Music Store Bough SOngs skip half way through

This is definately strange. Its happened to all my songs ever since the last iTunes V. 6 came out and no update has fixed it. Any1 know a possible solution to fix it?

ok heres whats up. i realized after the newest update that about half my songs went back to normal, but the ones i bought between the 2nd to last V.6 update to 7.0 still dont play all the way through on my iPod. Any1 else have the problem within this time frame? I know alot of my friends in RL do.

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Other people have been having similar problems with songs over a number of days.
Depending upon what country that you are in (music can't be re-downloaded in all countries) then try deleting those tracks from your iTunes library and redownload them via the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes : re-downloading.
If you aren't in a country where you can re-download music or if they re-download in the same state then try the 'report a problem' link from your purchase history : log into your account on your computer's iTunes via Store > View My Account and you should then see a Purchase History section with a 'see all' link to the right of it ; click on that and you should see a list of your purchases ; find those songs and use the 'Report a Problem' link.

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I have an Ipod Touch 32gb 4th gen.
On music playback, there are certain tracks that will not start at the beginning of the track and start half way through or even towards the end of the track.
This does not occur on playback on my 32gb classic, an 8gb nano, on laptop or on Apple TV.
The local apple store have replaced the Touch with another and the same happens on the same songs.
Having had the classic for nearly 4 years with no faults, I thought I'd step into 2010 and get with it a little, only to find that music playback is problematic.
All software is up to date, I have been through restores etc. with the local Apple Store.
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I'm assuming this behavior probably has something to do with the new AirPlay in iOS and its ability to stream media to another iOS device and pick up where it left off. However, I find this extremely annoying for music, since songs start halfway through when in the middle of a playlist.
I have found no solution to this issue, and it is one Apple needs to resolve, especially when we have "Remember Playback Position" UNchecked for all of our music.
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I have an 80 GB iPod. I bought it new and originally formatted it for Windows and connected it to iTunes in Windows. I later bought a Mac, reformatted the iPod for Mac and had iTunes copy all my song files to it again. Most of my music collection are MP3 files that I personally ripped from CDs, using a few different programs and encoders.
The problem I am going to describe has occurred on the iPod under both formats, and over multiple iTunes updates.
There are some songs on my iPod that it will not play to the end. What happens is that about half way through the song, the song stops, and the screen indicates the song is paused with two (2) seconds remaining. It ALWAYS says two seconds remaining, regardless of how much time was actually left in the song. I can use the next song button to get to the next song, although it takes a few seconds longer than normal for the iPod to start playing again.
There are only a handful of songs I've identified so far that this happens with. For any song that this happens with, it ALWAYS happens; in other words, it's not that the song sometimes plays through and sometimes doesn't; if it happens at all, it always happens.
The particular songs that I've identified so far play fine in iTunes on the Mac. Back when I used Windows, I noted that the problem songs from the iPod would play fine in Windows iTunes or in other Windows media players.
So far, I have only thought of two solutions to this problem. The first was to uncheck the song and sync the iPod so as to remove the song from the iPod, then recheck it and sync again, so as to recopy the song to the iPod. This did not help. I even tried unchecking, syncing, checking some other songs and syncing, then rechecking the problem song and syncing again, so as to ensure that the song file got copied to a different physical area on the iPod's hard drive, but to no avail; the song still would not finish.
My second solution was to re-rip the song from the CD, replace the file in the iTunes library, and resync the song to the iPod. This worked. So of course it seems that I should just do this, but it's inconvenient for several reasons. One is that I have a lot of my CDs stored away, or no longer have access to many CDs I've ripped from because they belonged to friends or family members. Also, this is really just brute-forcing the problem; it isn't really fixing anything.
Has anyone ever had a similar problem, and if so, did you come up with any other fixes or do you have any other suggestions?

Yes, in theory re-converting would lessen the quality further. However, I have heard people claim (unsubstantiated) that if you are encoding with the same encoder at the same bit rate, then since it will use the same algorthymn, it won't really change the file. I have absolutely no idea if that is true or not.
But... I figure some slight loss in quality re-encoding is still better quality than a song that only plays half way and then stops, right? I suppose you could always tag those files in the comment section with something like "Re-Encoded" and then later if you gain access to your old CDs, you can then make a Smart Playlist to gather those songs and then re-rip them again from your CDs.
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Patrick

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I have a 6th generation Ipod Nano 16gb. I've had it for a couple of months or so and it has been fine. However, the last couple of weeks I've started to notice it skipping tracks before they have finished playing. Sometimes it'll only play for about 10 seconds, other times go about half way and then skip. This seems to gradually be getting worse and probably happens about 1 song in 10 now.
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I hate to think but I m assuming when it got stuck opening that day it probably got to 2:34 and then when i forced quit it erased everything after
but the wave patterns are still there???
i have tried unlocking all the rtacks then relocking...but to no avail
grrrr...frustrating
(ironically the song itself is called "frustration"..maybe this is some divine sign)
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Hello Duffy_hibs,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Have you tried a simple reset of the iPod to see if that does any good? There may be some sort of hangup somewhere with the iPod's software. To do this, toggle the hold switch on and off, then press and hold the Select (Center) and Menu buttons together for a couple of seconds until the Apple logo appears.
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Songs start half way through

i've posted this before but nobody answered. When i skip forward a song then return to it at a later date, it starts from where i skipped from. can i stop this happening, it ruins listening to the album and shuffling. the only way i can see to get around this is to rewind then forward so to leave the track at the begining. please could someone tell me if i can or can't sort this. thanks

Select the song(s), do Get Info and look under Options. Do you have a checkmark next to "Remember Playback Position"?
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TS1362 On one purchased album some songs stop half way through.

Are these files corrupted? If so can I re-download working files?

Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past purchases, delete the current copies from your iTunes library and then download again using the Purchased link in the right-hand column of the iTunes Store home page.
If the problem persists, or that facility is not available in your region contact the iTunes Store support staff through the report a problem links in your account history.
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Music Store Bough SOngs skip half way through

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