Encoding Trouble with Long Songs

Hello everybody! I listen to a lot of groups with exceptionally long songs and i've found that iTunes does a pretty bad job of importing the songs without any types of skipping or distortion. I've tried every format, including AIFF, Lossless, MP3 at 320 kbps, etc. and none does the job within iTunes. Can somebody recommend me a technique to use within iTunes that will eliminate these errors or another program that will do a good job of importing my CDs? Problems are apparent on tracks greater than 10 minutes in length. Thank you!

Have you tried this classic advice from iTunes Help: *Choose Edit > Preferences and click Import Settings. If the “Use error correction when reading Audio CDs” checkbox is not selected, select it. If it's already selected, deselect it.*

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Has anybody ever run into this:
I have to record a real estate book on tape type deal, total of 2-3 hours, each song is set to tempo of 60 so I get more time. There are a total of about 200 takes, 2 tracks.
Here's the problem: when I close out the song and then load it back in, logic tells me that 37 files aren't referenced and when looking at the files they are blank!
After about a week of loading that same song up, the number of ref'd files goes down and then all of the files load up properly. ?????????
I am recording to a SATA drive on the G5 and I tried correcting permissions and even loading the project manager to see if that helps. It only happens when I'm doing a particularly long song file.
Any thoughts?
G5 1.6 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Your problem could be related to this:
http://youtu.be/NIL071_uBo8
Cheers!

Zen - AAC: Playback issue with long songs (± 15 min.)

Hi,
I made some tests with AAC Itunes plus files, and I've experiencing playback issue with long songs (when it's about 5 minutes or longer, like the second movement of Beethoven's third).
During?playback, there is random artifacts added, never at the same place.
I cleaned up my Zen 6 Gb and even formated it, and the problem still occurs. The latest firmware is installed.
Is this issue has already been reported?
Thanks.

The Zen does in fact support AAC playback, but it's tricky--I've been dealing with this issue for a while, and I think it's finally solved. First of all, when you say "skipping," do you mean that the track skips ahead further into the same track, or does it skip to the next song with an error message like "There was an error with the audio file"? My problem was with the latter. There are a few possible solutions:
. Delete the erroneous track from your Zen, then re-transfer; in my experience, this corrects the problem, although sometimes it takes a couple of tries.
2. Make sure your AAC file is in iTunes Plus format (you can choose it in the ripping options in iTunes).
3. If you haven't already done so, upgrade to Windows 7. This means upgrading to WMP2, which recognizes AAC files and can transfer them to your Zen. It also means you can download a version of Creative Centrale (from the Creative Support site) specifically for the Zen, which replaces the Zen Media Explorer and Creative Mediasource, and which seems to handle AAC transfers much better (so far, I haven't noticed any of the playback errors, but you never know!). By the way, WMP2 and Creative Centrale will also transfer album art easily to the Zen.
Hope this is helpful.

Trouble with managing songs manually on 2 computers

I usually manually manage my songs on my iTouch so that i can add songs from different computers and i won't only have songs synced from one computer.
However after buying iPhone4, I've been having trouble with doing the same.
Even when i have already ticked the "manually manage music and videos" box on my computer, the box will be unticked when i plug it into another computer. And when i tick the box it says that i have already synced to one iTunes library and i need to erase and sync it to that computer.
So what is the point of MANUALLY managing my music and videos when i can't do so without erasing everything? I don't usually have problems with this on my iTouch.

Incorrect. Up until extremely recently, you'd do all your Syncing on one Mac, but could still plug your iPhone into another Mac to manually drop music/videos onto it (as long as the Manually Manage option was checked while on your main Mac.)
I'm not sure if it was an iTunes update or an iOS update that killed this fantastic feature, but something sure did. Now if I have some tunes on my home (secondary) Mac that I want to toss onto my iPhone before leaving for work in the morning, I can't! Argh!
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Am I having encoding trouble with this script?

