Corrupt sound itunes

The sound of itunes is corrupt on my iMac

Is this happening with all songs and videos?
Make sure you've installed all of the software updates available.
Try playing the track in QuickTime Player, just right click the track in iTunes, click Show in Finder, right click the track in Finder, click Open With and choose QuickTime Player.
If your having the same problem with sound both apps, try looking for outdated plug-ins by following along with this -> iTunes: Troubleshooting issues with third-party iTunes plug-ins

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I have a relatively large collection (~12000 songs) managed by iTunes. Recently, I have been having major problems with MP3s, mostly downloaded from Amazon, getting corrupted by iTunes. By corrupted, I mean that the song has skips and weird digital artifacts that I haven't had problems with since the very early (pre-1999) days of using Napster. If you've heard this before, you'll probably agree that it's hard to describe, but the song basically goes off-beat for a split second, can sound like a warble machine, and sometimes has very harsh ear-popping noises.
This issue just recently started happening - I want to say within the last 3-4 weeks. I don't want to think that it's the recent upgrade to iTunes, but here is my thought:
I think that iTunes is modifying my MP3s, particularly the ones with star ratings, but also other files. Once edited, many seem to be corrupt. For the ones from Amazon, I've been able to download replacement versions (after getting their cust. service to re-enable the download) and the songs play fine in Winamp and WMP, until I play them in iTunes. Then they skip and blip all over the place in all 3 programs! The file size is changed by iTunes, often to a smaller file size (seems weird, if it's adding tag info?).
ANY help is appreciated. I'm about ready to stop using iTunes, change all my files to read-only, and find another way to upload to my iPods.
Thoughts?

Are you positive they didn't import, or is it just that there aren't where you expect to find them? The thing about wav files is they don't accept tags, so if you import them they will just get added under the filename.
I would just copy across the whole media folder with libraries and all, then start iTunes with the option key held down and point it at the media folder. This will just use the library in its new location and you don't have to import, etc.

Why do music files get corrupted in iTunes?

Why do music files get corrupted in iTunes? All kinds of files;( mp3, mp4, aac, etc., either purchased from iTunes, Store, downloaded from online, or uploaded from an audio disc) SUDDENLY GET CORRUPTED AND STOP PLAYING! Even if I delete the file from my iTunes and then re-open it from the source, it appears to be corrupted. My system has been thoroughly scanned and does not have and never has hAd, a virus. Music files should not have a shelf life. They're just non-living pieces of information. So why should they suddenly go bad? It is unacceptable that over the past year I have had to delete many files from my iTunes library and find some other source for the same song. It has been an exhausting headache and an exasperating waste of my time.

this is not necessarily the case, I had an itunes library go bad on me. I noticed the corrupt files on my ipod, they were either skipping real bad or sounded like there was some crazy modulation filter applie. Anyways, i went to iTunes and the files were bad there, so I played them in WMP, also bad, so obviously it was a file issue, BUT, what was the source of the corruption.......also, this happened ONLY to mp3s, no other audio file.......so i had backups and copied the bad files from a dvd and played them in WMP, files were good, then i import them to iTunes, and the files are crap again, so I tried just adding to library, still bad. So the file was fine before, once iTunes touched it, the file went bad, I **** you not. So I uninstalled iTunes from my PC, downloaded the newest version and reinstalled, same problems, so i continued trying with a different version, and making sure all registry entries were cleared before installing etc. NOTHING, so in the end i had to start using Winamp and all those files have not since caused me problems. So NO, it does not have to be hard drive issues, assess your own situation and you should be able to figure out if it is your HDD. My problem seemed to be iTunes library corrupting my metadata. However, I could never get it to work. I am glad to say I have since abandoned my PC and bought a new iMac on which i once again happily running iTunes with all the same audio files as before

HT201210 I updated iTunes on my Dell Inspiron lap top and it corrupted my iTunes. I uninstalled all of the newly installed files. I also uninstalled iTunes. Now whenever I try to install iTunes, I ge a message that saya, "An Apple Application support is

I updated iTunes on my Dell Inspiron lap top and it corrupted my iTunes. I uninstalled all of the newly installed files. I also uninstalled iTunes. Now whenever I try to install iTunes, I get a message that says, "An Apple Application support is required to run iTunes on this computer. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again."
Tried it 2 times and no luck. Any advice for me?
Maureen

I get a message that says, "An Apple Application support is required to run iTunes on this computer. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again."
With the Error 2, let's try a standalone Apple Application Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of the issue.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleApplicationSupport.msi to do a standalone AAS install.
Does it install properly for you?
If instead you get an error message during the install, let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.)

Multiple good IPOD's show as corrupt in itunes, error 1439

I have multiple IPOD's that test out fine at the Apple store (i.e. they will sync promptly and undergo a successful restore on a windows based computer) but they show as "corrupt" in iTunes at home. When I use the restore function in iTunes I get an error message "unable to restore, unknown error 1439 (or sometimes 1437).
Prior to this these iPods would appear in My Computer but not in iTunes - I corrected this problem by uninstalling and re-installing iTunes and clearing out the temp directory.
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Thanks for providing a good amount of detail.
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If you connect it and run Disk Utility instead of iTunes, does it appear in the Disk Utility sidebar?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1238

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Did a corrupted (8008) iTunes video corrupt my entire iPod (80 GB classic)?

I've had a black 80 GB iPod since around the time it was first released (January 2007). Until about 6 months ago, I never had any problems with it - I could download songs, TV shows, movies, and games without experiencing any problems.
About 6 months ago, when downloading a TV show season package, I received a message on one of the episodes that I'd never seen before, error 8008 (which told me that the file was corrupted and could not be downloaded). After some unproductive back-and-forth with a representative, I gave up on the episode and deleted the file from my computer hard drive completely. Of note, even though I'd given up on the episode and removed it from my iTunes download list, it appeared on my iTunes download list randomly last week and there were no problems with the download.
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Oh, also after the 8008 error, I began seeing a white screen I'd never seen before after turning on my iPod telling me that my iPod needed to be restored. I had never seen such a message before. Again, I followed all of the steps that Apple suggested; it kept happening anyway. I saw this message for about 4 months, but I haven't seen it since.
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Is my iPod corrupted forever? Will it always be a guessing game from now on as to whether a video I've downloaded will be perfectly fine or whether it will skip and freeze and not permit me to watch it? (In which case, iTunes certainly doesn't return money, as the download on their end was "successful.") How do I go about fixing this problem when the iPod - while in perfect condition otherwise because I've kept such good care of it - is no longer under warranty?

Also, if there's a better place to post this question, please let me know how to post it elsewhere. I tried to do so but I suppose I'm not permitted to double post in different forums?

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I turned to a friend for help and we discovered that my computer isn't recognizing that my mini is formatted - it's showing the system file as RAW instead of FAT32. When I connect it to another PC it shows the correct formatting.
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i'm thinking it's plausible here that you could be getting a Windows drive letter confusion on the PC, where the PC is thinking that your ipods are a camera (or some other device with onboard memory storage).
that's actually also consistent with relentlessly getting some messages telling you to restore the ipod (even though the ipod is showing up as perfectly fine on the PC).
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I have a Powermac G5 Dual 2.0 GHZ (single layer dvd drive model) that has been having problems with the sound.
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