Music on iTunes keeps skipping

I have the latest version of iTunes on my computer & every since I downloaded it all of my music skips after playing for about 5 seconds (like when your CD has a scratch). The only exception is the new album that I just purchased off of iTunes last week, it will play no problem.

My library started skipping today as well - very frustrating. First time since iTunes 1.0 has this ever happened. Any other ideas out there? Does not seem to matter is it's a personal CD rip or if it's a purchased download.

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ITunes keeps skipping songs on my iPhone and iPad

This is a problem as many have reported. I have about 4500 songs on iMac that are combination of my own CD's and purchased music from iTunes. I have several dozen songs or more that are skipped on both my iPhone 5 and iPad air. I have been to two different genius bars to try to rectify this problem to no avail. For instance I have the CD Stage Fright by The Band. Even though on both my both my phone and iPad it shows the songs, song 1,2,3 and 5 won't play. I have tried everything. I have turned off iTunes match on my iMac. Turned off iMatch on my phone, deleted the music on the phone. I then turned iTunes match back on my iMac to refresh. Turned on iMatch on the phone. Now my entire library of songs are in the iCloud. I proceeded to download the Stage Fright album on the phone and once again the 4 songs will not play while the other 6 songs from the album will. This isn't a case where iTunes doesn't sell the album. They do and every song is available for purchase. Each one of the four songs plays perfectly on my iMac. I have never done an exact count of the songs that won't play on my iPhone or iMac. That would involve trying to listen to everyone of the 4500 songs. Another CD in particular is the Power and Glory from NFL Films, the music of Sam Spence.
Some of the clips are spoken tracks and some are music. I would say about 5 or 6 tracks will not play but get skipped over.
There is some glitch from the various updates of iTunes and iMatch over the last couple of years that have caused this. I could understand if tracks were somehow corrupted but they are not. It varies from artist to artist and album to album. Sometimes it is only one song on a particular CD.
I am purchasing the iPhone 6 next week. If no one can come up with solution can someone tell me how do a hard sync of my music from iMac to my iPhone. When you do a hard sync to back up with phone with the cable to mac when you click on music it says your songs are in the iCloud. When I restore my new phone from back up how would one do the hard sync where each of the 4500 songs are uploaded to phone. I know this is a long process as this is what everyone did before iMatch.

Since this has been posted I guess no one has a solution. The only other reply is someone else had the same problem. Apple doesn't care because they would prefer their solution which is to buy the tracks from them and not load your own CD's on iTunes. Somewhere in the cloud the tracks that don't play on my iPhone are sitting there. Makes absolutely no sense that the other uploaded tracks work fine. I guess I'm going to have to test all 4500 tracks to get the exact count and then go over the Apple store to see if they can submit this to a software engineer at the Apple campus to find an answer.

Itunes keeps skipping!!!

This is really annoying. I have a video enabled ipod, and had to download the latest version of itunes to be able to put new music videos on it since getting my laptop.
Anyway, since putting on this new version of itunes, songs sporadically skip. Every single one. It's like the thing takes coffee breaks.
This did not happen before!
Can anyone give me any advice to resolve this? Am I being stupid?

Songs would stutter for 1st few seconds for me on just a few albums.
Turning off Crossfade in Itunes' Preferences seems to fix this for me.
Brought up task manager and noticed itunes sucking all CPU cycles while music stuttering. Just the 1st few seconds.
Makes sense to me that if CPU has no more cycles left then sound quality would be impacted.
Pure speculation on my part, but perhaps the cpu is having a hard time crossfading two mp3 tarcks with different VBR bit rates.
I do hope you manage to fix your problem.
Good luck.
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I am having trouble plugging in my ipods to add music and itunes keeps saying i need to uninstall itunes and re install it won't i lose all my music?

