Imported songs show up, but don't play in iTunes
i'm having the strangest problem since last night - whenever i import songs from my hard drive into iTunes, the song shows up and plays fine for the first 5 or 10 minutes it's on there, but then after that i'll click on the song and nothing happens! then if i delete the song out of iTunes, import it again from my hard drive, the exact same thing happens with every song. same when i reinstalled itunes. the rest of my library plays fine as it always has...i'm hoping someone can offer a simple solution to this?? thanks.
hp laptop Windows Vista
hp laptop Windows Vista
having same issue. Imported songs (from CD) show up, but duration of song is 789+ minutes. when i try to play song, ipod & itunes skip over that song(s) and go to songs I purchased thru iTunes. Nothing I'm importing is playing
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There was a short version expressly for people who weren't bothered to read a myriad of text.
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I'm in the process of moving my music collection to a new computer with a bigger hard drive. I installed the latest version of iTunes on the new computer, copied all the folders and contents of the itunes folder to the new computer in the same location.
I bought a couple new songs successfully but now I can't add any of the files from my previous computer to the new library. I was able to import a few songs that iI purchased when on my original machine but now they only play for 45 seconds and jump to the next song in the playlist (if check) And now when I drag and drop songs on the Library to import them absolutely nothing happens.
And yes, the new computer is authorized and the permissions on the folders are read / write.
Any one have an idea of how to fix this? If not, I just going to burn all my songs to CD and import them that way and say so long to iTunes... just too much BS to just move a music library!Sounds like the PC's authroization file is messed up, or else the iTUnes preferences files.
Follow the directions in this article, the SC Info file holds the PC authroization for iTMS songs.
iTunes Does Not Open After Upgrading
And also deleted these 2 preferecnes files:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref
They will all get rebuilt when you open iTunes the next time. It should ask for authorization one last time, is all.
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Try first pausing the first and trying the second song.
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