Songs on iTunes skipping/jumping

Same problem. Songs will abruptly skip to next track, typically in last minute of song. When replaying the song, it will skip every time in exactly the same place. Files play perfectly in other apps like Quicktime.

Happens with new songs purchased both via itunes store and Google Play - all have been downloaded, not ripped, so not a problem with disc quality or ripping process. (Might happen with older songs too - haven't tried to listen to my older music lately.)

I'm experiencing the same problems. I am running the most current versions of all software etc. but some songs, while playing on iTunes on my Macbook Pro, will skip to the end of the song at the exact same time every time it's replayed. If I scrub just past the time where it skips it plays all the way through. I've tried reimporting and converting the file same problem. When I import the songs to my iPhone 5s they play fine and all the way through. If I play them one any other music player Quicktime, VLC, etc. they play fine. Songs are all stored on my main HD. Start and stop times are correct on all songs. Would love to find a solution to this as it has been an ongoing issue I've been experiencing.

I am having the same problem as well. I purchased an external CD disk drive for my MacAir to download my music CD's. Every song on the 2 CD's that I tried skip between approximately 39 sec and 1 minute into each and every song. After approximately 1 minute, they all play fine. Please help. I have wasted hours trying this over and over. Thanks.

I have a rather large library on a WD external drive. The drive itself is fairly new and doesn't seem to have any other issues. I'm on iTunes 12.1.2 and OSX 10.10.3 on a Retina iMac.

This is happening to me as well. I imported a bunch of albums that came as zip files from download cards that are included with records, and they all skip to the end of each track at the 2:37 mark. I typically listen on other devices using iTunes Match, but when I went straight to the source, I noticed the skipping. So, I can't really say how long it's been happening. The uploaded batch prior to the one that caught my notice also skips at the same point. The files play fine in Quicktime.

All the content in the File tab of the songs seems normal. A standard encoding was used (by the manufacturer), the track length listed is accurate, and the start and stop times are were not altered. Again, these are audio files coming directly from the record labels via their download cards. And, they are different labels - Hardly Art (aka Subpop), Merge, and In The Red Records. All skipping at 2:37.

When I attempt to convert the files to AAC, the generated files are 2:37 in length - unless of course, the track is less than that length to begin with. Here's a screenshot showing the conversion in action along with another showing the original files.

Original:

Mid-conversion (note they're all being converted to 2:37 in length):

I've done some more troubleshooting and have some additional details to add.

1. My girlfriend put the mp3s into her iTunes on her Macbook Air and they play fine which confirms it's not the MP3s
2. I've diff'ed the iTunes copy of the MP3 with the original version of it straight from .zip extraction and they are identical so nothing is changing to the file itself when it's importing into iTunes and copied to my external hard drive.
3. Additionally, I've:
   1. removed the songs from iTunes
   2. closed iTunes
   3. verified that the songs are purged from the iTunes Library.xml file
   4. Added the songs back to iTunes
   5. verified that the songs are added back to the iTunes Library.xml file with the correct length values
   6. The exact same behavior returns

Here is Chastity Belt's Drone mp3 as it appears in my iTunes Library.xml along with the diff between it and the original (none reported).

I have the same issue with iTunes on Yosemite using iTunes Match.

Some albums I import and match will suffer from this issue and skip to the last second of the song around the 2:37 mark. The files are not corrupted and play back just fine in other players/devices. They will even work with iTunes by manually skipping past the magic 2:37 mark.

This is ridiculously annoying as it affects the core functionality of iTunes and I have had no success in trying to find out what causes this and how to fix it.

I have a feeling it has to do with iTunes Match. I will probably go back to managing my library manually with only local copies of the songs since Apple Music/iTunes Match is even buggier on iPhone. 😟

This same annoying problem has been happening to me since early 2013. Tracks will skip somewhere in the last minute of the song.

The one important thing to note is that this ONLY occurs with mp3s I purchased from Google Play.

Every other music player plays the songs all the way through.It feels a bit sketchy like Apple is intentionally trying to make users think something is wrong with other music services' music. I eventually gave in to Apple sometime later in 2013 and started going back to purchasing through iTunes, but for that brief period of time where I switched to Google Play - its only in that bag of songs that some (not all) have the problem.

Also, @xJohnyyx, I don't use iTunes Match, so I don't think it's that.