Song Skipping in Playback on Itunes

I am running v7.5 and my songs stutter and skip in playback on itunes. They are perfectly fine on my IPOD. I have read only items on the net about there being an issue with Quicktime but the solutions all refer to a much older version of QT. Anybody having this problem?

Make sure that you don't have the "shuffle" icon on below the iTunes source pane.

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Re: Songs skipping after downloading from iTunes

I am having problems with the songs skipping when I use itunes to play them on my computer. I have deleted them and redownloaded. It does not fix the problem. What do I do next?

Hello, cajunkiwi.
Thank you for the question. There are a couple options to help you with this. If limited purchased media skips only on the iPhone, then delete the affected content and download it again free of charge via the purchased section of the iTunes Store. If almost all of your media library skips on the iPhone only, remove all music from the device by removing the preference to sync music. After this has been completed, restore the sync music preference to place the media back on the the device. Below are a couple articles that will walk you through this process.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
iTunes: Syncing media content to iPhone
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1351
Cheers,
Jason H.

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Songs skipping after downloading on iTunes

Hello, cajunkiwi.
Thank you for the question. There are a couple options to help you with this. If limited purchased media skips only on the iPhone, then delete the affected content and download it again free of charge via the purchased section of the iTunes Store. If almost all of your media library skips on the iPhone only, remove all music from the device by removing the preference to sync music. After this has been completed, restore the sync music preference to place the media back on the the device. Below are a couple articles that will walk you through this process.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
iTunes: Syncing media content to iPhone
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1351
Cheers,
Jason H.

Songs skip when playing on itunes

Is anyone else having problems with their songs skipping on itunes (both saved audio files and audio cds) when they play fine on other players like windows media player. My itunes was working fine until about two weeks ago when the program seemed to create havic on my computer. It killed my internet explorer, then itunes and quicktime wouldn't uninstall on my computer. Finally removed programs using windows cleanup utility program. Have installed/ uninstalled program several times since with no luck. The songs keep skipping and slowing down. Even tried updating drivers. Seems to play fine as long as I'm not running anyother program on the computer, but as soon as I run another program or even minimize/ maximize the itunes media player skipping starts (even though only using like 4% computer power). Even tried installing stand alone quicktime player. Nothing works. The apple techs have to be the worst support on the planet. Sent hrs on the phone with them. Please help or let me know if u are having similar problems. Thanks Tom

I've had problems as well. I get "crackling" when I play songs using iTunes. When it happens, it appears that the program is getting bogged down because the mouse doesn't move smoothly across the screen. I've been trying many ways of troubleshooting it including the "waveout" option and keep coming up empty. I've tested identical tracks on Windows Media Player and found them to play perfectly on WMP. What is also baffling is that I can still burn playlists using iTunes and then play the burned CD on another computer or CD player with no sound problems whatsoever. Someone suggested it could be connected to compatibility with a Windows update like Service Pack 2 for WINXP, but I know for a fact the program was fine when SP2 was installed.
Here's a brief history of my troubleshooting:
Everything with my system was working fine.
Computer was getting bogged down playing Sim City, games on pogo.com, and itunes was crackling.
Left for work one day and iTunes was working. Came home the next day and the program dumped EVERYTHING. It did not carry a single song in the library and all 52 playlists were gone even though all files were still sitting in the iTunes folder as they always were. Each playlist xml file I found and opened with Notepad showed only the playlists that come with the program and nothing I had created. I'm assuming this issue occurred because of a corrupted xml library file or there was a conflict with my old 20GB hard drive that used to house the old OS and program files (that hard drive has since been wiped).
Did major utitility maintenance: 3 Spyware programs, 2 antivirus, Norton Utlities Disc Cleanup/defragged/etc and what little spyware found were cookies.
I considered that there may be files corruption, so I tried playing mp3 tracks from the library using Windows Media Player and had no sound problems at all!! Of course, the majority of my library is in apple's aac fomat.
I also decided to see what would happen if I burned a CD through iTunes. The CD works great!
I also get crackling when I play CDs through the CD Rom with iTunes and do not when I use Windows Media Player.
I also considered that it was a specific format causing the issue: mpeg layer 3 or 4. Songs crackle across the board.
Uninstalled iTunes again. Downloaded and installed iTunes 5 today. Songs still crackle!
I also used regedit and ccleaner to clean up the computer as well. Still no luck.

