Itunes songs play only thirty seconds of song

I bought bout thirty or more songs from itunes and all of them only play about thirty seconds of the song before going to the next song. I tried deauthorizing my computer and reauthorizing it. Does anyone know anything to fix this?

Does the song play in Quicktime Player? If it does then it is an iTunes issue. If it doesn't then it is possible the file was not completely downloaded, or is corrupt.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3712298 - applying system update cleared issue of songs ending early
Solution to purchased songs not playing (2009) - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1934256 - authorization issues and files not playing all the way through
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17382022 - Problem was incomplete files due to poor WiFi connection
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17661693 - issue resolved by re-downloading files or rebuilding library file [note, although the poster says this restored all, in the past the .xml file did not retain all the details of the original library file.]

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Follow the huge discussion here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3970684?tstart=0. There doesn't seem to be a firm solution. 17 sec? Wow! I only get 8 seconds. Apple isn't paying attention to us at all. You may have to preview and purchase songs elsewhere. Some people can't even download.

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