This has been frustrating me to no end. It only recently started happening and I followed some the of the suggested fixes to no avail. This simple little fix worked for me however:
When one opens the Get Info window on an album, or by selecting a list of songs, there is a check box for "use work and movement". Untick that! No idea what it's for, but that seemed to fix it.
Hope it helps anyone else out there.
iPhone X, iOS 11.2.6
Have you tried going in and removing the stop time in some affected tracks to see if that resets them? If these are purchased tracks, or you have iTunes Match, you could also try removing the current downloaded copy and then redownloading.
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Not seeing the problem in my own library, but I know how frustrating it can be when stuff doesn't work as it should. 😕
Grabbing at straws here, but see the Multiple tags section of Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows. Try cleaning the tags as shown there for a sample file that won't play correctly at the moment to see if it helps.
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What it is for is covered in Organize your classical music in iTunes - Apple Support. I'm not sure that switching the option ought to have had any effect, but perhaps it forces iTunes to check the tag and correct any inappropriate stop time it might have had stored.
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As an experiment can you make a copy of one of the files, then add that into the current library as a duplicate and see if it plays properly?
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Unlikely to work within iTunes if it won't play the full track. Try something like Audacity. There is also software that just does this task on batches of tracks although off-hand I cannot name one.
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I have also tried endless things without success and will definitely give this a go tonight. If it works I will be forever in your debt!! This is the biggest frustration in my life and I can't believe how unsupportive and clueless Apple has been regarding this!
It didn't help for me unfortunately. The box was already un-ticked. I even tried ticking it, saving, and then un-ticking - but to no avail. Some of my songs cut off with over a minute to play - it is totally unacceptable! On my iPod and with all other music players they play 100% correct - the issue is only with iTunes on my laptop!
OK copy thanks - I will play around with one track so see if it has any affect but it is not viable for the amount of tracks affected combined with the issue of locating all affected tracks. I truly feel Apple needs to fix this as everyone with this issue ONLY have it when using iTunes - so somewhere they are doing something differently (and wrong!). 🙂
Given you're on Windows try http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/.
And make use of Feedback - iTunes - Apple.
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Thanks - I tried the software on one affected song but it doesn't pick up any problem with the MP3 to repair.
I - and many others with the same issue - have also reported this to Apple over and over but with every new release the problem is still there.
Thanks again for trying to help - this truly is the biggest frustration in my life - by a long stretch! I tried the suggestions in the Multiple Tags section with one of the problem songs but, alas, still no luck 😟
That's a shame. You could try shifting format but that is somewhat of a drag and probably degrades the quality a little. And it still leaves the issue of working out which tracks have this problem anyway. 😐
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The specific song I am looking at currently is Encoded With Lame3.98 - but I have seen other people posting (although I have not tried it myself) that they would import the exact same MP3 into a new iTunes library and then it works correctly. But that is obviously a far from ideal solution for me as I will lose a lot of very valuable information built up over the years.
That is one of the 1st things I tried - even converting the affected songs to AAC in iTunes doesn't solve the problem.
If you look at Get Info > File tab is there any useful information under Encoded with for the problem tracks?
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iTunes cutting off songs - my fix
