Music playback issues

I recently downloaded a music album from the itunes store and over 50% of the songs will not play all the way through when I try to listen to them. They play for a few seconds or maybe a minute and then they stop and the player goes to the next song listed and the cycle will repeat itself. I don't know what the problem is or how to fix it. Somebody please help me because I purchased this music using my own money and I would hate to have to redownload it and spend even more money only to have the same thing happen all over again.

I'm assuming you didn't buy these songs and they are MP3s -- if so, right click on them in iTunes and do a "Convert to AAC" and see if the converted song plays any better on the iPhone.

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