Ipod always starts halfway through the next song.

Any time I advance to a new song on my ipod it picks up somewhere in the middle of the song. What am I doing wrong?
Is this normal because if it is it's driving me nuts.

This problem occurs when you transfer tags and not the actual song file to the iPod. Make sure that iTunes is pointing to the folder where the music is kept. Go to Edit>Preferences>Advance to check & select the proper location. If you click on a song and see "!" next to the song then the song has been deleted or moved from it's original location and iTunes can't find it. Keep the songs in one location with iTunes pointing to that folder.

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Hi anyone
i am having a problem with itunes, i cannot play tracks and when they do play they play for about 10 seconds then speed through to the end then jump down the next few tracks.
Getting really frustrated as i am a complete novice on this type of thing, any help would be appreciated. i have uninstalled itunes and reinstalled no joy

Dave, you are a god among mere mortal men!
I had used the check to only load certain tracks on my iPod mini that my kids use, while loading everything on my iPod 60GB.
I guess I should come up with a different method for that.
Thank you for clueing me in on how the checkmark works.
I'm a happy man once again.
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TS1424 I downloaded an album, and the download was interrupted. I went back and completed the download, but several songs did not download completely - they only have about half the song, and then it starts to play the next song. How do I recover the res

I downloaded an album, and the download was interrupted. I went to the Store and completed the download, but several songs now appear as partial copies - they end ~ half way through. Is there any way to complete the download?

I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
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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Skipping to the next song half way through...

Recently iTunes has started skipping to the next song when playing sometimes. It doesn't seem to be at set times, and if I go and replay the track it doesn't do it again, so I don't think it is an issue with that particular file, or the stop time. It is fully up to date (I updated it today, and it has done it before and after the update).
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!

hi, if this is also happening to specific songs on your ipod and on itunes, then you have to check the songs. right click on the song on itunes > get info > options and then check your End Time if it's displaying the time (in minutes or seconds) of the song where it will be ending. or try to restart your ipod by pressing the menu button and the center button together for 6 seconds, and if it didn't work out then try to restore your ipod through itunes (make sure that all you music and files will be deleted during restoring your ipod to the factory settings) good luck

Music starts halfway through a song

Just wondered am I doing something wrong.... When I'm listening to my music some tracks start halfway through the song and not at the beginning. Any help would be appreciated

Have you tried updating it and doing a restore with the latest iPod updater (2006-03-23)? You can go here and install the latest updater on your PC and then hook the iPod up and run the updater http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
Doing a restore will wipe everything off the iPod, but once connected to iTUnes, it will load everything back up. More on restoring can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983

HT1725 When I download a song from iTunes into my library, it often says it has downloaded, charges me for it, and on the song in my library shows the full playing time. However, when I play the song, at around halfway through it skips to the next song?

When I download a song from iTunes into my library, it often says it has downloaded, charges me for it, and on the song in my library shows the full playing time. However, when I play the song, at around halfway through it skips to the next song?
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If your country's iTunes Store allows you to redownload purchased tracks, I'd delete your current copies of the dodgy tracks and try redownloading fresh copies. For instructions, see the following document:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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My ipod nano 6 will only play one or two songs then I have to force the next song to play. It will start several songs before settling on one. This just started and I havent changed anything. How to I make it go back to playing songs continuously?

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When I run with my iPhone4, the music just keeps skipping to the next song. I'll start my music, start running, and then the songs keep changing so I can never hear a song. Songs are from iTunes and doesn't happen on iPod. HELP?

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Go to SETTINGS - IPOD - and turn off "Shake to Shuffle"...
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TS3297 I bought an album, two of the twelve songs play about half the way through, then stop, and then the next song in line starts playing. How do I get the songs downloaded so they play to the end?

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Try deleting the problematic file (electing to remove original file if/when prompted) and then re-downloading the file from the iTunes store.
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HT1725 My purchases are only playing halfway through the song then they jump to the next song even though the download has been completed "successfully". Does this mean an incomplete download? How do I rectify this? Please help

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Delete and redownload.
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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

HT1349 Songs stop halfway through and switch to the next song

In iTunes some of my songs stop a little more then halfway and then switch to the next song how can I stop this from doing that ?

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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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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".
Find the items that are not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the items, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" links next to the items.

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Hi lauraleeu,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If your iPod nano isn't advancing to the next track, this article is a good starting point for troubleshooting:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1320
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Ipod always starts halfway through the next song.

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