G'day,
I have a simple applescript, intended to get the title and url from current webpage in order to log to a text-based journaling app called Day One:
set out_file to "/Users/home/.tmp_dayone"
tell application "Safari"
     set current_tab to current tab of front window
     set tab_name to name of current_tab as Unicode text
     set get_url to URL of current_tab as Unicode text
end tell
set text_out to "Read on the Web: " & tab_name & " " & get_url & " " as Unicode text
set out_file_ref to open for access POSIX file out_file with write permission
try
     write text_out to out_file_ref
end try
close access out_file_ref
try
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end try
delay 0.3
try
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The script is obviously not very robust but mostly works. However...
...At this page http://www.ppowgallery.com/selected_work.php?artist=25 the
name of current_tab
returns this title:
"P·P·O·W | The Estate of Martin Wong | Selected Text"
Saving this to a text file and asking a shell subprocess to write a new DayOne entry from the .txt, only creates a blank entry in the journal. And I can't figure out why!
If I use less at the terminal I can see that the ' · ' character is written as '<E1>' in the .txt. Is this what is causing the problem? If I enter
file -I .tmp_dayone
at the terminal the response says the file is ISO-8859-1 encoded. I don't know if any of this is relevant; I am an amateur at all of this stuff.
Why wouldn't applescript be writing to a file as 'UTF-8" ?
Cheers!

Fair enough! I just added on errors in...
I am suspicious of the ' · ' characters. Do you think they are a likely source of the problem?
Here is the script now:
tell application "Safari"
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          set tab_name to name of current_tab as Unicode text
          set get_url to URL of current_tab as Unicode text
end tell
set text_out to "Read on the Web:
" & tab_name & "
" & get_url & "
set out_file to "/Users/css/.tmp_dayone"
set out_file_ref to open for access POSIX file out_file with write permission
try
write quoted form of text_out to out_file_ref
on error
          display dialog "Couldnt write to tmp file"
end try
close access out_file_ref
try
          do shell script "/usr/local/bin/dayone new < " & out_file
on error
          display dialog "shell couldnt write to Day One"
end try
delay 0.3
try
do shell script "rm " & out_file
on error
          display dialog "shell couldnt remove tmp file"
end try

Is anyone else experiencing trouble with removing songs off your iPhone via iTunes?

iTunes 11 is so difficult to work! I can't even access the option to remove songs off my iPhone whilst it's connected to iTunes. Not sure if there's a super complicated way to do it but it's so unconvenient which I really hate. Any solutions? Seeing as I can't contact Apple through email I'm asking the community as they seem to know more about iTunes than the actual company does.
Thanks in advance, guys..

Hello Kizzrawr,
Thanks for the question, and welcome to the Apple Support Communities.
I understand you are having issues syncing your iPhone 5 with iTunes 11, specifically trying to remove songs. I can definitely help, however the answer is going to be based on how you have configured you iPhone to sync.
First, you may want to enable the sidebar to bring back the familiarity of past iTunes versions:
iTunes 11: Frequently used features
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5649
Afterwards, your device should be displayed if connected:
We'll want to click on it, and choose the Music tab at the top. If sync music is checked, which option do we have selected? "Entire Library" or "Selected playlists, artists…" - the latter of which may be best for your needs.
Otherwise, you can always manually manage the music on your iPhone. The following resource may provide more information on how to do so:
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
Thanks,
Matt M.

Trouble with loading songs onto ipod

I was trying to load some of my existing cd's onto my ipod and after a while it wouldnt load anymore songs on. And after several times of trying to get a cd onto my ipod, it deleted all the songs I had already in it off my ipod. So I had to go back and load all the previously existing songs back onto my ipod.
I dont know why it isnt letting me load some of my cd's on. One cd it only loaded 1 song from the 12 that were on the cd.
I dont want to risk trying to load another cd on if its going to erase everything again.
Anyone know whats going on?

I'm not sure about the whole problem, but for the CD problem, single click to hightlight the first song on the list that comes up when you use the CD. Then,while holding shift, click the last song on the list. If you'be done this correctly, you should see all the songs between the top and bottom hightlighted. Then, click and drag the songs into the library and they should all download. The first will download, then the next when that finishes, and you get the idea, P.S. you do not need to use shift when you drag the songs to the library.
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I downloaded my library, songs, podcasts, videos etc... but when I hit the "Ipod" button it goes directly to the music library. The screen changes from vertical to horizontal and all I can do is play songs. I cannot get back to the main Ipod screen. Any help???

