ITunes ripping certain CDs slow and creating distorted tracks

I have just recently swicthed to iTunes after getting my new laptop and ripped my entire CD collection using it (iTunes 9.1.1 I believe).
Anyway, out of probably 200 CDs I've found 5 that just won't rip properly and I can't, no matter what I look for figure out why?
If anyone could help, the problem is that iTunes claims to be ripping at speeds of on average x0.4 to x0.6 (Where as all other CDs I get about x13) and estimating a rip time, but the estimation only goes down by 2 seconds every 40/50 seconds. After I finally gave in and let it rip an entire track (which took around an hour) the song was broken and distorted almost beyond recognition. I then decided to rip the track using Windows Media Player and it did it just fine.
The Albums are;
Muse -Showbiz
Muse -Absolution
Muse -HAARP
Muse -Hullabloo Soundtrack
Death Cab For Cutie -Plans
If that makes any difference to the problem
The CDs are clean and just about brand new since I only ever rip my CDs and then reserve them to the shelf, does anyone have any idea what's going wrong at all.
Thankyou

You might be able to see if Gracenote is responsible for the slow-down by using the script Disable Gracenote
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

Similar Messages

Does anybody else find itunes has become really slow and unresponsive since the lastest version upgrade?

Does anybody have any ideas to help with Itunes? its become slow and useless sine upgrading to the latest version. i can still download at normal speeds from the site but initial opening and navigation are painfully slow.

See:
Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
Mac OS X speed FAQ,
Speeding up Macs,
How to Speed up Macs,
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance,
Mac troubleshooting: What to do when your computer is too slow,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X,
Five Mac maintenance myths and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X for information.

I have been noticing videos on hulu, youtube and even itunes have been downloading slow and pausing in the middle of watching them. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Someone told me its my media player, but I am not sure what to do.

I have been noticing videos on hulu, youtube and even itunes have been downloading slow and pausing in the middle of watching them. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Someone told me its my media player, but I am not very good at computers and don't want to download the wrong thing.

I have been noticing videos on hulu, youtube and even itunes have been downloading slow and pausing in the middle of watching them. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Someone told me its my media player, but I am not very good at computers and don't want to download the wrong thing.

ITunes update removes quicklaunch icons and creates new folder each time

Everytime I install an iTunes update, it removes my quicklaunch icon and creates a new start menu folder. I keep the iTunes start menu folder in a 'Media' subfolder (to keep things organized), but each time I update iTunes on each of my computers it creates a new iTunes folder in the main start menu. Any way to make it stop doing this? Since I work on multiple machines, it can be really irritating to have to redo icons and move folders each time.
Working on PCs (Dell work laptops) running Windows 7.
Thanks!

Unfortunately it won't go into disk mode. Even tried the "put your ipod on a flat surface" trick. I'm wondering if the battery hasn't stopped holding a charge. But it seems the symptoms would be more like a constant battery icon. Instead I'm getting the sad face everytime I try to put it in disk mode or reset. Ideas? Throw ipod against wall? Blow on it like old-school Nintendo cartridges?
Oh, and yes, it is Windows formatted.
Any and all help would be appreciated.

Itunes 11.1.1 slow and unresponsive

Since updating Itunes it has been very slow and unresponsive when trying to look at my podcast list. It is also automatically downloading the latest episode even though my selection is set to off.

noticed the same thing after i upgraded. after clicking on podcasts library itunes would freeze additionally when clicking on my iphone in itunes and selecting the podcast tap, itunes would beachball for 20-30 seconds. So I opened activity monitor and noticed everytime I selected podcast library or the podcasts to sync under the device network activity would skyrocket and itunes would freeze until it completed. It only occurs with podcasts.... Out of curiosity I turned wifi off, connected ethernet -> same prolem. The interesting part is if I disconnect ethernet and disable wifi everything is lightning fast, no delays, and no apparent issues other than the fact you cannot download new episodes.

Itunes 10.4 extremely slow and "hangs"

Ever since I upgraded to Lion, the new iTunes is extremely slow, and constantly "hangs" (showing the dreader Beach Ball of Death). This happens for an especially long time whenever I'm downloading podcasts and otherwise syncing my iPod Classic.

The problem about screen size values happens to all video that I import in Itunes from the same source (my Samsung HMX-H100P HD Camcorder).
The strange thing is that if you look at the scren size values with other software (QuickTime, Avidemus), the values shown for scren size are corrected as expected: 1280x720.
I installed Itunes 10.4.0.80 1 month ago and it was the first installation of Itunes on my PC.
Reinstalling (deinstall + install) Itunes is not a solution to the problem: I tried this yesterday without success.

