Non-Apple content stops playing at 1-minute, 23-seconds!!!!

For some reason my iPod(s) only seamlessly play through my imported music or Apple purchased files.
For example, I use cd Baby, Amazon, and eMusic, as well as iTunes for downloading music and everything is played through my default player (iTunes); however, when I try to listen to my iPod via headphones or wirelessly, any non-Apple content stops playing at 1:23--everytime.
So, if I were in the shower and listening to my iPod via one of my wireless bluetooth speakers and I forget the source of where it came from (Apple vs. non-Apple) then I could be without music. I cannot figure out why my iPod (I have several iPods and one is brand new) always wants to stop at 1-minute, 23-seconds for any content not purchased from Apple. As you can imagine, this becomes quite a mess when listening to a playlist. As a result, I find myself having to skip to the next song quite a bit now.
Anyone else have this issue or have a suggestion?
Wasn't an issue until iTunes 10 and later.
Thanks.

I am having the sames issues. I was on the phone with Apple over the weekend. I was told they would report it to their engineers. It would seem this problem occurred first in May and June and was resolved from what I have read this morning in past discussions, yet seems to be reoccurring again as of this weekend.

Similar Messages

Non-Apple content stops playing at 1-minute, 23-seconds on iPod(s)

For some reason my iPod(s) only seamlessly play through my imported music or Apple purchased files. For example, I use cd Baby, Amazon, and eMusic, as well as iTunes for downloading music and everything is played through my default player (iTunes); however, when I try to listen to my iPod via headphones or wirelessly, any non-Apple content stops playing at 1:23--everytime. So, if I were in the shower and listening to my iPod via one of my wireless bluetooth speakers and I forget the source of where it came from (Apple vs. non-Apple) then I could be without music. I cannot figure out why my iPod (I have several iPods and one is brand new) always wants to stop at 1-minute, 23-seconds for any content not purchased from Apple.
As you can imagine, this becomes quite a mess when listening to a playlist. As a result, I find myself having to skip to the next song quite a bit now. Anyone else have this issue or have a suggestion?
Wasn't an issue until iTunes 10 and later.
Thanks.

Sounds to me like it needs to go back to Apple again. Frustrating I know.
I suppose you could try a format of the iPod in Windows. A full format does a check and remap of bad sectors on the iPod hard drive, and you would need to restore the iPod as normal (using the iPod updater) afterward.
First, put the iPod into forced disk mode.
See: How to put the iPod into disk mode.
On your PC, go "my computer" and right click on the iPod, then choose "format". Ensure the settings are at "default" and that "quick format" is not checked. Now select "format". It will take a while, but when that's finished, restore the iPod using the updater.
To exit forced disk mode, reset the iPod.

When I download videos (from an external hard drive), they appear to be downloaded (file sizes look correct) but they all stop playing a few minutes in!

When I download videos (from an external hard drive), they appear to be downloaded (file sizes look correct) but they all stop playing a few minutes in!

Try the following in the terminal
ls -alh filename
du -chs filename
And what happens if you play the files directly of the external drive?

Videos stops playing after 5 0r 6 seconds, how do i fix this problem

videos stops playing after 5 0r 6 seconds, how do i fix this problem ?

Howdy z71jimmy,
The following article provides tips that can help resolve most playback issues in iTunes for Windows.
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7 video playback performance issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1718
Cheers,
Allen

Apple TV stops playing iMatch music after several minutes

Model: MD199NF/A
Software: 5.1 (5201)
After updating to software version 5.1, I'm experiencing trouble with my Apple TV and my iMatch music.
After starting the music using iMatch it starts normal and nothing is wrong, but sometimes it stops after a few minutes (5-30 min).
The only thing to get it started again is to restart my Apple TV or else it wil keep trying to load my (iMatch) music and nothing happens at all.
Are there more users having this problem? What is the possible solution to this problem?
Thanks in advance

I have the same problem and haven't found an answer or seen one. I don't have any problems downloading/streaming off the net but the iTunes timeout is driving me crazy. Did you ever find the problem?