Songs skipping on playback

Hi
Since I've updated to the latest Itunes update I have found that songs that i've download from Itunes when playing back on laptop, sound bar or burned to CD some of the songs are skipping/stuttering. I 'm sure on the update there was also an update to stop this but it doesn't seemed to have worked. Any suggestions please. Thanks

Possible remedies:
Check that you have the most recent version of iTunes (12.1.1.4 - released Feb. 18). The previous release (12.1.0.71) was widely reported to have significant playback issues, varying from "static" and stuttering to complete lack of output. The 12.1.1.4 release seems to fix most of these issues, in some cases in conjunction with the points below.
Check the setting of Play Audio Using in Edit > Preferences > Playback (you'll have to restart iTunes for changes to take effect). iTunes 12.1 sometimes defaults this to "Windows Audio Session" rather than "Direct Sound" where (for most users) the latter works better. In some cases, the 64-bit version of 12.1.0.71 did not have the Direct Sound option available, particularly with Windows 8.
Check that you have the latest version of QuickTime (7.7.6) installed. Several people have encountered issues if QuickTime is out of date or has not been installed. This issue seems to affect Bluetooth audio devices though may not be exclusive to these.
There's an alternative installer here: iTunes 12.1.1 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards) - some users have reported that installing this has addressed playback issues in the "standard" 64-bit version. The "for older video cards" is a something a misnomer - like most prior "64-bit" releases of iTunes, this is a 32-bit application with a 64-bit installer. The "standard" 64-bit version (12.1 and 12.1.1) is a full 64-bit application, but there appear to be a small number of possible incompatibilities between these and some 64-bit Windows systems.

Songs skip when i use itunes.

It's not all the time, but most of the time.
Usually it will play the first song perfectly,
then on the rest of the songs it skips or something.
I've watched the seconds, and on the part that messes up..
the seconds go faster.
I don't know, but it frustrates me
cause i don't know how to fix it.
Anyone else have this problem before???
or
Does anyone know have to solve this problem???

I tried everything Apple recommended here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93610
to no effect
Going back to iTunes v6.0.2.23 seems to have worked for me. (for now <crossed_fingers>)
I had planned to try v7.4, but it's WinXP or Vista only. I wish they'd say that somewhere obvious so I didn't waste bandwidth on it.

Songs skip halfway through in iTunes and on iPhone

Howdy. I was recently forced to get a new laptop when my hard drive crapped out on me. Fortunately, my music was backed up on an external hard drive. Since I was at my five computer limit, I did have to de-authorize all computers from my account and then authorize the new one to play my purchased songs. However, I now find that some (not all) of the songs I purchased will skip after about 1:50. Specifically, I bought the 700+ song Bob Dylan collection when it was first offered; these songs seem to be the only ones affected.
I know other people have had similar problems. The reason I'm starting a new thread is because the songs sometimes play all the way through, depending where you're trying to play them. Let me explain:
iTunes 10.6: skips to next song after 1:50
iPhone 4S (latest iOS): skips to next song after 1:50
iPod shuffles (2nd and 4th generation): plays through
Since there are a lot of songs affected, I'm wondering if there's a cleaner solution than "delete and re-download ad infinitum". Any help would be appreciated.

mine has just started to do this today, have you had any luck fixing it?

Song skips to end in itunes

I've encountered this problem with 2 songs, both of them purchased from the iTunes music store. The song will play to a certain point ( :41 on one track and :56 on the other ), and then skip to the next song in the playlist. I can manually go past the problem area and play the rest of the song, but never from before that point. Both of these tracks were purchased Dec 30, 2005 or later, and have never sucessfully played all the way through.

i'm having the same problem. all songs i've purchased in the last week from the music store have been the same way. i've noticed them cutting out on itunes as well as my ipod. i can ff through the damaged part, but the songs still don't seem to play through. any solutions?

