Music plays for 2 seconds and quits

I have had great luck with my iPod touch over the last year. I just upgraded to the 3.0 software and after purchasing a couple albums through the iTunes store, the music won't play for more than 2 seconds. I am also not able to browse through my library on my iPod touch. I have tried all of the general troubleshooting tips except restoring the iPod. Any ideas what is causing the problem?

if none of the other troubleshooting steps work, you should restore it. will almost certainly fix it. fixes all sorts of things.

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Previewing itunes music plays for 5 seconds and then stops

Hi and Help! When I attempt to preview a song on itunes, the song plays for about five seconds and then ends.

Perhaps try resetting your iTunes Store Cache.
Go "Edit > Preferences". In the Advanced tab, click the "Reset cache" button shown in the following screenshot:
... and then click OK.
Restart your iTunes, and head back to the Store. Are you getting full previews now?

I have a few songs that I purchased that either will not play or play for a minute and quit. None of the suggestions in the Help section apply to me. What do I need to do?

I have a few songs that I purchased that either will not play or play for a minute and quit. None of the suggestions in the Help section apply to my problem. What do I need to do?

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HT1725 i downloaded an album and one song only plays for 3 seconds and then skips to the next song. I can't get it to re-download either. What am I supposed to?

This is the second time that I've downloaded an album and one song off of it will play for 3 seconds and then skip to the next song. I've tried everything under the iTunes help and nothing has worked. Any ideas?

Why can't you delete it and redownload it?
If still problem contact iTunes
Apple - Support - iTunes - Contact Us

Music only plays for 15 seconds and then goes to another song

I upgraded to ios 6. Since then, my old songs only play for 15 seconds. Anything purchased after the upgrade, plays the whole song. Anyone ????

Sure your gone for the day, but no luck. Still get 15 sec and then on to the next song.

I bought 2 songs from itunes and one plays for 43 seconds and stops and the other places for 1 minutes and 40 seconds and stops

I bought the song "You" by Chris Young and the song "Yesterday" by the Beatles and they played fine for a period of time. However one day about 4 months ago, when I would play either song, the song would play normal for an amount of time ( "You" for 1 minute and 42 seconds and "Yesterday" for 29 seconds) and then the song would stop playing on my iPod touch 3rd gen. When I played the songs on iTunes, it would just go to the next song. I contacted Apple support through email, and they responded promptly with a reponse and a solution! The lady helping me accessed my account and made it so that the song "redownload" I guess because thats what happened when I signed on to iTunes and the two songs were loading. Well I think I heard the songs once or twice and now they are doing it again! The songs stops at those same times and will not play. What is the solution?

- Try a reset. it cures many ill and nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
- Does it play in iTunes on the computer?
- Delete the song and redownload it by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
- Ask iTunes for a redownload.
How to report an issue with Your iTunes Store purchase

TS1362 downloaded two albums songs only play for 45 seconds and moves to the next one. happened to two albums downloaded on the same day need help

downloaded two albums on the same day will play only 45 seconds of a song and goes to the next song on both albums need help

If your country's iTunes Store allows you to redownload purchased tracks, I'd delete your current copies of the dodgy tracks and try redownloading fresh copies. For instructions, see the following document:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Otherwise, I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the items that are not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the items, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" links next to the items.

My iTunes rented movie plays for 24 seconds and then Windows 7 says it needs to close down the program. Help.

The movie is downloaded, I know where it is, I can start in different chapters, but it only works for 24 seconds before it shuts down and I have to close the program. I have uninstalled iTunes, Quick Time and downloaded and installed after restarting my computer. How can I watch the movie? In the past, it has worked, but this is the second time I try and I just lose my rental. Please help.

Ok. So I created a new account and iTunes did work. I went back into my original account and tried again and just to be more clear, after I open iTunes it asks me to accept or decline the agreement, I do that, then it says "updating library", and then one all the bars are full it closes and says "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close."
okay, let's start working through the user-account-specific causes of this message.
one possibility is damaged itunes preference files in the user account in which you're getting the crash. (there's a different set of those in each different user account, which is how we can get crashes limited to a single user account.)
if that is what is going on, we can often get past this by rebuilding the preference files in the account that is crashing. for the preference files rebuild technique, see my reply to kusma in this post:
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Downloaded Music Plays for 14 seconds then stops

I just downloaded a song that I wanted and went I went to play it, it says the song is 2:58 and has the bar that shows 2:58 but after it hits 14 seconds it stops and the play count goes one higher.
I never had this happen nor have I heard of this happening to any one. Suggestions? Thanks in advance....

