ITunes fails to play music!

iTunes won't play music from any of my playlists, my Library, or the Music Store. The songs play on my ipods though. I would absolutely love some help. Again the music won't play on my playlists, library, or music store.

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I just updated to iTunes 11.2.2 on my macMini following an update to OS X 10.9.3. I have my music library stored on an external 1TB firewire disk and some on a second gen iPod. The iPod music is accessable and will play but the music on the external disk, while showing up correctly in iTunes, will not play. I can't even play the music from within finder (no play icon on the music file icon in finder.) I can use the right click menu option to show a music item in iTunes in Finder and it knows right where it is so it seems itunes is fully aware of the libraries location on the external drive.
One additional point is that I also install Xcode 6 Beta which would not install with iTunes opened. I was wondering if the beta of Xcode 6 is at issue? If is what will be needed to backout that instalation? What changes does Xcode 6 do that affects iTunes in the first place? Maybe it isn't Xcode 6 but something else just not sure.

A few possibilities here:
1) It's possible the update caused iTunes to loose the link to your Library:
check the advanced tab look at the first item named "iTunes Media Folder location"
even if this appears to be correct, wouldn't hurt to click the "Change" button and point to your library
RESTART itunes immediately and see if this helps.
2) Is there a chance that your external drive wasn't mounted before launching iTunes? I know that this is problem on Windoze, maybe Mac too?
3) see an old link named "
Re: Using an external disk for iTunes
( https://discussions.apple.com/message/11037477#11037477 )
4) There's always the possibility that Apple (in it's infinite wisdom) has removed the option supporting external disks: however, if this were the case I'd expect to see numerous posts on the topic.
ONE WARNING:
Don't sync your iPod to your iTunes library till you resolve this.
HTH, Alix

My itunes has stopped playing music. I have unintalled all apple apps and reinstalled and updated but nothing has worked. What can I do to fix this?

My itunes has stopped playing music. I recently downloaded more music and now it has stopped playing, it says it is playing but there is no sound and the time bar does not move from 0. I have uninstalled all apple apps on my laptop and reinstalled and then updated the software. I have tried 'repair' aswell but nothing has worked.

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ITunes doesn't play music after sleeping mode.

iTunes doesn't play music. I try to start any song by remote app in iPhone from sleeping mode of mac mini.
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But when I try to start the music nothing is happen.
The button Play/pause doesn't work and the play-bar is not moving.
This issue have appeared after upgrade to iTunes 11 and new remote app.
After reboot iTunes everything is ok, but in a sleep mode I have the same problem.
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My itunes no longer plays music.

My itunes no longer plays music. This is both songs from my library and any songs I select from the itunes store to sample. I can still buy songs and they sync to my ipod but again they will not play on iTunes. I have the latest iMac

Hi there dryval76!
There are a couple of reasons for seeing an issue such as that. I have a couple of articles that can help you troubleshoot and find out the source of the issue. The first is an article about troubleshooting issues with playing songs in iTunes, and it can be found here:
iTunes 11 for Mac: If you have trouble playing music or other audio
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12135
If the issue is happening in all areas of your computer, not just iTunes, then you will want to reference this article:
Troubleshooting issues with no audio from built-in speakers on Macs
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1574
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

ITunes won't play music and won't display some of my album art.

iTunes won't play music and won't display some of my album art. I'll click play but the song wont play and some of my album art doesnt appear anymore. When I go on iTunes music store non of the pictures will appear it will just be black where a picture should be. What can i do to fix all of this?????

I am having the exact same problem and have been trying to solve it for a couple of weeks. So far I havent found a soulution. But if you get one can you please let me know? Good Luck

Ever since I updated the operating system, itune doesn't play music on iphone 4. if it plays, it plays only one song and gets stuck.

Ever since I updated the operating system, itune doesn't play music on iphone 4. If it plays, it plays only one song and gets stuck. I've tried to reconnect to the computer to see whethere there has been missing portion during the upgrade... but not really. does anyone have the same issue?

What does "gets stuck" mean?
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ITunes won't play music videos.

iTunes won't play music videos.
Posted: Jan 14, 2008 2:23 AM
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Hey guys, here's my problem.
I had some major issues with OSX last week that a trip to the Apple Store couldn't fix. Their only advice was to save all my pictures, music, documents, etc. and reformat. I did that yesterday. I reinstalled everything and then downloaded all the most recent updates.
Today, I can play all the music I own in iTunes (music imported from CDs, bought from other sites, and music bought from iTunes itself). However, it won't play any of the music videos I have (all bought off iTunes).
I have authorized the computer again and again. When I try to open the videos in Quicktime it tells me that I don't have permission to play them and that I need to authorize the computer.
I'm lost. Any help?

