ITunes will not import all songs!

On every CD that I've tried to import songs from, iTunes won't import every song. It just freezes up. I know that it isn't the CD drive because all of the songs were ripped into Windows Media Player. I have even tried to import just one song, but still the same problem. Some songs will be in the Library before the freeze, but will disappear after it. On a few CDs, only half of the tracks were imported. Please help me!

First look at the CD and see if its protected.
Secondly goto the PC makers site (If the CD Burner came witht he PC when you bought it) and look for updates for your model, like Firmware updates for the CD ROM and BIOs/chipset updates for the system.

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ITunes will not import last song of any CD

Hi, hoping someone can help me out with this problem. I've been in the long process of importing all of my CD's on to my new iPod and was having no prblems until recently. From importing CD's perfectly, iTunes now stops from importing the very last song of every CD that I put in. It works right up until the last second of the last song then freezes, forcing me to ctrl/alt/del iTunes. All of the other songs go into the library. And, as an added bonus, iTunes does't play any songs on my computer - not as in I can't hear them, but as in the timer remains at 0.00 when I press play.
Can this problem be fixed at all? Any help would be very gratefully appreciated!

hi Sarah!
From importing CD's perfectly, iTunes now stops from importing the very last song of every CD that I put in. It works right up until the last second of the last song then freezes, forcing me to ctrl/alt/del iTunes
gack. okay, here's a trick from the 4.9 days that sometimes worked in similar circumstances:
RGWK, "Itunes crashes on last song of every CD" #6, 07:22am Sep 7, 2005 CDT
... but post back if you get no joy with that ...
iTunes does't play any songs on my computer - not as in I can't hear them, but as in the timer remains at 0.00 when I press play.
b double
gack. okay, here's my latest information pack on the "no sound" issues:
b noir, "Is Apple ever going to solve our problems?" #1, 10:28am Sep 25, 2005 CDT
but that's two weeks out of date ... for new developments, check in at the "double-click quick fix" thread referenced in the info pack.
it
b may
also be worth downloading and saving a standalone QT 7 installer to your hard drive, and then running an installation from your hard drive (rather than "online"). experimental suggestion, though. i've see this work for
b precisely one
person with a "no sound" issue on a 5.0.1.x upgrade, and other factors apart from the QT 7 standalone install may have contributed to returning Donald's sound. (we certainly did a lot of other things with him):
b noir, "iTunes will not run" #24, 06:00pm Oct 9, 2005 CDT
keep us posted.
love, b

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Peace, Clyde

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Take it out of the itunes library list. If it asks about putting it in the recycle bin, say NO.
Then add it back into the itunes library. Will it sync now?

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ITunes will not import mp4-files.

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Even if your MP4 files meet the above specifications and are added to iTunes successfully, it may still fail to sync to iOS devices. For iPhones, iPads, and video-capable iPods play videos in more specific video formats and codecs.
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I have had several issues with getting itunes to import all the music I have. I have selected the folder that I want itunes to be associated with. But when I go into itunes not all the artists imported. However, if I select add a folder, and then the artist, it imports the artist. I have tried to add the whole folder again, but still does not import all the artist/songs. At first I didn't think that I had imported the CDto the folder, but then when I went into my music folder it was there.
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Hi there!
I've a very similar & the same problem but for me this has been happening ever since iTunes 7.1.5, so not exclusively since 7.2 was launched
In addition to the same problem you're having, iTunes will not sync any of my converted DVD movies and several video podcasts giving me the same error message you mentioned. If it try to play these video's out side of iTunes with QuickTime, I get 'Error -36: An I/O Error' warning and thats it, but I can play with any other media player including the dreaded Windows Media Player! If I copy these files on to a separate HHD, Flash Stick or on to another PC (i.e. so they’re played from not in the iTunes folder in my documents) they all work fine and oddly also with QuickTime, so I'm happy the files are not corrupt. I'm afraid to attempt to play any remaining video's that I managed to sync sometime before this problem in iTunes because when I do, its then that I can never use it again and it gets removed from my iPod!
I can't find anything on this problem anywhere, and I don't know where to go to get help from Apple not that I’m sure they’d be too helpful?
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Thanks
Regards
Jaime
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