How to avoid that my Ipod nano stop playing music each minute

My new i pod nano6th generation always stop playing musicbetween 30 sec and one minute after the launch

Your nano is pausing playback when the screen goes dark. The reason for this is that it is not detecting your headset. You may be able to hear music, but the headset jack is not inserted enough for the nano to detect that it is there (or something is blocking the connection). Here are your three options:
Insert the headset jack harder. Most folks find that this solves their problem. If you can see ANY of the silver of the plug when it is inserted, it is NOT fully inserted. You should feel and hear a "click" when it is fully inserted.
Clean out the crud in the headset port. If you have tried #1 and it just won't insert all the way, it is likely that you have crud in your headset jack. Shine a light in there. The entire inside of the jack is white, so if it looks dark down at the bottom, there is probably crud down there. You can try blowing it out or using canned air. Just understand that shoving anything else in there to clean it out will be taking your warranty into your own hands! However, I have cleaned mine out using whatever was handy and small enough to fit in there and so far so good. Your results may vary!
Take it to the Apple store. If you have really tried with 1 and 2 and it is still happening, then there might just be something up with your headset port or your headset jack. If it is the headset jack, you can look closely at that and be pretty sure if that is the problem. Try another headset to make sure. If you have worked all the way through to this point and it is still happening, it is time to take it to the Apple store.
i

Stop playing after 1 minute

iPod shuffle about 2 months old. Since a view days stops playing after 55 seconds. No indication on the LEDs. If you press Pause/Play green LED blinks for 1 minute. It seems all other functions are there but no audio output. iPod is in room temperature, no moisture. Battery is fully loaded, latest iTunes installed. Just every time stops playing after 55 seconds. After switching OFF / ON you can play exactly were it interrupted for 55 seconds again.
Need help, thanks!
Windows XP

Try re downloading it from the Itunes store at no extra cost
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Ipod stops playing after 7 minutes

I have downloaded a couple of talking books from iTunes onto my ipod nano. It stops playing the book after 7 minutes, no matter which book I select. Any ideas ?

Does this happen when you play these same tracks in iTunes?
B-rock

TS1717 my music videos stop playing after 3 minutes

my music videos stop playing after 3 mins it happens to them all they worked fine before I upgraded to the new software

No there is no particular limit, especially one as short as 4 minutes in the Flash player or a Web page in general.
The video file may have been corrupted before or during upload to server.
Test the original video file on your local machine, does it play the entire length? is so, notice the file size.
Compare that size to the file size of the video on the server... if they are the same, you might want to re-upload anyway.
Your video file will also have a web address that specifies exactly where it is located on your server. Do a direct download and test the file to see if it is courrupt.
It will have an address something like this:
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/chris_test/tombstone/video1.flv
So download your file directly from the server and play on your local machine to see if it's longer than 4 min.
Could it be that your Web host only allows certain size files (no videos over 4 min for example)?
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Apple TV stops playing certain songs that it would play previously

This is getting really frustrating! I have certain songs which I can play then eventually it will stop playing them. I can still see the album artwork song etc. But when the song is selected in shuffle or I manually select them it just sits there and won't play. I have reset twice and after each reset the songs will play again but eventually days later stop playing for some unknown reason! I just got this before Christmas and it was fine until either New Years or the latest version of the software came out. I am getting tired of resetting and starting over! I have 2 apple TV's and I am ready to take them both back because they both do the same thing!

Same happens here after I have upgraded to the latest Apple TV software version 4.1.1. Didn´t have that problem before.
The MP3´s play flawlessly on my iPhone 4 and on the mediathek/iTunes of my Macbook Pro 17.
Further my remote app on the iPhone 4 is now extremely unresponsible with apple tv.
Was much better before the "Upgrade".
I use OSX 10.6.6 all updates are applied everything else smooth and easy.
Seems this was a downgrade instead of an upgrade.
Greetings from Munich
Stefan

Non-Apple Applications stop loading

Laptop has been working fine, yet suddenly Microsoft Office, Kodak Easyshare, etc. will not load and run. All Apple apps are fine and work normally. Double click on menu, or directly in Applications Folder for MS Office apps or others non-Apple, it seems to start, but no window appears, menu does not change, does not show as active in Apple+Tab listing nor in Force Quit dialog box.
Deleted folder for MS Office, reloaded from install CD ... no change. Then found other non-Apple apps not working as well as all office apps. Not a new laptop unit, it is Intel chip, about 14 months old. May have happened with 10.4.10 update from 10.4.9, but I can't be sure. I can reload the backup image, but I would like to know how this happened or what is causing this.

I have been looking on the Apple support site ... just tried MacFixIt.com ... I'm not getting relevent returns. If you know what keywords found this topic, I'm not having any luck!
Thank you in advance if you can give me even one to start on.

