MP3s on Network Storage appear as MPEG Audio Stream

I store all music on my network attached storage device and map it to my iMac via the AFP protocol. After upgrading to iTunes 10.5.1, all of these Mp3 files now appear as a type 'MPEG Audio Stream' to iTunes and can no longer sync with my iPod or be matched via iTunes Match.

Hi Jens,
I will suggest you to call the support center, cause there are some bugs related to the issue you are having.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/tsd_cisco_small_business_support_center_contacts.html
Regards.

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If it's a stream, you can't sync it to your iPod as it's not physically on your computer. You'd need to actually download it. It sounds as if what you have in your library is a link to the stream.
Where did it come from? Can you check the site to see if they offer an .mp3 or .aac download?

I recently restored my itunes library and many songs imported from CD are now marked mpeg audio stream. I can't play them. Why did this happen?

I recently restored my itunes library and many songs imported from CD are now marked mpeg audio stream. I can't play them. Other imports are just fine. Why did this happen?

If there is a cure you may find the folks over here have more information for you. Repost your question here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_for_mac?view=discussions

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Take a look at the file size, it's probably very small. Streaming means that you don't actually have the snd file... when you play that reference file the audio is streamed over the internet to you (like a radio broadcast, you don't have the recording, but you can listen to it)
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You cannot convert streams, because you're not actually downloading an audio file, but only the link to it.
There are 3 audio capture applications known to me, which can be used to record the streams and add the recordings to iTunes.
Audio Hijack and Audi Hijack Pro can be found here and Wiretap Pro here.
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M
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Hi, welcome to Apple's user-to-user discussion forums.
An audio stream is not a file on your disk or on a cd, it is literally a digital stream that is playing as it is downloading. When you click on "Pause", you are stopping the stream. When you click "Play" again, you are restarting the stream, but there is now download manager for streams, so the stream starts from the beginning of the file on the server side or else from the beginning of the playlist, or, if it is a live radio stream, you will pick the stream up at the current live position.
While some of the stream is cached on your computer, iTunes has no control over the cache, and the stream is not cached as a file, so the cache may only hold the most recent portion of the stream.
I have seen some movie streams that you could pause, backtrack, or move forward (once enough of the stream was downloaded) using Quicktime, but I have seen nothing similar for audio streams short of recording the stream and then playing the resultant file.

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test1234 wrote:
I really should say store bought prices and not online because there may be a chance that I will have to return. Store bought prices are sometimes very cheap.
May stores have websites, Best Buy for example.
What's a netbook? I think you meant mini notebook.
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Anyways, thanks to all. This forum doesn't implement point awards for replies.
Actually it does.
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Hi guys,
Thanks for your prompt advice - I am using CS4 version.
I am trying to create dvd’s from my video files which I created on my sony hard disk camcorder so that I can play them on my dvd player. I am in UK so require PAL format.
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So mpeg and mp3 are not the same.
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If you convert AAC podcast audio files to mp3, they will not appear in the Podcast library, because converting kind of strips the podcast flag from them.
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Copy from iPod to PC
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
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http://www.ipodsoft.com/site/pmwiki.php?n=igadget.Homepage
http://www.copytrans.net/
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Hello, i want to make network storage, where i will store music, films and other stuff.
Can any one help please to choose protocol/technology (FTP, CIFS, NFS....) wich let me play music/films from this network storage without copying it to harddrive of desktop.
I whant that it be like in windows network neighborhood.
I used FTP, CIFS(samba), NFS as protocols in network storage and GNOME and KDE4 in desktop, deadbeef as player and audio file with 432 Mb size. When i try to play it on mounted folder it just does nothing.
Thanks and sorry for my english.

Since you do not mention anything about real streaming (e.g. real streaming server as NAS which servers video streams to corresponding dumb streaming clients) pretty much any file network protocol should server your needs.
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You might have a look here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FtpFs
and here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sshfs
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