Corrupted songs

I have a few corrupted songs on my iPod. and when i delete them. they are still on my ipod.

There are several methods of deleting songs from the iPod and/or iTunes, and the method you choose depends on the settings you have selected for your iPod.
If you have the iPod set to automatically transfer songs, and you no longer want a copy of those songs on either the iPod or in iTunes, simply delete the songs in iTunes. Highlight the songs you no longer want then right click and select "clear", or from the edit menu select "clear". Next time you connect the iPod, the songs will be deleted from there also.
Only do this if you no longer want the songs on both the iPod and your computer.
You can also use the "only update checked songs" method in the iPod options (right click on the iPod in the source list in iTunes and select options, then select "only update checked songs"). With this preference checked, you can remove the check mark from the songs in iTunes that you no longer want on the iPod. The next time you connect the iPod, those unchecked songs will be removed from the iPod whilst still being retained in iTunes. You can check and uncheck songs as you change your mind about what songs you want to put on the iPod. Songs that have no check mark against them will be skipped over when played back in iTunes.
If you have the iPod set to manually manage your songs, and you want to delete the song from the iPod only, then select the iPod in the source list of iTunes, or click on the "music" option underneath it to show all your songs. Highlight the song(s) you no longer want on the iPod, right click and select "clear", or use the edit menu as previously mentioned.
This method only deletes the songs from the iPod, so if you no longer want the song in iTunes also, you'll need to delete it from there separately using the method above.
If you are using iTunes version 7 or later, all these settings can be found in the summary screen.
If you want to delete everything from the iPod and completely erase the hard drive and start from scratch, then you can restore the iPod to factory settings.
Only do this if you have the songs in your iTunes library, or a back up somewhere other than the iPod itself.

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Can't get corrupted song off ipod

Hello! I've run into a problem with my ipod touch - there is a corrupted song that I cannot take off- I've tried almost everything! It's a duplicate (there are two of the same song in the list, and the corrupted one doesn't play at all). Not that big of a deal, but it's frustrating because there's no way to get rid of it. In iTunes, it does not show up on the list of songs "On This Ipod". Since I have iOS 6, there's no way to manually delete it. I even tried going into the settings and erasing all my music from the ipod, and even then it was still there (only one left). I suppose completely resetting the ipod would get rid of the song, but I'd really rather not do that. Any ideas?
Thank you so much!
(also, I haven't gotten a chance to update to 6.1 yet. Would that help at all?)

Paul,
next time you connect your iPod, switch the "hard disc use" on the iPod preferences in iTunes on. Then you might be able to copy them from the folder. If this doesn't work, search for some addons that enables you to copy data from your iPod back to the computer. You can find them here http://www.ipodsoft.com/ and here http://www.ilounge.com/index.php
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All the best
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Hi All,
Background/Symptoms: My macbook pro (2008 unibody) crashed a little while ago. It started being really sluggish, so I tried to install an update and during the update I got an error. I turned off the computer and it wouldn't boot past the apple logo. When I started it in Verbose mode I was getting a disk input output error.
What I've tried:
1. Took it to the genius bar, after the tests on the HDD he said that it appeared to be fine and to try reinstalling the OS.
2. I tried booting it up in target disk mode to copy my files over to my imac and was able to get off a good portion of my documents. When I tried to copy over music I would get an error 36 saying that it couldn't be copied, I went through the artists individually and it said this for about 90% of them.
3. I tried reinstalling snow leopard (that was my current OS) but about 1/4 the way through the install a big exclamation mark appeared and it said the install failed.
4. After the failure above, I did an archive and install of Leopard (not snow leopard) and was able to get the OS up and running.
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So with the semi success above, I can view my music in the previous systems folder from the macbook pro's new OS. When I try to add the music to itunes, it says it's corrupt and won't add. I get the same error (36) when I try to copy it from the previous systems folder to an external hard drive or just to the desktop of the macbook pro. Here is the weird thing. When I open the corrupt files in quicktime player, they play! On one of the songs that I'm testing, only the first 3 minutes plays and then it ends, but on most of the others it will play fully. Is there a way to scan for the corrupt songs and only copy over the ones that aren't corrupt?
Thanks in advance, please let me know if there are more details I can provide.
~Greg

I have experienced that when there is something a little quirky about the files. Personally, what I would do in your situation is use iTunes to convert the files to AAC using these instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550 Then see if the AACs transfer to the iPod.