Quicktime Plugin/Firefox stops playing mp3 after a few seconds

We've run into a problem with Quicktime Player in Firefox (Win XP) only playing the first few seconds of an mp3. It doesn't happen with all mp3s, but out of the five we've tested four showed this problem... only one of the five played through to the end.
When accessing the mp3 file, quicktime plugin loads with the big Q, takes a few seconds (i.e. seems to be downloading the full file), displays the controller, then starts playing. The progress bar moves quickly to the right and stops when it reaches the far right. For some of the mp3s it's only a second or two, for one it is about 8 seconds. The ones that only play for a second or two are regular music mp3s of about 3-5 minutes in length. The one that plays 8 seconds, is really 17 minutes, 42 seconds long.
All of these seem to play fine with the Quicktime plugin in IE. And all the files play fine in iTunes and Quicktime as local files as well as streaming.
The music files are mp3s generated by iTunes using the "Convert to MP3" function (original files are m4a files from the iTunes store).
The longer file (a podcast) was generated by a third party, so I'm not sure what tools were used to generate it, however I've tested two versions generated by iTunes that also did not play past 8 seconds:
- Original encoding with ID3 tags converted to a different version by iTunes
- New encoding generated by iTunes using the "Convert to MP3" function
(FWIW, renaming the files doesn't make a difference either.)
I have confirmed that this is happening for a colleague of mine on his computer as well.
Reloading the page/mp3 file (F5), force-reload (control-F5), disabling the cache (using Web-Developer Plugin, or Firebug), clearing the cache (through Firefox's Options->Advanced->Network->Offline Storage settings, or through "Clear Recent History") ... none of these seem to make a difference.
However, I did notice that for the files that weren't working, using Firebug's Net panel, it looks like the plugin starts *and finishes* playing the file before the file is completely downloaded (i.e. the player stops playing and the Net panel still shows the file downloading -- usually for a few seconds more before it is completely downloaded).
(And now the one mp3 file that was playing fine is no longer playing. It too just plays a second or two then stops...)
This is with Firefox 3.6.3 and Quicktime Plugin 7.6.6 on Windows XP Pro.
---Lawrence
Message was edited by: lcoffin

Podcast (original): http://council.cio.com/podcast/temp.mp3
Podcast (re-encoded by iTunes): http://council.cio.com/podcast/temp3.mp3
Music MP3s that aren't working for me:
http://council.cio.com/podcast/findyouregone.mp3
http://council.cio.com/podcast/findyourehere.mp3
http://council.cio.com/podcast/youvideoversion.mp3
Music MP3 that is working:
http://council.cio.com/podcast/twoareone.mp3
(Oh, and ignore my comment earlier that this mp3 stopped working. I got confused back there with all the various tests... This file does play fully. The player also waits until the file is fully downloaded before starting to play... As opposed to the others where the player starts and ends playing before they are downloaded completely.)

Apple TV stops playing music after 5 minutes requiring iTunes restart

I am using a 2nd gen Apple TV, Apple Airport Extreme, and a PC. Since the latest Apple TV update, whenever we play music from our iTunes library the music only plays a maximum of 5 minutes then stops. To get it to play again I have to exit iTunes on my PC and start it up again. There are no error messages to indicate what may have happened. I have tried a bunch of different things including restarting everything multiple times, disabling the screen saver on the Apple TV and restarting my router.
I have been using this particular Apple TV since release without issue and and have only experienced this since the last Apple TV update. Help!
Thanks

I have the same problem and haven't found an answer or seen one. I don't have any problems downloading/streaming off the net but the iTunes timeout is driving me crazy. Did you ever find the problem?

Downloaded movie to apple tv stops playing movie after few minutes

After a few minutes of watching a movie through Apple TV and Home sharing, the movie inexplicably stops and goes back to main menu. This only started happening 2 days ago and I've had the Apple Tv for 6 months now with this issue not happening before. Seems to maybe be linked to my comuter going into sleep mode, but again, it never used to do this. And I'm not 100% sure of this fact.

Hi,
I had a more or less similar problem after upgrading to Itunes 11 and the upgrade on the appleTV. Videos just stopped without any message and went back to the main menu of AppleTV.
My Itunes library is hosted on an Imac with a 6Tb firewire 800 connected disk.
What really resolved it was to set the following options in ' System preferences' , ' Energy saver' :
Computer sleep: Never
unselect ' put hard disk to sleep when possible'
select all other options.
After an Itunes restart it worked continuously without any interruption what so ever. (+10 hours or so) .
Hopes this helps you,
Frans van Wessel

Apple Tv stops playing my music(iCloud) and Music direct from my computer after 4-5 minutes regardless of a wireless or ethernet connection--Imac is 3 months old--Apple TV 1 year old?

Tried reesetting Airport extreme and Apple TV--no luck?

OK, no answers!
I've played music via the ATV3 for several hours without dropping the signal, so obviously the 5.2 update cannot handle the bandwidth to play movies.
I see other people here and elsewhere in the forums have the same problem. Bad Apple for not thoroughly testing.
Next question is, can I revert back to 5.1?
Regards
Santa

Non-Apple content stops playing at 1-minute, 23-seconds!!!!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for