Downloaded songs don't start at the beginning of the song, why?

the songs i bought from itunes don't start at the beginning of the song, it's just the preview clip.

Been having the same problems myself. And I don't know about you but sometimes it'll take a while to get it to actually play the first song.

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I experience a skip (about 200-400ms in duration) at the beginning of most songs (about 2-10 seconds in) when playing in iTunes on my Mac. Disabling Crossfade and Sound Enhancer did nothing. This problem started after upgrading from iTunes 6 to iTunes 7. Updating to 7.0.1 does not help either.
I assume this has something to do with gapless playback.
Is there a temporary workaround, and ETA on resolution?

I'm not sure how processes and threads work, but it appears that the Harmonic widget actually saves the lyrics it downloads in the song file. (Take a look at Get Info > Lyrics on a song after you have started playing it with the widget enabled.)
I know when I have done some other changes (song name, artist name, etc.) on songs that are playing then there is sometimes a small pause while it saves. I assume the same thing is happening.
The Harmonic widget looks nice, but has some serious problems at this point. I have 1.5.1 and most of the lyrics I see are for incorrect songs. I have been trying to get the 1.5.2 download, but their link is broken with no fix eta. (see http://www.mindquirk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=385) Until then I have deleted it and things seem to be working fine!

[SCORE] How to make an unfinished bar at the beginning of a song?

I'm working on a song and I'm trying to get the score right.
The song has an unfinished bar in the beginning; the song is in 4/4 but the very first note starts at the 4th count of the first bar. In the score, Logic automatically puts in a breve rest followed by a quarter rest (interpretation is on), but that's not what I want. At the end of the song, the "missed" notes complement the first bar (so it's in fact a 3/4 bar).
My problem is that I can't look it up in the manual nor internet, because I don't know the proper English word for it (it's called "opmaat" in Dutch). Online dictionaries aren't helping me either... Sorry for that!
I can of course set the signature of the 1st bar to 1/4 and make the last 3/4, but then you see the signature change as well in the score.I guess there most be another way to make an "opmaat". Does somebody know this?
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: Jan Voortwist

{quote:title=Jan Voortwist wrote:}
Maybe a stupid question,{quote}
On the contrary ...!
how do I dedicate a staff style just to the extra region at the beginning of the song?
1 - Do you have a region that starts at the very beginning of the Track? Say bar 1?
2 - Assuming you have a region starting from the very beginning of the song. Cut that existing region at the Right Hand point where you want your 'extra region at the beginning of the song' to end. This should now fit exactly to the rest of the Region on that Track, and when you open the Score Editor there will be a continuous stave of music.
3 - This now can be treated as a discrete Region in its own right. Open the Score Editor on that Region and change the Staff style by going to Layout>Staff Styles
4 - Click on New and a menu will open with a list - from that list select Duplicate - this will give you the same Staff Style as that instrument that was already on that Track.
5 - Double Click the name and Type in your own Name ..say *Piano NEW* - then be sure to TAB out of the box.. Logic 8 does not allow you to change the name if you just click somewhere else. You can then make the changes necessary to that Staff Style as per my example ( ie no Rests)
6 - You will then find that Piano New appears in the list of Staff Styles for use in any other situation.
HTH

How do I add more measures to the beginning of a song?

I have began making a song, and I have all the regions starting right at the beginning, but I would prefer to move them to later in the song so that I can add a nice intro, but I don't want to get them off the right mix.
I am afraid if I move them I won't get them back on the right place relative to the other tracks in the song.
Is there a way to add like 30 measures to the beginning of the song and just move all the other ones equidistant to later in the song.

if you don't know what they are, you obviously didn't add any, so you're fine.
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Adding a few seconds at the beginning of a song