I downloaded the full Ultimate Christmas. I have a corrupt song. I have Windows XP so I can not use the iTunes Cloud. It says that is the only way to re-download songs now is via the Cloud. How do I get a uncorrupted version of my song?

I downloaded the full Ultimate Christmas. I have a corrupt song. I have Windows XP so I can not use the iTunes Cloud. It says that is the only way to re-download songs now is via the Cloud. How do I get a uncorrupted version of my song?
When I thing of the Thousands of dollars I have spent to get a 2000 song library and how Applle keeps screwing Windows users (no back-up of songs) I just think what a fool I was.

I did think about that and if I have to I will do that, however there are about 50 songs. I have closed and reopened iTunes several times and I am sure that I have the latest version. It fails right away but I can click on the cloud download icon and download the song that it failed on ... therefore it is not that song "or any one song" causing the issue. Any ideas?

Is iPod Shuffle corrupting songs or what?

I have this 2th gen iPod Shuffle I've been using for about four+ years. My problem is that some songs now sound corrupted. One, for instance, plays a few seconds then starts to make noises at some points. Others play a few seconds then jump to the middle then jump to the end or near and suddenly are finished.
I deleted the first example song above from iTunes (Windows) and copied a "working version" of it, that is, without the noises. But when I played it with my iPod Shuffle it was again with the very same noises.
What is wrong? Is iPod Shuffle corrupting songs or what?
BTW, is there a way to fix stuff like that in iTunes or other Apple software? Is some sort of defragmentation possible?
TIA for your attention and help.

Try to connect your iPod to computer, open iTunes, select your iPod and click Restore (the process will take some time). If songs still sound corrupted after the restore, most likely iPod flash memory is bad due to wear.

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Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Corrupted song file downloaded

I've had, I think, my first problem with downloading a song from iTunes music store. The last song on the album is currupted, for lack of better words. Plays like any other itunes song, but literally skips, just like the old albums I used to listen to. Initially I thought the mac was being stressed/overutilized and resources were thin, so I closed down all programs and tried again. Same exact thing, same place/time.
I forgot about that song until this week when I played it again and exact problem happened again. Its only this one song.
Is there a way to get a song that appears to have been corrupted on download re-downloaded without having to pay for it again?
Thanks
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Tell the iTMS about the corrupted song using the form on this page.
Usually they will either refund or tell you when the corrected track is available for download again (if the file indeed is corrupted).
Hope this helps.
M
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ITunes match corrupt song downloads

Hi, I am not sure if anyone has noticed anything similar but like many I have recently used iTunes match to clean up my library and consolidate my songs ripped from CD's and/or downloaded from Amazon/Play.com etc into similar quality. In doing so I had about a 75% match rate and for these tracks I decided to download the higher bit rate versions from iTunes. While all appeared to download fine, many of the files appear to be corrupted in that they seem to stop half way through the song.
Now to fix this I have deleted the local file an re-downloaded a new copy (sometimes having to follow this process twice and even three times to get a working version). The only evidence that there seems to be something not right with the file is the file size is smaller but with having no basis for comparison the only way I have found to check the songs is buy playing through each one and skipping to the end of the track to see if there is anything there.
Has anyone else found a similar issue and if so, any easier way of scanning for corrupt song files? So far I have scanned 600 'matched' songs and found 30 errors. One CD which had almost half the songs with errors was Billy Idol's Charmed Life if anyone else has it and may want to check.