ITunes on iMac imports CDs slow and eventually stops

I have 2 iMacs and one Macbook. Both iMacs are Snow Leopard, the Macbook is just Leopard. Only one of the iMacs has this problem. I'm running the latest iTunes and I take in all Apple supplied updates every week.
This problem existed on the previous version of iTunes (9) and it did not get better after upgrading to version 10.
There are actually several problems, and they are quite bizarre. No other posting in the Forums seems to cover them.
1) When I import a CD, it starts out OK. Kind of slow, like 3x, 4x but it moves for a song or two. Then the import progress bar stops updating. It seems to freeze. If you touch the mouse, the bar jumps way ahead, or even to the next song. Then it just sits there again. If you move the mouse continuously you can eventually get the thing up to 6x or 8x and it will finish. If you don't move the mouse, it eventually just goes to sleep and never finishes. There is a workaround for this - if you play a song from your library while you are importing the CD then it will eventually finish. The progress bar retains its weird non-linear behavior, but it will finish and eject the CD. It never gets faster than about 8x and my other iMac can import at about 20x.
2) Sometimes when I start playing a song from my library (not importing a CD at this time) the progress bar jumps all over the place. It will be 30 seconds into a song and then it flashes back to 2 seconds, then ahead to 32, then back, etc. The audio during this time is fine it does not actually rewind the music.
3) I also have an Airport Express. When I set this machine up to play through the AE it will play OK for 10 or 15 minutes. Then it will just stop. You cannot click anything to make it responsive. You have to right-click on the iTunes icon and do a force quit. Other machines in the house can play through the AE for hours with no dropouts. There is good network connectivity, the machines are only 15 feet apart.
If the problem was just the importing of CDs, it might seem like a hardware problem. But I have these other 2 problems and they have nothing to do with the CD. The only constant is iTunes. The rest of the apps on the box Mail, Safari, Firefox, etc. seem fine. There are no glitches in them.
Should I reload iTunes completely ? If I do that will my library be lost ?
Theoretically I do have a saved copy of the library in my Time Capsule.

This was resolved with a hardware repair. The USB port was shorted causing an interrupt storm and affected iTunes.

My itunes is running really slow and will not recognise any of the 2 iphones 1 "3g" and 1 "4" or my ipod touch ?

my itunes is running very very slow the rest of my pc is fine.
i tunes will not recognise either of my iphones "3gs,4, nor my ipod touch4".
i have uninstalled all apple software and re installed itunes .
i have checked my iphone at a retail store and it was found.
i have the latest version of ie "ie9" and itunes "10.2.2.12".
any ideas what to do ?

Hi Grant, Thanks for the response, much appreciated.
I agree that it should not really run slow however I would really like to upgrade to Lion anyway and thought that doing it via the SSD route would be good way to do it as the SSD should help speed things up once I sort out the underlying issue at present. I also wanted to try and load lion but still have Snow Leopard available on the original drive for the time being till I knew that eveything was working well using Lion but I'm not sure if this is possible and how to do to this.
I have just clicked on 'Verify disk' on HD1 in the utility menu and there is a problem there. It is asking for me to start using another disk such as the mac installation disc but I am not sure where I have put this. Seeing as I have upgraded to SL would this now be the new installation disc and if so, do I just put the disc in the machine and restart?
Thanks for your help

Equium A100-147 - System slow and sound distorted

Hi, Help needed.
I have the Equium A100-147, been working fine for a couple of year but in the last few weeks has ground practically to a halt, takes between 5-10 mins to startup and when starting and once started the sound is as if the memory is running slow (like distorted) this even at sign in when the windows tune plays.
Laptop has 2.5GB memory so should be plenty and 18GB free s not running low. Running XP SP2 MCE. Had zone alarm running, thinking this could be the problem have now switched to AVG, but still the same.
CPU in use when system idle, i.e. just started with no applications running fluctuates bbetween 25 and 55%
Any ideas on what it could be before I rebuild
Thanks
Gaffar

Hi
I think this is a known problem of Windows that its getting slower after one year or two years ;)
I think you should try to defragment your HDD and to delete some programs that you dont need. Then clean your system using CCleaner.
Disable all programs in start up that you dont need.
Furthermore you should AntiVir. In my opinion its the best freeware antivirus program that you can have.
Last but not least you should try to update the sound driver. Check the Toshiba website for a newer version.

ITunes downloads are painfully slow, and using the wrong servers

For the past few months, iTunes downloads (from a PC) have been unbearably slow, with single 60-minute TV shows taking 3-6 hours to download. Worse, Apple has decided that I live in the middle east, rather than Vermont. According to Task Manager, itunes is connecting to 204.2.196.136 to download files, and that server is located in Iran.
Before anyone asks, I am using my ISP's DNS provider, located in Vermont. So this has nothing to do with that useless Google DNS service. How do I forge iTunes to use the right providers in the United States?
For what it's worth, no other programs have this problem. Speedtest reports a healthy 10-12 Mb/s, Steam downloads huge files quickly, and Apple TV streaming is fine. As far as I can tell, only iTunes store downloads are affected (from any source, including my iPad 2.)

In my case, I think it's a combination of my isp being incredibly slow (Optus in Melbourne) and iTunes apparently throttling the download speed. A couple of days ago, my download speed measured on speedtest.net was 0.2 Mbps!! After phoning Optus to complain, they reset the line and the speed bounced up to about 6 Mbps. So in that case it was definitely my isp. But now, even with the approx 6 Mbps download speed, my iTunes downloads are taking about 3 hours just to download one 40-something minute episode. When I do a traceroute (start, cmd, tracert itunes.apple.com, enter) the iTunes server is located in Boston, US and I'm in Ballarat, Victoria, Oz.

