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Q: Song playback cut off early

Hi,

 

After the most recent update (12.3.0.44) I have some albums where many songs get cut off early when I try to play them back.

 

Is anyone else experiencing this? I saw some recent posts that lead me to think this is a new bug.

 

I searched and saw that in past years some people point to bad gapless playback information, but the only solutions I saw were to try creating a new library and re-importing the old one. I have a library of over 10,000 songs with ratings and smart playlists so I am hesitant to do this -- especially if it is an open bug.

 

Thanks for any help,

Alex

iTunes, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 6:33 PM

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  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Mar 14, 2016 12:01 PM in response to Stince Vaples
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    Mar 14, 2016 12:01 PM in response to Stince Vaples

    I would give it a try with a few you're having problems with now to test it out.

     

    Did another hundred songs myself and haven't found one with the error yet.

     

    One note: I am adding everything via the Automatically Add to iTunes folder -- I tried adding stuff via File -> Add to Library and those files got stuck in 'calculating gapless playback' on every iTunes startup.

     

    Slowly readding stuff but if I don't post here in the next week it's a good sign that this is (finally) a successful workaround.

  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Mar 15, 2016 4:15 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Mar 15, 2016 4:15 PM in response to abuckiew

    To anyone reading, I just readded 3,000 songs to my library using this method.

    So far no problems (a new record) so I am considering my workaround to fully resolve my problem.

    Hopefully Apple will resolve the bug and make it work without readding everything, I just got tired of waiting for them to fix it.

     

    If anyone is interested you can submitted bugs via the iTunes feedback form (http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html). Here is the one I wrote:

     

     

    I have a workaround to a bug with gapless playback of MP3s (maybe only LAME encoded). It started in iTunes 12.2 and still exists in the latest version.

     

    On startup iTunes activity circle appears in the upper right and says 'determining gapless playback information' for many MP3s.

    These files may not play to completion -- at some point in the song (5:22 for many files) iTunes will think the rest of the song is silence and skip to the next track.

     

    The way I have found to avoid the bug is to add all MP3s by moving them too 'Automatically Add to iTunes' and then play the song (just for a second) before quitting iTunes. On the next startup they are not in the list and play properly.

     

    If I add to my library via the menu or quit before playing the MP3s then they are effected.

     

    Thanks

  • by Stince Vaples,

    Stince Vaples Stince Vaples Mar 28, 2016 7:47 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Mar 28, 2016 7:47 PM in response to abuckiew

    Any news?

     

    Here is my concern: when I open iTunes, it pops up with the message that it is analyzing gapless playback for files I added long, long ago, before I first noticed my problem. So I do not know if it will retroactively mess up songs that I've had for a long time but have not listened to or played.

  • by abuckiew,

    abuckiew abuckiew Mar 29, 2016 4:31 PM in response to Stince Vaples
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    Mar 29, 2016 4:31 PM in response to Stince Vaples

    This workaround works perfectly for me and I haven't encountered the issue since. Some notes:

     

    I readded all my mp3s that had been added after I upgraded to iTunes 12.2 (you can check in /Utilities/Applications/System Information -> Software -> iTunes to see when you installed each version).

     

    Nothing is analyzed when I start iTunes.

     

    You don't even need to play the songs for a second just fast forward through them so iTunes touches them.

     

    You could readd them on an ad hoc basis when you encounter a bad file/album but I really just wanted to be done with the issue.

     

    I saved my track ratings by 'printing' them into the grouping tag. First sort all your songs by rating, then select all the 5 stars, get info and change the grouping to 5, etc. etc. Then after you import you can sort by grouping and re-rate all the 5 grouped songs to 5 stars.

     

     

    I didn't try the upgrade released a few days ago -- going to put off upgrading until absolutely necessary from now on.

     

    Good luck!

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Mar 30, 2016 8:28 AM in response to abuckiew
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    Mar 30, 2016 8:28 AM in response to abuckiew

    You could try my script ResetStartEndTimes. If that doesn't work there is another that can export just about anything except date added so that it can be restored later.

     

    tt2

  • by Stince Vaples,

    Stince Vaples Stince Vaples Apr 10, 2016 2:44 PM in response to abuckiew
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    Apr 10, 2016 2:44 PM in response to abuckiew

    By the way abuckiew, I have been using your little trick for about two weeks now. The new music I add seems to be fine. I just play every song for 1 second or so whenever I import an album and I haven't run across the problem again.

     

    I haven't done any bulk imports yet. I guess I should experiment with a bulk import (drag and drop multiple albums), play each one for a second, close iTunes, and then come back later and see if any songs skip.

     

    I use Windows and things seem to be working pretty similarly to your experience on the Mac.

  • by Pablo Olmos,

    Pablo Olmos Pablo Olmos May 5, 2016 10:56 AM in response to abuckiew
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    May 5, 2016 10:56 AM in response to abuckiew

    Thanks for the feedback link

     

    I've the same issue and feedback to Apple to solve this hateful issue.

     

    I convert the version of mp3 iD3 to 2.4, convert mp3 songs to AAC, but no solve the issue in 100%... some songs still have random cut's before finish.

     

    Anybody occurs this issue in iPhone?, I've song cuts in iPhone 6s, in the same songs but in different time cuts... I've a lot of thousands of songs, an ammount of Gb and I can't rebuild my song list, It's an extra job I can't do, I take a lot of days to do this

     

    Good luck and best wishes to all

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