iTunes cutting off songs - my fix

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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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!

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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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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Yes I have tried that - removing the stop time has no effect. I am not using iTunes Match and this only happens with uploaded mp3 (not all of them but most of them) - not with songs purchased on iTunes. This issue only happens when I play them on my Windows 10 laptop - on my iPod or with any other MP# player they work fine.

This issue only started about a year or two ago after an iTunes update - many songs that were working fine before then also have issues now. The biggest issue is that my library has over 25,000 songs and thousands have this problem now. Even if there is a song-by-song solution, the only way to find out which ones are affected would be to listen to each track - which will take months! Apple needs to fix this from their side as only their software has this issue!

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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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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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!). 🙂

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.

Given you're on Windows try http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/.

And make use of Feedback - iTunes - Apple.

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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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