A solution for the skipping audio playback in iTunes

I had the same horrible skipping problem that a lot of other users have while playing back songs in iTunes. Here's what I did to correct it. You need to get itunes ver 6.0.5. My problem started when I upgraded to ver 7 and every version thereafter. First, backup your iTunes library of purchased songs. Get rid of all traces of iTunes ver 7 installation off your hard drive. Install iTunes ver 6.0.5 - then import your iTunes music (I found I had to also delete the two small library files that were created by the later versions of iTunes to be able to import and create the library for ver 6.0.5). After creating the library, all my purchased iTunes songs then appeared in iTunes. The first time I clicked on a song to play it a pop-up window appeared asking to authorize the song on this machine(my PC). I used the same ID and password that I always had used to purchase the iTunes originally. Then everything was great again. It took me a long time to figure out that an earlier version (pre ver 7) was the fix. By the way, prior to doing all the above, I had just re-installed WinXP on a blank hard drive. Hope this works for you - if it does don't ever click yes when the pop-up shows up in iTunes saying that a newer version is available.

I didn't mean to give me an answer for the security questions i mean that i didn't remember the answers and i don't have a rescue email to send in it , i'm just ask for sloution to reset my security questions got it?

Songs skips in playback

I purchased a Studio One collection of early Bob Marley stuff and one of the tracks skips. My friend went through his library but doesn't have it so he found it as a preview on the itunes store and it skipped there too. Is there any kind of policy for these issues?

A couple of suggestions on this page might help:
Apple - Support - iTunes Store - Download FAQ
If if you've already tried them, though, you can email Apple at the bottom of that page. It's possible that they might give you a refund, or redownload of some type (since it sounds like a problem with the iTunes Store, not your computer).
-Kylene

Why is iTunes skipping through songs during computer playback?

Over the past couple months, after adding new files to iTunes, when I'm listening to them on my computer, it will sometimes arbitrarily skip the next song. Each song skips at a different place, but it's always the same places every time I replay the tracks. When I listen to them in Windows Media Player, they play all the way through. I know it's not an issue of file corruption. What can I do about this?

Hi LD,
Take a look at the article below and try playing the tracks in Safe Mode. If you no longer hear the playback issue, you may be able to resolve the issue by removing outdated 3rd-party plug-ins as suggested below.
iTunes: Troubleshooting issues with third-party iTunes plug-ins
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3430
There are several ways an add-on can cause iTunes to act erratically, such as those listed below:
Loss of iTunes functionality, such as the Visualizer
Distortion or irregularity in the iTunes interface
Slow performance
iTunes won't open or quits unexpectedly
You see this alert while syncing: "... cannot be synced. A duplicate file name was specified."
If you see the above symptoms or other unusual behavior, you can disable any third-party plug-ins by opening iTunes in Safe Mode:
OS X: Hold down Option-Command.
Windows: Hold down Shift-Control while opening iTunes.
You should see this message before iTunes starts up: "iTunes is running in Safe Mode. Visual plug-ins you have installed have been temporarily disabled."Note: This is different than Safe Boot or Safe Mode for Mac OS X. You may need to test both at the same time to isolate all third-party interference.Click Continue and see if any issues persist. If your issues are resolved with iTunes running in Safe Mode, check the following:
Consult the vendor of any plug-ins you installed to see if they're compatible with your version of iTunes and check for any updates that may be available.
Close iTunes and move third-party add-ons to the Desktop to troubleshoot the behavior. iTunes stores these plug-ins and scripts in these locations:
Mac: /Users/username/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/
/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/
Learn more about troubleshooting unexpected quits, freezes, or launch issues:
iTunes 10 for Mac may quit unexpectedly on launch
-Jason

IPod Nano 4G Skips During Playback with Apple Lossless Songs

My iPod Nano 4th Generation has been consistently skipping a brief portion of music about every 5th Apple Lossless song during playback. I've been working unsuccessfully to resolve this issue with tech support and fixed the problem when I disabled the energy level setting in the playback menu. While this is a hit to battery life, the skipping no longer occurs. Hoping that this issue is permanently resolved in an upcoming software update.

