iTunes won't let me edit stop time on a particular song, will let me edit stop time on other songs

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iTunes won't let me edit stop time on a particular song, will let me edit stop time on other songs

Recently I was given a bunch of digital music on hard drive. One of the songs on the hard drive has a time of around 8 minutes and a file size of around 11 mb. The song plays perfectly fine if I preview it off of the hard drive. When the song is imported into iTunes the time drops to 8 seconds but the file remains the same size as before. I've tried to edit the stop time of the song to reflect what it should be but will not apply the changes that I've made. I've been able to edit the stop/start times of other songs from the same import. Any ideas as to how to deal with this?

Posted on Oct 14, 2014 10:58 AM

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Squid5 Author

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Oct 14, 2014 4:18 PM in response to Steven Blunk

I got it to work. Apparently there was some corruption in the last couple of seconds of the track which prevented it from being converted. I went in and trimmed the last part of the track off outside of iTunes and then it worked. Thanks for the initial suggestion!

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Oct 14, 2014 12:28 PM in response to Squid5

I didn't have precisely this issue, but one similar. What fixed it (and I don't know why I tried it) was to have iTunes convert the song (from m4a to mp3 in my case), and iTunes corrected the time.

Good luck

srb

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