Itunes stops playing in middle of song

I have a Mac Mini running Lion and the Mac goes to sleep and stops ITunes from playing. I have reset the sleep mode to never, but that does not solve anything. What is next?

Hello,
Have you blown the dust out lately?
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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ITunes stops playing after a few songs

I am running iTunes on a Macbook Air, the music is stored on a time capsule. I also run the Remote App on the iPad.
I play back songs through the Airport Express and after a few songs, it stops playing (always when a song is over - NEVER during a song). I hit play to start it again but the busy icon shows for a bit and nothing happens.
When I switch the audio output back to "computer" it starts playing, when I switch back to the airport express then, the playback works again - until it eventually stops again.
The Airport Express doesn't seem to be an issue, as we received a NEW one yesterday with the same thing happening.

Hi jakeloveslucy
Thanks for your feedback. However, just to clarify: my iTunes Library is not stored on my TC itself, yet on a separate HD that is USB'd to the TC.
Also I wonder where it's stated that a iTunes Library is 'meant' to be stored locally.
Regards.

Itunes intermittently stops playing in middle of song

Usually, iTunes works great for me, but since version 6 or 7 updates it has intermittently stopped playing in the middle of a song as if it is locked up. iTunes will respond if I restart the song or use the left arrow. Pressing enter restarts the song also. It usually is random but today consistently does it on one song in particular. I’m pretty sure it is not my computer because this is a newly built machine, and iTunes did the same thing on my old HP since version 6 or 7 updates. My old computer also would intermittently drop to half volume randomly and then jump back up randomly (usually after I turned it up to compensate) at inopportune times. This machine hasn’t done that yet (it is running 64 bit iTunes and has only updated from version 8 to the current version) but I’m not convinced it won’t start anytime. Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

Hello,
Have you blown the dust out lately?
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

ITunes stops playing after a few songs (my resolve)

After about 5 songs I was getting perplexed why it would stop playing in the middle of a song (there was no audio) but the play button was still showing. It always happened in the middle of the 5th song or at toward the end and it ended up being my power settings to turn off the monitor after 20 minutes. The monitor never did shut off because it was my plazma tv connected hdmi. (It would flicker and come back on sometimes)
Anyway I run XP MCE on a home made htpc. MCE Tunes (3rd party app to bring iTunes database into MCE). Thought this might help anyone that has this issue.

Sorry...I didn't intend this to be posted in this forum.

ITunes Stops Playing Partway Through a Song, but Isn't Paused

First, the short version of the problem. iTunes will stop partway through a song (not at the same place each time and it happens with any song) but it doesn't pause the song, it looks like it is playing, the icon in the library shows that it's playing, and the play/pause button shows 'pause' (as in it is playing now so the button turns to the 'pause' button) but yet the song isn't playing and the song track bar isn't progressing.
Now on to what steps we've tried that haven't work.
1) Reinstalling iTunes
2) Moving the music library to another hard drive
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I'm at a loss as to what to even try next. Anyone else ever have a similar problem? Any ideas on what could cause such an odd problem?

This was happening to me since I updated to itunes 10.
Here's a solution I found and so far, it seems to work.
• quit itunes
• Go to your user finder > library > preferences
Drag the following 3 files to your desktop:
• com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
• com.apple.iTunes.plist
• com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
Restart your computer. Restart itunes. You can trash the 3 files you dragged to your desktop.
So far this has been working for me.
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IPod mini stops playing in middle of songs

After hemming and hawing for a while, I decided to buy an iPod. After all, all the cool people already had one.
So less than a week ago, I bought a 4 GB iPod mini from Apple's online store. I'm already having a problem.
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I hope you can help me, because my problem is very frustrating. I am listening to my iPod touch, in my car through the car speakers, or through the earbuds. Once a song stops playing and the next song after it starts playing, the second song gets about 20-30 seconds into it, and then it stops. Completely stops, and I look at it and I am back at the home screen. This does not happen every-time, but I still don't know why it does this.
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