Music skips while streaming

Using iTunes on a Mac or PC while streaming a song will play for 20 to 40 seconds and then skip to the next song in the queue. Is there any way to prevent that, by instead insisting iTunes waits until the song loads? I don't want it to skip to the next song because it figures it can't load it. I am not having this issue using Apple Music on my iPhone X. Just having it on my MacBook Pro and Dell Laptop. I have this issue at work, home, and at coffee shops. So annoying.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jun 25, 2018 4:18 PM

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Jun 27, 2018 6:47 AM in response to golfcoffee

Hey golfcoffee,

It appears that when you go to stream music whether on your Mac or PC, the songs will play for up to 40 seconds and then skip to the next song. This happens on multiple networks. Great job troubleshooting this issue. I'll be happy to assist you with this. What I'd like to have you do on both devices is to sign out of iTunes and then sign back in. Then test and see if the music will stream as expected now.

If you are still having an issue after that please deauthorize your computers and then reauthorize them and test again.

Deauthorize your computer using iTunes

Authorize your computer in iTunes

Let me know if this helps with your streaming issue.

Have a great day!

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