Am i going to lose my music if i uninstall then re install?

check all payment parts are filled in and u have endered you last 3 digs on back on card used to set up account
if using an other computer make sure all fileds are right and filled in
and u enter to itunes sec code

Itunes keeps skipping, still not answered again!!!!!

i asked this question a few days ago, but no one answered and im wondering why. now all i want to do is downgrade to an earlier version of itunes because i never had these problems with itunes 6. plus i was able to organize my library from 0-9,a-z. now its only a-z and the artist from 0-9 like 3 doors down, 50 cent, 2pac are all at the bottom with no choice of organizing it how i like it.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Are all of your files in AAC format? If you have any MP3's, add them to your library in Windows Media player and test them. Does each song skip in all of the same places, or is the skipping different each time you play the same song? If the skipping is inconsistent within the same, song, I'd suggest reinstalling iTunes and QuickTime:
Go into Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
Remove these applications:
1. Apple Software Update
2. Apple Mobile Device Support
3. iPod for Windows (this may or may not exist, either way, it's not needed so we can remove it)
4. iTunes
5. QuickTime
Restart the computer
Download & Install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/
Launch the Utility: Start > Programs > Windows Install Clean Up
Select any of the above mentioned applications, and click Remove
Restart the computer again
Download & install iTunes again from here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
If the song skipping is consistent each time you play the same song, it could well be an issue with the files. Do you have a backup that you can restore files from? If you do, try that.
CG

Itunes keeps skipping, still not answered!!!

i asked this question a few days ago, but no one answered and im wondering why. now all i want to do is downgrade to an earlier version of itunes because i never had these problems with itunes 6. plus i was able to organize my library from 0-9,a-z. now its only a-z and the artist from 0-9 like 3 doors down, 50 cent, 2pac are all at the bottom with no choice of organizing it how i like it.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Are all of your files in AAC format? If you have any MP3's, add them to your library in Windows Media player and test them. Does each song skip in all of the same places, or is the skipping different each time you play the same song? If the skipping is inconsistent within the same, song, I'd suggest reinstalling iTunes and QuickTime:
Go into Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
Remove these applications:
1. Apple Software Update
2. Apple Mobile Device Support
3. iPod for Windows (this may or may not exist, either way, it's not needed so we can remove it)
4. iTunes
5. QuickTime
Restart the computer
Download & Install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/
Launch the Utility: Start > Programs > Windows Install Clean Up
Select any of the above mentioned applications, and click Remove
Restart the computer again
Download & install iTunes again from here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
If the song skipping is consistent each time you play the same song, it could well be an issue with the files. Do you have a backup that you can restore files from? If you do, try that.
CG

When I run with my iPhone4, the music just keeps skipping to the next song. I'll start my music, start running, and then the songs keep changing so I can never hear a song. Songs are from iTunes and doesn't happen on iPod. HELP?

When I run with my iPhone4, the music just keeps skipping to the next song. I'll start my music, start running, and then the songs keep changing so I can never hear a song. Songs are from iTunes and it doesn't happen when running with my iPod. Suggestions?

Go to SETTINGS - IPOD - and turn off "Shake to Shuffle"...
John

How can I get an album to play in order on Itunes? The songs keep skipping all around to other albums that I did not want to listen to at that time?

How can I get an album to play in order on Itunes? The songs keep skipping all around to other albums that I did not want to listen to at that time?

It sounds like you might have the shuffle button at the bottom left of the iTunes (the button with the squiggly lines).
If that's not the case, then maybe you just need to sort your library by album by clicking the album tab at the top.
Is your music in a playlist, or are you trying to play it from the entire library?

Re: iTunes keeps opening by itself and starts playing music

I have something really strange going on.
My iTunes keeps opening by itself and starts playing music. I cannot figure this out. I turned off the "Sync Via Wireless" on all my gadgets, but this continues to happen. This has woken me up in the middle of the night until I got so tired of it I just shut my Mac down.
Anybody hear of this? Know what to do?

I had the same problem - and as well as opening by itself iTunes was skipping from track to track like crazy. But then I found a post from a few years ago that fixed this.
Connect your iPhone to your iMac and uncheck the box that says 'Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected'. Problem solved!
Hope this works for you.

The music app on my Iphone 5 is acting up, it keeps skipping songs and wont allow the to play. You can see the music icon the on notification bar play and pause. When i go back to the app is states the url is not responding. I have restored it.