Then it may be just a bad file.
I suggest you send an email to the iTMS, using the form at the bottom of this page.
M

Embedded Flash video in Firefox plays for 3 seconds and stops

I looked at the forums for a solution but it didn't solve my problem. I'm running OS 10.5.6, Firefox 3.6.13, and Flash 10.1.102.64. I recently had my MacMini's memory upgraded to 2GB and when I got it back home, the problem arose.
Per this forum, I tried uninstalling Flash, restarting, reinstalling Flash, repairing disk permissions, restarting again, and trying to play the video. Same problem with any site like LiveLeak, FunnyorDie, or Break.com. YouTube and Vimeo don't seem to have the same problem. I tried going into Firefox's "Tools" menu, disabling the Shockwave Flash plugin, reenabling it, and reloading the video. No luck.
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I had drop out also. I could successfuly resolve my problem with the hints at this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108065-en
I disabled the option "interference robustness" everywhere I could found.
And additionally, I reconfigured the express station as a client instead as a remote WDS, because I stream from an iMac to an extreme station an finaly to an express station where my hifi components are connected to. No drop outs anymore for me.
Hoping this will help you, too.
regards and much luck

I have an iTunes account. My iTunes on my computer shows about 100 songs. However, when I click on about 1/3 of the songs, they will play for about 15 seconds and quit. Anyone know what is going on?

I have an iTunes account along with an older iPod and a new iPhone. My iTunes account shows about 50 songs on it. When I try to play about half of the songs, they play for 15 seconds and then it quits and goes on to the next song. Anybody have any ideas?

Hey everyone in Apple world!
I figured out how to fix the flashing yellow screen problem that I've been having on my MBP! Yessssss!!!
I found this super handy website with the golden answer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
I followed the instructions on this page and here's what I did:
Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
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(Note that I arrived at this solution when I first saw this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570?viewlocale=en_US)
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Can't import songs and ones in library only play for 45 seconds

I'm in the process of moving my music collection to a new computer with a bigger hard drive. I installed the latest version of iTunes on the new computer, copied all the folders and contents of the itunes folder to the new computer in the same location.
I bought a couple new songs successfully but now I can't add any of the files from my previous computer to the new library. I was able to import a few songs that iI purchased when on my original machine but now they only play for 45 seconds and jump to the next song in the playlist (if check) And now when I drag and drop songs on the Library to import them absolutely nothing happens.
And yes, the new computer is authorized and the permissions on the folders are read / write.
Any one have an idea of how to fix this? If not, I just going to burn all my songs to CD and import them that way and say so long to iTunes... just too much BS to just move a music library!

Sounds like the PC's authroization file is messed up, or else the iTUnes preferences files.
Follow the directions in this article, the SC Info file holds the PC authroization for iTMS songs.
iTunes Does Not Open After Upgrading
And also deleted these 2 preferecnes files:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref
They will all get rebuilt when you open iTunes the next time. It should ask for authorization one last time, is all.
Message was edited by: Katrina S.

Please help me... music or play video, it pauses music/video for few seconds (2-7sec). kindly help what i need to do... will appreciate much...thank u my MBP specs: 13 inch early 2011 2.3 ghz intel

please help me... im having troubles using itunes, When i start listening music or play video, it pauses music/video for few seconds (2-7sec).
kindly help what i need to do... will appreciate much...thank u
my MBP specs:
13 inch early 2011
2.3 ghz intel core i5
4 gb 1333 mhz ddr3
mac os x lion 10.7.5 (11g63)
itunes 10.7 (21)

1. A 13" screen is awfully small to do any efficient editing. The 15" gives you significantly more on-screen real estate.
2. All of the MacBook Pros can run FCE. However the graphics processor in the 13" model will limit some functionality with effects. See Tom's earlier comment.
3. Not much difference. All these cpu's are fast. There will be more overall system performance gain from the quad core at the slower speed.
4. FCE cannot use more than 4GB RAM anyway, so the 4GB that comes with every MBP is more than adequate. If you expect to use Aperture or CS5 then go for more RAM, otherwise there's not much reason to add RAM. You will be better off spending your money upgrading to the 7200rpm hard drive.
5. Everything will be smaller on the high res screen; there are just more pixels (1680x1050) on the same 15.4" screen area. (I have a 15" MBP with the standard 1440x900 screen and it is beautiful.)

When I open Iphoto, I see all my photos for a second and then they disappear and only a white dotted box appears. Then I click on it and for photos is a triangle with an exclamation point. It doesn't happen to all but quite a lot. how to I get them back

When I open Iphoto, I see all my photos for a second and then they disappear and only a white dotted box appears. Then I click on it and for photos is a triangle with an exclamation point. It doesn't happen to all but quite a lot. how to I get them back

Have you recently deleted photos using the finder or run clean up software? Is so restore your backup
If not the backup your iPhoto Library and launch iPhoto while depressing the option and command keys. Rebuild your database
LN

Ever since the last update, My iTunes continues to quit unexpectedly. It will open for one second and then close. Anyone have a solution for this. Please help.

Ever since the last update, My iTunes continues to quit unexpectedly. It will open for one second and then close. Anyone have a solution for this. Please help.
I've tried my best to troubleshoot. . . opening in safe mode nothing seems to work.
In the problem report, this is the error that stood out:
Crashed Thread: 8 Dispatch queue: com.apple.iad.iadidmanager
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000090

Hi there navicin79,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the articles below helpful. The first thing I would try is reinstalling iTunes as outlined in the first article.
Troubleshooting iTunes installation on Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2311
OS X Mavericks: If an app freezes or quits unexpectedly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13975
-Griff W.

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