Yup, this Audio but no Video WAS exactly the same trouble I was having, on my MacBook and iMac but not the other 2 MacBooks. This was due to the speaker settings at the bottom right hand corner of the iTunes window. I do use multiple speakers via Airtunes, on the two that were having trouble but not the other two, and although the speakers were only set to the computer it still wouldn't play the video content.
Whilst the audio (of the music video) was playing I then went to reselect multiple speakers, which brought up the "*failure to connect to remote speakers network refused connection*" warning, then I unchecked the remote speakers to leave just the "Computer" and hey presto the video came to life.
Thank you Charles C n Miami and hope this extra info helps.
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ITunes will not play music videos through airplay

This is a specific user account issue. If I create a new account I do not have this issue. That being said I really want to solve this for my existing user login.
Music Videos (and tagged as such) play in iTunes fine.
If I select my AppleTV (which is listed as an airplay device). It completely ignores the selection and continues to play on my Mac. I am unable to play Music Videos over airplay.
When playing music I am able to select any airplay device and it works fine.
When playing movies I am able to select any airplay video device and it works fine.
If I change the Music Video tag to Movies it plays fine
If I change it to Home Videos it plays fine.
If I try to launch iTunes in safe mode it fails to play at all because of the lack of Quicktime support.
Obviously it's something in my ~/Library that is messing it up somehow.
The only plugin I have is AudioScrobbler.bundle and removing launching iTunes does not solve it.
I've tried recreating all of my iTunes preference files and that doesn't solve the issue.
It's maddening!
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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I have narrowed it down to the ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.iTunes.(incredibly long hash).
Removing this file causes a new one to be regenerated and that solved nothing.
Removing the ~/Library/iTunes directory and the ByHost preferences file and rebooting did work temporarily.
There was only one plugin (AudioScrobbler.bundle) in the iTunes directory.
I was able to play a music video and select the AppleTV and then broadcast to it. This lasted last then a few hours and now it's back to the way it was before. Select the AppleTV is silently ignored.
Highly frustrating. I have a broke and fixed version of the com.apple.iTunes ByHOST preference file but doing a diff of the two is useless as most of the xml entries are long strings of hash values. No human discernable difference between the working and not working files. At this point I defintely want to file a bug report.

Problem with iTunes. I have Windows 8 on a new laptop. Installed latest version of iTunes. Can play music in My Library but when I click on Itunes Store I get the message "iTunes has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.

I have a new laptop with Windows 8 as operating system. Installed latest version of iTunes ontop computer. I can play music in My Library but when I click on iTunes, I get the message " iTunes has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify if a solution is available."
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 Cheers, Tom

ITunes no longer plays music

All of the sudden my itunes stopped playing music. When I try to play a song, the song info appears in the menu area but the diamond does not move along the song bar and the little speaker icon by the song title in the playlist does not have lines coming out of it. I downloaded a video from the itunes store and it worked fine, but music files still do not play.
I have tried the solution listed by Apple and it does not help. I have also uninstalled quicktime and installed quicktime standalone and it didn't help either. I've updated windows, itunes, and quicktime. The files work if I use windows media player but some of the purchased songs won't open and have a lock in the corner of the icon.
I've tried the solutions listed in previous posts and nothing seems to work!!! HELP!!!!

No, the song doesn't play if I click on it in itunes and it doesn't work if I go into the music folder and launch it from there. itunes lauches if I try to open the file from the music folder but then it doesn't play. I've tried double clicking, right clicking play, hitting the play button in the menu...nothing works.

ITunes crashing while playing music on external drive

I've just completed the consolidation of several libraries into one (see the discussion of this at (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=583557&tstart=0).
Currently, 1/2 of my library resides on my internal hard drive and the other 1/2 is now sitting on an external hard drive. During the consolidation phase - I selected the option not to make a copy into the iTunes folder.
While consolidating - my iTunes would occassionaly freeze and cause my iMac to lock up, forcing a hard reboot. After restarting - I finally completed the consolidation even with a few more crashes.
Now - when I try to play music that is located on the external hard drive - my system will occasionally locks up.
Is there a problem with libraries residing on external devices? Since I had some crashes during the consolidation - do I need to rebuild permissions or another perform other maintenance steps.
Thanks any ideas/suggestions
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Itunes will not play music or other media files suddenly.

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Hi santonss,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You may find these articles helpful as starting points for troubleshooting iTunes and your Mac:
Troubleshooting issues with no audio from built-in speakers on Macs
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1574
iTunes 11 for Mac: If you have trouble playing music or other audio
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12135
All the best,
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Why do some of my Stations on iTunes Radio stop playing music?

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No one hear has any idea why you are having a problem without a lot more information. Have you checked Sync only checked songs? Have you checked "Manually manage music and videos"? Are ANY songs transferrring, or None? Are all of the songs purchased with the same iTunes account? ARE they purchased iTunes songs or from another source? Are you using the same computer all the time (the iPhone can sync music from only one computer at a time)?

ITunes 10 not playing music

Hi all!
I just upgraded to iTunes 10 and no music is playing either in my library or in the iTunes store whatsoever. iTunes recognizes the length of the song, and I can move the progress bar, but hitting play results in not playing. The progress bar doesn't move, and the song is not playing. Before you mention it... YES, I'm sure the player is not on "pause" or "stop".
I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, and tried the "forget all remotes" process that other forums had mentioned, but nothing appears to be working.
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Alright,
I fixed it. If you can call it that!!
It is not very technical or laborious. Actually anyone can pull it off but to be precise you would have to live in Canada... make that Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
All I did was walk over to Write-Impressions and purchased four cards and then picked up some milk at the local grocer. Specifically organic milk. Walked home and hit play. And, voila, the sound started bouncing off my walls, floor and ceiling.
Still stumped.. but at least I can hear Louis Armstrong in the background.
Sorry, I know, it wasn't much help but hopefully this was a long enough distraction to put a smile on your frown; even for a second or two.
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