Only imports parts of songs

I just bought Death Magnetic and am trying to import it into iTunes 8 (recently downloaded). Whenever I try, however, only part of certain songs are actually imported. In addition, changing the type of file to import them as (ex. AAC or MP3) affects how the songs are displayed in my library.
For example, importing the album in AAC format lists all the songs in my library, but only 4 of the tracks play for no more than a minute or so each while the rest have a time of 789:57:13. Importing the album in MP3 format only displays the 4 tracks that were partially imported.
Is this copy-protection on the CD itself or a problem with iTunes 8, and how can either be fixed?

Well, you're lucky. At least your machine sees the CD. Mine just spits it back out at me.

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I've tried uploading two cd's today and it begins to import all songs fine.
Then when approx. half the songs are imported, iTunes only imports a few seconds of each remaining song. I can end up with anything from1 second of a song to 2 minutes of a song that should be 4 minutes long.
I've run diagnostics and it passed all the tests, so I don't know what to do now?
ps I have the latest version of iTunes.

It is a bug. Some folks have found that putting the import settings on WAV corrects the problem. After you verify the WAV files are complete, you can convert to your preferred format.
If that does not help and you are tired of fussing with it, rip your CDs in another program, e.g. Windows Media Player, and add the resulting MP3s to your iTunes library.

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When i load cds onto itunes it only loads parts of the songs, and for some it says 'not available'.
For example dani california, which is 4:42 long, only comes up as 1:19, and snow, the song after is 'not available'.
The cd's work in my cd player 100% fine, and all the tracks are there, just not complete.....
Any fixes?

It seems that I have the same problem.
While am working on the Mac, I often listen music on iTunes 8.0.2 (iMac G4 OS X 10.4.11) with Shuffle On, Repeat Off, I notice some pieces doesn't play completely and change before the end.
Opening the music file with Sound Studio, I saw that a part is missing (Waveform is flat). Sometime only few second at the end, but sometime only few second left at the beginning !
What could have gone wrong ? How to fix this ?
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(I looked on my BackUp Disk to restore the full missing number. Unfortunately, it seems that SuperDuper "Sand Box" has already BackUp and replace the right full numbers with the defect one !)

Only imports seconds a song...how to fix PLEASE!

This has happened before, but I don't remember how I fixed it...believe it or not!
anyway, i have a CD(bought from a store, not burned)that will not import or play properly on itunes. I hit the play button and it just keeps going from song to song without playing any of them. It also imports them that way. If I look in my library at the particular song it will show that it recorded 789:57:13. I don't get it and can't figure out how to change this to import the entire song.
by the way, every song, no matter the original length, comes up with this same time.
thanks!

I honestly thank you for your input, and ideas.. however I have some problems with some of your comments (see below). No hurry, I found a program that will rebuild scratched CD's (as best as they can be rebuilt), so I use the good copy to import into Itunes, eliminating the need to use I-tune's broken error correction option.
interesting. primarily we should be looking for
componentry issues that could affect both drives
then.
Why is it, when several people have the same or similar issues, support people look for problems with all their computers, and not look into the product itself?
since you've got a home built PC, you go directly to
the manufacturers of the various components to get
the latest updates. (although it also makes sense to
head to Windows Update to check to see if there are
any hardware updates lurking there ... that's
actually where i pick up most of the updates to
belladonna's third-party componentry.)
All of my components have been updated/upgraded with the exception of the LITEON drive, which, by the way is not normally used to import CD's into I-tunes, but the Sony (which is the newest firmware) is, and this problem happens on BOTH drives.
so head to the website of your Motherboard's
manufacturer to check to see if there are any updates
available for you BIOS or chipset drivers for your
make and model.
Done...
also head to NVidia's website to see if there are any
video driver updates available for your NVIDIA
GeForce 6200.
What on earth would cause you to think that my VIDEO card would cause one itsy bitsy optional function of the APPLE import (CD error correction)product to malfunction? Would the video firmware on an Apple computer cause such a problem?? Maybe I'll not buy one if that's the case.. That's kinda like saying "my tooth hurts, I'd better check the air in my tires on the car"
BUT.. I did it anyway.
the following document may be of some assistance:
Updating the drivers on your Windows PC
I am intimately familiar with updating/upgrading/PC's, Drivers, Firmware, building PC's, and supporting other PC's for 30 plus years.
if still no joy with importing with error correction
on, we'd better doublecheck on firmware for the
drives too.
both drives have had the firmware updated, and nope... NO JOY...
Lite-On does have a firmware available for
download for your LITE-ON LTR-16102B ...
unfortunately, there's no indication i can find of
whether that's a newer firmware revision than the one
you've already got. so it might be worth checking in
with Lite-On to see if it's a newer version or not.
i can't find any links at Sony for your SONY DVD RW
DW-Q30A (although i could find ones for your
old Sony model). but it might still be worth
contacting Sony support to see if there's a newer
firmware than the Rev YYC1 that you currently have.
I'm beginning to think that someone doesn't want to even look at the I-tunes product, to possibly see if maybe, JUST MAYBE there may be a problem with it?? OR... even perhaps the documentation (documentation?, documentation?, WHAT documentation???) might not be correct or perhaps incomplete?
Still NO JOY when trying to use the error correction when importing a badly damaged CD.
Thanks Again
OH, and to the other fella that said that "using error correction on a good CD may fail"... holy moley... please explain how the program would FAIL if it finds NO errors... in technical terms, please.

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