The music app on my Iphone 5 is acting up, it keeps skipping songs and wont allow the to play. You can see the music icon the on notification bar play and pause. When i go back to the app is states the url is not responding. I have restored it from the backed up cloud save. It is the music app, I played music on pandora and it worked fine. I think it must be the app or the ios.

restore with itunes not from an itunes backup or cloud save they do absolutely nothing only a clean restore will solve your problem

ITunes 7 keeps skipping, can I get iTunes 6 back?

Hello. I have had iTunes 7 for a few months, but it keeps skipping when I am trying to do somthing else on the internet, like load a new page, or if I'm scolling fast. Is there a way to get iTunes 6 back, or can this be fixed? Thanks.

I just uninstalled 7.x and went back to 6.0.5.20 this morning due to a different issue. iTunes 7.x doesn't work with Roku MP3 player so I had to revert to the older version.
If you have all your music under one main directory (like C:MP3 or something like that) then it is easy to revert back. When I installed 6.x it wouldn't come up because it said I had a library from a later version, so I just deleted the .itl and .xml library files and then recreated them. Just startup iTunes and go to "File/Add Folder to Library" browse to your top MP3 directory and it will add everything. Only takes a few minutes. I think the only issue would be if you use the ratings that those get lost but I don't use that anyways.
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My iphone6 downloaded music keeps skipping songs, anyone else having this problem?

I transferred music from Iphone4s to Iphone 6 and when playing music keeps skipping over songs continuously. Even when you move it to a song, it will keep jumping to other songs. Is anyone having this problem or do you know how to fix?
I have had the phone for over a month and so far, am not happy with at all. Hopefully, I will learn to love but not there yet at all.
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I've had this problem before and its when itunes screws up on syncing. the only way ive been able to fix it is by restoring my iphone. try this and make sure to back up before restoring!

My iPod keeps skipping music after I upgraded to IOS 7, I would tap a song and it wouldn't play all 308 of my songs, it would skip

I can't play my music, it keeps skipping when I tap on it. I tried everything and nothing is working. Thank you so much in advance. I appreciate it!

If your music was purchased in iTunes you can always redownload it for free... but without any backups.. there's no other way to get the music back.

Itunes music and videos online skip multiple times throughout

I noticed this problem a couple of weeks ago and it has gotten worse in the last couple of days. Whenever I watch videos online they will freeze up but the sound will keep going. Also, when I listen to music on itunes the song will skip multiple times, about every 20 seconds.
I have looked at my activity monitor to make sure I don't have any programs that aren't in use and up and running. I have cleared out my cache files. I have plenty of free disk space (this computer is brand new)
I also have made all of the necessary updates to my computer. Itunes skipping only started happening when I updated to the newest version (10.1.1) last week.
Could anyone please tell me what I can do so everything stops skipping?!?
Thank you!

Whenever I watch videos online they will freeze up but the sound will keep going.
Make sure you are using the latest versions of Perian, Flip4Mac, VLC, Real Player and Adobe Flash Player.
when I listen to music on itunes the song will skip multiple times, about every 20 seconds.
Itunes skipping only started happening when I updated to the newest version (10.1.1) last week.
Could anyone please tell me what I can do so everything stops skipping?!?
Try the iTunes forum area - http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=149
(this computer is brand new)
You can always call Apple tech support. You have 90 days of free support. If you have Apple Care it's 3 years. Either way, take full advantage of it.

Why does iTunes keep deleting music from off my iPhone

Ok so my music from iphone keeps deleting itself. I keep having to restore this dumb phone only to lose my information days and sometimes hours later. This is the final straw for me. I've restored this phone 20 times in a week! Im tired of dealing with all of these technical issues so when my contract is up I'm done with this thing. Is there ANYTHING I can do in the meantime to keep from losing my music.

I'll continue the discussion. I find the item in question. There was an app that I had deleted from my iTunes but was still on my iPhone dspite numerous syncs. I deleted the separately from my iPhone and no longer received the warning message described above.
Now however, when I delate an app in iTunes not only does the app stay on the iPhone but I do not even get the warning message.
My next step is to perform a restore. Perhaps this will clear up both this problem and a series of other issues like the wi-fi on/off randomly greying out on the iPhone and having all of my music on the iPhone disappearing after a sync.

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