If you live in a Region that allows re-downloading Music...
Delete the Song(s) and re-download...
See Here > Download Past Purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
If not... Contact iTunes Customer Service
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HT1451 I am having trouble with particular songs from albums I purchased that don't finish Playing ? any thoughts ?

I purchased several Albums and there are about 20% of the songs stop either after a few seconds or a minute into the song . Is there anyway to fix this ? its not my pc as it also does this on my Ipod very annoying I might add .

If you live in a Region that allows re-downloading Music...
Delete the Song(s) and re-download...
See Here > Download Past Purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
If not... Contact iTunes Customer Service
Apple Support iTunes Store Contact Us

Trouble with downloading songs from itunes to iphone

I have purchased around 600 songs over the years many of them i had on an older ipod. I recently tried to download all songs to my iphone half of the songs downloaded to a playlist and most say "download error tap to retry, after several retry attempts it wont download. I have even opened my phone up to our home's wi fi....please help

hi jason,
imho, the lack of manual music and video management
is a mistake. i've had 4 ipods over the years and have always used
manual mode. the playlist hack works okay
and is only mildly cumbersome.
however i tend to buy music from itunes both on my
imac at home and my pc at work. i've always simply
been to plug in my ipod to either computer and grab my
purchases, in either location. now, my iphone is "locked"
to my imac. i'm sure apple had a good reason to leave out
manual management, but i would suggest revisiting this
asap.

Trouble with prewiew songs

When I try to preview a song, after 6-10 seconds, it stops the prewiew of the song. Is there some way to fix this. I just downloaded the newest version of Itunes today.

Because "500" can only be an estimate. Several things affect an iPod's capacity -- song lengths and the bitrate of songs are the primary variables that determine how large your library is. To a much lesser extent, artwork that you've added to songs, and other things like Notes and Calender entries also consume space.

Trouble with storing songs

I recently bought a 2GB ipod nano, and was told it stores 500 songs. But when I update it, it only stores 433. Why??!!

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I am finding FCPX has trouble with mixed audio sample rates

I am just putting this thread out there to ask if anyone has experienced issues with mixed sample rates in the timeline? Specifically I have noticed that a timelilne with an audio rate of 48KHz with have troubles with a song at 44.1KHz - this is irrespective of what sort of video codec I am using. It happens to me a lot lot with stills actually.
If I preconvert to 48KHz, I do not have the same issue. Just asking if this has been discussed or mentioned elsewhere so I can figure out if it is just me.
Thanks

You might want to duplicate the capture preset for DV/NTSC 48k and change the audio to 32k.
Then try that.
But I'd also change the JVC's audio settings to record in 48 while you're waiting. Should be able to do it... cheap or not.
CaptM

I have been having a lot of trouble with the latest itunes update and my ipod classic 80Gb i.e. being unable to sync songs, but now i have no files at all on my ipod, it is completely blank when i view it from my computer. I need help, please, anybody.

As it says above, i have been having a lot f trouble with my ipod classic and the latest itunes update, i was unable to sync songs or anything to it and have tried every conceivable 'fix' i could find. i have run an itunes diagnostic and the results are posted below. a major problem is that when i try and view my ipod through my computer it displays nothing at all on the ipod, no files or anything, this may be the problem but i have no idea how it has happened or how i could resolve it.
This ipod holds huge sentimental value and i am loathe to buy a new one! If anybody can help it is greatly appreciated, than kyou in advanced.
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K50IJ
iTunes 11.1.5.5
QuickTime not available
FairPlay 2.5.16
Apple Application Support 3.0.1
iPod Updater Library 11.1f5
CD Driver 2.2.3.0
CD Driver DLL 2.1.3.1
Apple Mobile Device 7.1.1.3
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.64.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0038B8600B98D1E0
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2014-03-21 16:52:39.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
Genius ID: 2fd81a1f13cf3ff25a8b4f0e8e725116
**** Device Connectivity Tests ****
iPodService 11.1.5.5 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 11.1.5.5 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
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Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2935. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2936. Device is working properly.
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Here is what worked for me:
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