rights and setting the privilege to be the highest and ignoring the warnings + I also made sure there was plenty of free disk space so there were no swap file issues.
I can live this for now as I'm not using the computer for much else but its not a great solution if I was running lots on the PC ... still works for now
I am having the same skipping "audio dropout" problem on every track played through iTunes (tracks are fine when transferred to another computer) since the 10.6 update. However, this is on Mac OSX, which suggests your problems (if the same), are caused by iTunes itself, rather than merely Windows working poorly with iTunes due to any updates.
I have the same problems on my Mac Mini, and it doesn't matter whether I'm in iTunes or watching a movie on Netflix in Safari; same random audio dropout problem. I had it fixed, but when I updated to the latest version of iTunes it came back and the old fix doesn't help anymore. For me it only happens when using external speakers; if I switch to internal speakers the songs (or movies) play fine.