I would try one other test -- assuming you still have the original files, delete those 30 problematic files from iCloud, then import your original source files into the new library and then re-do the matching / delete local / download process again. In other words, now you're testing the entire process from start to finish with this new library, just to see the results. My guess is that you'll have the same problem, but at least this eliminates the library itself as a factor.
And assuming it's still a problem, then I'm not sure. I always figured that once the songs were Matched, they should be pristine at least on their end. but it's actually possible that these 30 tracks are in fact corrupt on the iTunes server end. I wish I had these songs to test, just to give you a 2nd tester to confirm if I saw the same issues. Other than that, if you had a different system or a different location you can test, you could at least eliminate hardware / OS as a factor.
And @carlton -- yeah, it was just a bad day yesterday. Going over the TOS I see what happened and how things were perceived. I just wish there was a way to give Apple more active feedback other than the feedback URL or chatting with an L1 rep. Hopefully they are reading this board and making notes.

Clicking harddisk, corrupt songs. It could be iTunes.

AIFF's in my collection that used to play well, suddenly got corrupt. The AIFF's weren't playable anymore. Everytime I clicked the play-button, the beachball popped up and the hard disk started making a clicking-sound.
I copied the corrupt AIFF's by choosing 'Convert selection to AIFF'. This way I was able to listen to the songs again. The copies of the corrupt AIFF's played well. But the copying process made the HD start clicking and the speedball turning.
So I got rid of the corrupt songs, but I'm still wondering how I got them after all.
Some people told me they thought I'm having a harddisc problem. But how could this be? After I deleted the corrupt AIFF's, it's not clicking anymore.

There are various ways, read this and choose the best option for you!
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
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There are various programs on the internet that would allow you to pull non-purchased content.
EE

Corrupt songs. How to get them. And how to get rid of them.

AIFF's in my collection that used to play well, suddenly got corrupt. The AIFF's weren't playable anymore. Everytime I clicked the play-button, the beachball popped up and the hard disk started making a clicking-sound.
I copied the corrupt AIFF's by choosing 'Convert selection to AIFF'. This way I was able to listen to the songs again. The copies of the corrupt AIFF's played well. But the copying process made the HD start clicking and the speedball turning.
So I got rid of the corrupt songs, but I'm still wandering how I got them after all.

@ iTunes Mike:
My HD isn't making clicking sounds anymore since I got rid of the corrupt AIFF's.
So I'm not sure it was the harddisk causing the corruption.
Thank you for your advice however. I backed up, like I always do.

Ipod freezes computer and itunes and has corrupt songs

Hi,
a while back I was having problems with my 160gb IPod classic. Every time I plugged it in the entire computer, and iTunes would freeze.
This ended with a trip to the Apple store and after a lengthy session, the iPod was restored to factory settings. (The guys had a lot of trouble doing this, didn't seem an easy process)
Recently I plugged the iPod in (Windows 8) and added a few more albums.
Later on when playing the iPod on my dock, I noticed a lot of the CDs were missing, completely erased. I had heard of a bug on iTunes which removes CDs that haven't been bought via iTunes, but seems strange as NONE of my albums were bought from iTunes.
I've also noticed that songs appear to be corrupted on some albums. They begin to play, stop, then skip to the next playable song, skipping over the ones that won't play.
Problem is that when I plug it into my HP laptop, it freezes until it is unplugged again. Same with iTunes, it wont respond while the iPod is plugged in.
The computer registers it as a removable drive but says it is full. Device manager recognises it and says it is working ok and has the latest driver etc.
What I want to do it restore it to factory settings but I just can't do it via iTunes and the computer doesn't give me the option as it's not recognisable in 'My Computer' as an iPod.
Can't take it into the store again as the warranty has expired.
There must be a way to return it to factory settings, if not manually without a computer, than maybe via device manager?
I'm not too up on the technical side of things so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Peter.

Eventually managed to restore to factory settings.
Anyone heard about that ITunes 'bug/virus' or is it just scaremongering?

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You should be able to use the 'report a problem' link from your purchase history : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1933

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...given that the program crashes if it encounters a corrupt file during the import process, and fails to save any of the songs it has imported so far?
I seriously hope the answer is not "hold the software's hand as you import the albums one at a time, close the program, and reopen it to save your progress"

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I've downloaded over 500 songs from the itunes store and never gotten the message I got today that says I have a corrupted file and need to just redownload my purchase but that doesnt work. I dont know what to do. Can anybody help?

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Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
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