My iTunes used to work fine, but today it started doing this. Whenever I'll play a song (this affects probably 1/5 songs), it'll start normally. Then, when there are about 30 seconds left, it'll skip to the next song without playing the last 30 seconds. It's really annoying and I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Also, I updated iTunes and restarted my computer and it's still doing it.
That happened to me and what I did was delete the song from my computer and redownloaded it from itunes store...the new cloud service where all your purchased music is kept. The song played all the way through like it should 🙂
I've had the same problem, and you should be able to fix it without having to go through the additional expense of iTunes in the Cloud. Right/command-click the song and select "Show in Finder" so that you know where on your hard disk it's kept. Back in iTunes, right/command-click it again and select "Delete", it will ask you if you're sure you want to remove it from your library say yes, when it asks if you want to keep the file or move it to the trash, select keep file. Then go to iTunes > File > Library > Add to Library and locate the song on your hard disk. It should now play all the way through.
I was having this problem as well. I fixed it by forcing iTunes to rebuild its database.
The songs that iTunes was cutting short should play normally.
This worked perfectly for me. Thanks!
Fixed my problem as well! Thanks!
The method described here deletes your ratings. I see at least 5% of my song library has this problem (it's probably much more, but I only notice this when it cuts off a 4 or 5 star rated song).
From other posts I've read, it appears that the problem occurs as you copy/move your purchased music from one CD to another. As years go by, every user has to upgrade PCs... I know I've got lots of music purchased five or more years ago that have migrated from one PC to another to another.
This is just an unacceptable behavior. Only Apple could make MS Windows Media Player look good.
Tried this but songs seem to be corrupt at file location. Convereted to mp3 and Windoze Media Player stops audio at the same spot that iTunes goes to the next song. Affects only some songs on one album so far... seems that songs did not download properly.... song length counter is correct but actual length is not. I suppose that i'll try to download one song and see if it delivers correctly or if it is a store problem...
I've since deleted one of the corrupt tunes and downloaded it again from Apple... got ~20 seconds more but the song is still corrupt and cuts off too soon. Seems it's Apples database that's bad. NOW what do i do?
Try the procedure I outlined again, making sure to empty the Trash after you've deleted the existing iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml files.
It took me a couple of tries on one of my machines that had this problem.
Hi, I am having the exact same problem with my new laptop. However all my music files are backed up onto an external drive. Do I need to import them in order to carry out the method you suggest. The itunes Media folder on my laptop's hard drive is obviously empty.
Thanks.
Same problem here on iTunes 11.1, Mavericks.😢
I've noticed the affected songs, those are playing incompletely on iTunes are actually playing very well on my iPad mini (?!) 😐 😐
This 'phenomena' was present only with downloaded MP3 files... 😐
I just found this: http://triq.net/mp3sar/mp3-scan-repair-mac-os-x-release-1-0
So I've fixed the 'affected' MP3 files with this simple app: First I've deleted the affected the MP3 files on iTunes, and trash 'em, the fixed the original MP3 files with the app before to be imported back again on my iTunes library and it works very well!! 😁 It's better to fix one MP3 at a time, and add it to iTunes one at a time as well, this app not gonna fix lots of MP3 at once.
Never move files directly iTunes <-> pen drive, always do a stopover in Finder
iTunes is cutting songs short