I would like to add a few seconds of silence at the beginning of a song. (Live performance routine requires a couple of seconds for transition and I can't get physically back to the ipod to make it pause while things happen) Can I use the start time / stop time options for this? How?
I have the playlist just exactly as I like it right now. I don't want to insert pauses between all the songs ... I just want this one song to have a three or four second pause at its beginning
HELP!!
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Use the freeware Audacity to produce a 4 seconds of silence file. Audacity may be able to produce the MP3 file, or if not you can use iTunes to encode your 4 sec silence to MP3.
Use a program like MP3Trimmer to combine this silence file with your file.
I suggest combining with MP3Trimmer rather than importing both into Audacity and then reexporting because if you re-export it will re-encode your music MP3 causing additional quality loss. MP3Trimmer file combining is splicing files rather than re-encoding.
Mp3Trimmer is shareware but with fairly liberal trial conditions. There may be freeware that does this but I have MP3Trimmer so I haven't investigated further.

Songs are not playing from the beginning of the track

When using the shuffle feature on iTunes some of the songs songs that are played do not begin from the start of the track.
Others start fine, I have no idea why this should be the case.
Can anyone please advise?
Thanks

There is not a fix that I am aware of.
It is happening to me with synced content of various types-tv shows, movies and podcasts.
Let Apple know about it here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I just got iTunes 11.0. I'm used to being able to return to the beginning of a song by hitting 'enter'. What's the new command for skipping to the head of a song?

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Mmmmmm. Works OK for me. I've tried every variation I can think of. Play from playlist, play from library, shuffle on, shuffle off, single song repeat on/off, playlist repeat on/off.
WAIT !! Now I've found it !! It happens when I have the sidebar hidden and play a playlist from the PLAYLIST pane. Hitting Enter then takes me to the FIRST song in the playlist.
WAIT AGAIN !!! In the time it took to write the above, it changed again and works properly. Well properly is not really true. It works if I stay in the PLAYLIST pane. If I switch to the SONGS, ALBUMS or ARTISTS pane, enter does nothing. BUT, if I switch to the GENRES pane, enter starts the first song there. AND, if I've switched away from the PLAYLIST pane and switch back, enter then starts the first song in the playlist.
WOW !! That was a crazy ride. I think we can safely say that there is something awry.

Ipod skipping to the BEGINNING of a song

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Mmmmmm. Works OK for me. I've tried every variation I can think of. Play from playlist, play from library, shuffle on, shuffle off, single song repeat on/off, playlist repeat on/off.
WAIT !! Now I've found it !! It happens when I have the sidebar hidden and play a playlist from the PLAYLIST pane. Hitting Enter then takes me to the FIRST song in the playlist.
WAIT AGAIN !!! In the time it took to write the above, it changed again and works properly. Well properly is not really true. It works if I stay in the PLAYLIST pane. If I switch to the SONGS, ALBUMS or ARTISTS pane, enter does nothing. BUT, if I switch to the GENRES pane, enter starts the first song there. AND, if I've switched away from the PLAYLIST pane and switch back, enter then starts the first song in the playlist.
WOW !! That was a crazy ride. I think we can safely say that there is something awry.

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It has some songs I would like to keep
There is no legal way to do this- You would need to be using the same AppleID (account)
As far as deleting the songs, in a situation like this, you should restore the iPod which will delete the songs as well as allow you to sync your own music.
For instructions on how to delete/add songs it's best to check the manual:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#ipod
As far as restoring, you didn't mention what model you are using but just choose your model from here (they have step by step instructions):
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/

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Is there any way to import to the iPod these hidden songs at the beginning of the CD, before the first second, that some bands include in their albums?
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Find a CD ripping application that will SEE these tracks. Rip them to your computer, then drop them into iTunes, then sync to iPod.
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What CD do you have with these "Hidden Tracks" - I'm curious.
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marykaymaas wrote:
How do I get rid of dead time at the beginning of the song without messing with the timing of staggered entrances of various tracks/instrument?
either Select All and drag to the left (turn on the Lock Automation menuItem if you have any automation curves)
or
use the Cycle Region to export the exact length you wish:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportexactlength
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Error preflight at the beginning of the download of Lion.

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Any idea?
thx

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