iTunes 10.5 cutting off music?

I was having problems with many of my older purchased songs getting cut off near the end, and the solution @joyofsoy suggested worked! So I just followed the directions he posted about re-importing your XML iTunes library, and I haven't encountered any problems so far.

Thanks heaps, Rin 187, changing import settings to MP3 worked for me 🙂

Thanks joyofsoy. I tried your first solution and it worked. Delete the songs to the trash. Close itunes. Re-open then go to purchases. This time didn't show "downloaded", but the little cloud icon, and downloaded again, and they play fine. Only 630 songs left to go...

Thank you joyofsoy! I was having the same issue after upgrading to a new operating system, and going crazy trying to figure this out...your idea worked!

I have a toshiba laptop and don't see an option button on my computer. I'm assuming it's on a mac. Is there any way to use this fix with a windows 7 laptop that's not a mac?

reading your post convinces me that I am not insane; I have to thank you. I am having the exact problem with the same album. I noticed it for the first time last night. I can't seem to replicate the problem with other songs/albums - though I have a pretty large library and I'm too annoyed with Apple and refuse to search through it to in an effort to analyze and solve what I believe is their problem.

I recently moved this library to a newly-purchased Mac Mini and I used a Firewire external hard disk in the process. I can't be sure that the files are not corrupted, but I suspect that they are not. the media portion of a corrupted file would probably not play at all. The metadata seems fine, that is, the song start and end times seem correct. So, I can only conclude that there is a bug that Apple needs to fix!

Mine is doing a similar thing and it has only just happened and nothing has changed about my mac settings and I haven't downloaded anything new. I noticed it after using headphones, when I took the headphones out it seemed to be stuck on mute and wouldnt turn up or down. I restarted my mac and it seemed okay but then when I was listening to a playlist (a playlist I listen to at least once a day) it started cutting off the songs for a few seconds and then would re connect them, as though when you're listening to music in a car using a lead and it cuts out due to a faulty wire, (its doing it right now as I type) I can hear it trying to re connect and then the song carries on.

Right now I am listening to a brand new album, first time listened to and imported into itunes fresh from the case.

This mac is only about 14 months old, I am not happy!

It has only just started doing this and it is doing it non stop! 😟

Please help!

Yours sounds like an entirely different issue. Perhaps you can re-read the other posts on this thread and tell me if you disagree. Your issue seems more like a hardware issue, perhaps with the connector. Apple does some pretty sophisticated things with the volume control when you connect and disconnect headphones. The resultant behavior may be a fault with your machine or it may just be an undersirable behavior.

I'm having the same ridiculous problem. What a pain in the ***. I refuse to go through my 80 gig library and delete songs, and re-import my library. This should be fixed by Apple, not by me wasting hours of my time. Thanks to everyone who has provided possible solutions, but they mainly sound like a waste of time; there should be a much simpler solution.

so... what is the process for getting Apple to recognize what is clearly their problem and to fix it? When I've had problems with items I've downloaded from iTunes before, I would report it and they would usually allow me to re-download it. In this case, they've left it for us to sort out since we can go to the cloud to retrieve these assets. What's needed is for them to search our libraries and to detect problems and fix them. One assumes they monitor these forums, but on this issue, I've seen no response!

From what I've seen from different forums, this issue has existed in some form for 3 years now. Apple even posted a solution, if it is only happening on one device-update it to the latest iTunes. As we have seen that doesn't help as iPods are also affected after a sync with the computer.

A solution which is likely for me on this computer is lack of RAM and space for files. Apparently someone found this could interfer with iTunes, which would make sense as was both of the recently purchased albums that are struggling with it's songs. I don't think that's the cure all, but a likely culprit.

Someone else suggested a downloaded program running in conflict and messing with iTunes settings, which means clear your temp file and go through your programs and look for unused programs that don't look important (i.e. email programs when everyone who uses the computer uses webmail). Just use caution in what you remove.

I'm also trying running a full computer scan in case a virus is messing with things. You never know really.

My personal question is to which albums/songs seem to be hit, are they the most recent downloads? Mine are...

I am having this same problem. The way I figured it out before reading any of these posts was I moved the corrupted song to trash, deleting it off my itunes. I then took the song outta the trash and dropped it back into itunes. It then played the entirety. Hope this helps. I have yet to cluster all corrupted songs songs together to mass delete then re-intall. So far, just one by one. But its worked so far. Still discovering which songs are short. (And ******* me off something terrible when discovering this!!)

I Tried This And It Did Work!!!! Thanks

Moving corrupted songs into trash … deleting them in ITunes … and reinstalling back into iTunes … does solve the problem! Thank you. Listen to all 5300 of my songs and fixing the corrupted files … no thanks.

GOODBYE ITunes and the need to own music … HELLO music streaming services!

There is a glitch or something going around. 😝 Just email the apple support and tell them about your problem. I got all my money refunded back.