Why does iTunes move my music files and create new albums?

I'm running iTunes 11.4 on my iMac running Mavericks 10.9.4. My iTunes library is stored on a WD MyBookLive NAS.
I've not had any problems with this set up until today. When I double clicked on a song it moved it completely into another album, gave the file the wrong name but still played the right music, it had also changed the file information to match the wrong folder. When I re-added it to iTunes it put it back into the wrong album!
I have also seen it move songs as I double click them to play from one album to a new album of the same name but the artist name goes from 'Soupdragons' to 'The Soupdragons' Both these folders then exist on my NAS. This is crazy, what is happening? Fortunately these errors have happened to old music that I have the CD's for so I can easily rectify it, but any help as to why it's happening would be great.
Thanks Tim

Go to iTunes > Preferences > Store and turn off
Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases
Share details about your library with Apple
On any iOS device go to Settings > Music and turn off
Show All Music
Close and reopen iTunes and/or reset the device and you should see your version of the metadata for each track rather than the original store data.
tt2

Workbench is too slow and creating an archive in Workbench takes an eternity

Creating an archive in Workbench is taking too long.
Creating an archive for 1 four page document is taking 15 minutes and 15 seconds to prepare then another 9 minutes to create the 150K archive file.
We are experiencing this constantly and we need to figure out why. Are there configuration settings that can be made to correct this situation. We are running workbench in Citrix. Are there known issues about running workbench in Citrix.

How big is your 4-page document source file?
I had an issue recently where one of my .process files grew to 34MB. There was a bug where it just kept inserting blank lines into one of the xml tags every time I saved it. But because it was constant, it compressed down in the archive quite well.
Rename the .LCA file to .ZIP, open it and see how big the files are in there. If there is one huge file, you might want to try copying the offending file to a new file in Workbench, delete the old one and see if that reduces the size.

[CS4] startup strangeness, slow, and creates an empty desktop folder

Hi all, have u seen this one? When CS4 starts up it first writes a folder to my desktop, always called .7R6GAHEG21T79KT0, and then takes a very very long time to load. I've tried the preferences procedure, but it does not seem related. I started having this problem after loading CS5 (I have to run both for a while until clients catch up). Well, thx for any tips!
jigs

I have not heard of this. Matter of fact, I've never heard of PrPro writing any folder/file to the Desktop. Actually, because of the differences with the Desktop root folder, some users have moved certain VST's to a Desktop folder, to keep PrPro from trying to load them on launch.
This is an odd one indeed. Hope that others will have an explanation for you and a cure.
Good luck,
Hunt

ITunes locks up computer when ripping some CDs

I have been building my iTunes library. iTunes rips some CDs with no problem. However, ripping other CDs causes my computer to lock up which requires a hard shut down in order get out of iTunes. The CDs which are a problem with iTunes can be ripped with Windows Media Player and then imported to iTunes but, that makes unnecessary work. Furthermore, I never know which CDs will work with iTunes and which ones won't! I have followed all of the standard "Apple" advise, to included uninstalling and installing the iTunes software a number of times. Nothing helps! Early in 2006, I did not experience this problem. Do you have any ideas?
Inspiron 5150 Windows XP

Though this is a forum for itunes on Windows, I'm having the same issue on my g4 mini, and installed the 7.0.1 update as it was supposed to address this very problem, among others. No difference at all. I've tried importing as AAC, mp3, with different bit rates, and no change. It will import a few tracks, or most of them, or none of them, and then lock up randomly.
The only way around it that I've found is to manually copy all the AIFF files from the cd to my desktop and then import in to itunes from there, and that works without any problem but then I have to enter all the track titles, etc., manually--inconvenient but nothing more.
Anyone else still having trouble with this? My next step will be to uninstall v7 and install v6, but I'd like to find a solution to this so I can still use the nifty features in v7.

Music goes slow and gives a shaky sound

Since monday i have a problem with several songs playing in Itunes. They go slow and are shaky from sound. This songs are all ACC. I allready updated DirectX and looked for an update for soundcard (no update). No plugins are installed in Itunesplugins. Also installed the new version of Itunes. Nothing seems to work, even the songs backed up on external drive sounds the way described.
What can i do more???

OK, that's a shame, I wondered if it would be OK in Vista as my Vista PC does not show high CPU usage on m4p files.
What CPU % do you get in the task manager when you play m4p files?
If you mind about this you probably need to downgrade to the last known good version of iTunes which I think is two versions back.
You can download old versions from FileHippo, but the mods don't like us to give the URL.
You have to uninstall itunes in order to install an old version and you also need to rebuild your lirbary using the method here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
Or if you can find the correct version in your previous Itunes library folder you can use that. This will be a library file with a date corresponding to your upgrade from the version your are installing. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967?viewlocale=en_US
Don't forget to report this as a bug using the feedback option on the iTunes help menu.

ITunes ripping certain CDs slow and creating distorted tracks

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for