Hi,
I brought my ipod yesterday and had the exact same issue. it would skip certain songs frequently and was extremely frustrating. Im not sure if this is the case for all ipods (i have an ipod nano 16Gb 4th gen, with firmware 1.0.4), but i fixed my issue in a series of steps. Im not sure which exact part of my method did the job, but here it is:
1. plugged it into iTunes and clicked "restore" under the tab "summary". WARNING: This will delete everything, and restore factory settings. im not sure if this is necessary, but youll need to delete the songs which skip anyway.
2. pressed the eject button IN ITUNES (under "devices", and next to your ipod icon), ejecting the ipod. wait for the ipod to specify when it is ready for it to be unplugged. proceed to unplug said ipod.
3. Choose the language of your ipod, and go into playback settings and (settings/playback or something) and turn OFF "shake" and "energy saver"
4. Plug your ipod into your computer again and drag all the songs onto your ipod using itunes.
5. after it has finished copying, WAIT until the ipod no longer says "synching", and until it says "connected"
6. Press the eject button IN ITUNES (again, under devices, and next to your ipod icon)
7. Eject when the ipod says it is ok to do so.
As i said, im not sure which part of the method did it for me, but i think it might be the way in which i was ejecting it. Before i was ejecting the ipod on my desktop. I think it is important to eject it using itunes. Anyway this fixed my ipod. Im not sure if it will do the same to yours, but if its making you very angry (to say the least) like it made me, its worth a try i guess. I would appreciate it if people let me know if this works.

Songs skip BADLY on iTunes w/ other programs

Guys, I just got an iPod recently and so have begun using iTunes instead of windows media player out of neccessity. I have one major problem with it: songs skip very badly when using other programs. This ranges from high performance games to simply surfing the internet with firefox. Basically I can only listen to songs when not using the computer for anything else or suffer the consequences. I cant imagine this happens to everyone or no one would use the software...theres so many times I want to listen to music while doing things. Also, my computer is not slow...I have plenty of memory and processing power so that is not the problem. Windows Media Player had always worked fine for me...what is wrong with iTunes?
PLEASE HELP!!!

moraleclipse,
iTunes uses Quicktime, which uses DirectX/DirectSound for playback.
This article suggests some possible causes of conflict in that process, and steps that can be taken to try and resolve it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

Update itune 6, now all songs skip

Hello,
After downloading and installing itunes 6, all my songs skip and sounds like they are scratched (and weren't before).How can i fix this???

hi y'all!
actually, the MacMuse advice in that particular tip is directed towards versions of itunes that use Quicktime 6.5.2 for their audio playback. for the QT 7 version of the waveout quick-fix (for itunes 5.0.x and 6.0), see this document:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93610
love, b

Songs skipping on itunes

I've just purchased an ASUS X553M and they didn't skip at first, and now every song skips.
I've uninstalled iTunes and reinstalled, I've restarted my computer, I've checked I've got the latest updated version.
I've searched for this problem and gone to Task Manager, changed the priority to 'high'.
It happens to songs i've imported from CDs and bought from iTunes store so I really don't know what it could be.
Do i return the laptop or is it an iTunes fault and take the laptop to an Apple store even though it's not a Mac.

There is an alternative version for 64-bit editions of Windows here:
iTunes 12.1 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards)
that seems to address the most of the playback issues that some users have been reporting with the full 64-bit version of 12.1.0.77. The alternative installer here is the same architecture as most previous "64-bit" versions of iTunes, i.e., a 32-bit application with a 64-bit installer. The "for older video cards" label appears to be something of a misnomer as some people have reported that this corrects problems found on current / high-spec systems.
Some users have reported that after installing this alternative version it is necessary to adjust the "Play audio using" selection (normally to "Direct Sound" rather than "Windows Audio Session", though this may vary based on your audio hardware/drivers) in Edit > Preferences > Playback to restore glitch-free audio (one part of the reported symptoms is that the "Direct Sound" choice isn't available, usually in Windows 8).
If this doesn't address the issue, you may want to think about reverting to iTunes 12.0 - see Turingtest2's notes on Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates for steps needed to completely remove all installed iTunes components, and for links to the 12.0 installers.

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