Song starts halfway through?

If i listen to half a song then skip to the next, when i return to the skipped tune it starts from where i left off. This happens to every song i've skipped on my ipod. This is really annoying if i put shuffle on and none of the songs starts at the begining. I think this only started recently (I may be wrong). Can I stop this 'cos it's really bugging me.

Is it just one song or many? I have many songs that I pulled off of my iPod and put into iTunes, and about half of the ones I pulled ended up like that. It is very annoying.

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Music starts halfway through a song

Just wondered am I doing something wrong.... When I'm listening to my music some tracks start halfway through the song and not at the beginning. Any help would be appreciated

Have you tried updating it and doing a restore with the latest iPod updater (2006-03-23)? You can go here and install the latest updater on your PC and then hook the iPod up and run the updater http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
Doing a restore will wipe everything off the iPod, but once connected to iTUnes, it will load everything back up. More on restoring can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983

Bought a new album; Songs skip halfway through, how do i prevent this?

I recently spent 16 dollars on a new album ive been anticapating listening to. I get ready to hear it for the first time and all is going well until the first songs skips to the next song about halfway through play. I listen to the next song and it skips aswell. every song on the album stops playing about halfway through and skips to the next song, which basically results in me having no music. I tried moving the cursor (what ever you call it) to the later bits of the song/s but it will automatically skip and wont let me play it from their. What can i do to fix this?
P.s this occurs on my ipod AND Itunes.

Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past purchases, delete the current copies from your iTunes library, go to the iTunes Store home page, click the Purchased link from the Quick Links section in the right-hand column, then select Music and Not on this computer. You should find download links for your tracks there.
If the problem persists, or that facility is not yet available in your region, contact the iTunes Store support staff through the report a problem links in your account history, or via Contact Support.
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My ipod songs get halfway through song and then move onto next song automat

Hello,
I'm rather frustrated. Got ipod as gift at weekend and have downloaded a couple of songs from ITunes.
They play fine on my laptop, but when I play them on my ipod, the song gets halfway through and will then automatically skip onto next song... sometimes it only gets 16 sec's into song and then moves straight on...
Have restored back to factory settings and then put the songs back onto my ipod and they're still playing up... can anyone help me???

Hi Ab,
See this post for potential fixes:
Troubleshooting songs that skip on iPod
Good luck,
Maz

IPod classic, songs skipping halfway through or at beginning.

Certain songs will be skipped, halfway through their playback on the iPod, no matter which device I hook it up to, or the song will show up, then be skipped. They play back fine in iTunes, so what can I do to fix this? iPod support won't help because I'm out of my warranty, and they want me to spend $29.99 just to get an answer.

I'll add that the particular songs that skip (at least 50) played just fine before.

Ipod always starts halfway through the next song.

Any time I advance to a new song on my ipod it picks up somewhere in the middle of the song. What am I doing wrong?
Is this normal because if it is it's driving me nuts.

This problem occurs when you transfer tags and not the actual song file to the iPod. Make sure that iTunes is pointing to the folder where the music is kept. Go to Edit>Preferences>Advance to check & select the proper location. If you click on a song and see "!" next to the song then the song has been deleted or moved from it's original location and iTunes can't find it. Keep the songs in one location with iTunes pointing to that folder.

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.

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HELP: Songs stop halfway through since iPhone 6 switch

I noticed the other day after upgrading to the iPhone 6 some of my songs would play for 45sec-1min and then would stop, and jump to the next song. I read that this could be an issue after transferring to a new phone, so I wiped all music off my phone and reloaded it.Unfortunately the issue still persisted.
I then went to test in iTunes on my MBP and found I was having the same issue with the same songs. It's not happening on all songs, in fact it appears to be random. Some I've bought from iTunes store, some I've ripped from CDs, and they're both affected the same. Then even more confusing I went back to my iPhone 5s and iPad to test, and all the songs play correctly. So now it's just my iPhone 6 and my MBP that have the issue.
I'm running the most current version of OS X and iOS. This issue is most frustrating, and I'm hoping someone could shed some light on a possible solution, thanks in advance!

I have had the same problem with several songs purchased from iTunes over the past year. Usually I report them as a problem file at the store, but I have never gotten a reply. Tonight, I noticed one of my latest purchases doing that. If I move the position bar to later in the song, it immediately skips to the next song. I was afraid that maybe my files were getting corrupted, so I copied the file right out of iTunes and pasted it on my desktop. Then I double clicked on the desktop file and it played all the way through in iTunes.
Just for giggles, I copied and pasted the newly created file over the old one, and it still skips to the next song just as before.
I have seen one solution that I believe will work, which is to recreate the library. But I have years worth of playlists, playcounts, ratings, etc. that I don't want to lose. Please help!

HT1349 Songs stop halfway through and switch to the next song

In iTunes some of my songs stop a little more then halfway and then switch to the next song how can I stop this from doing that ?

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".
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This only happens with one song on my new ipod nano.
So I go to listen to this song. Let's say the song is Tourniquet. So, I get 2:47 through the song. It freezes up then, stays there for a couple of seconds, and skips to the next song. Always in the same place. Then I'll go to go back to the song, and it'll go to the song before Tourniquet.
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Yesterday I began to play the song "So What" by Pink and 2:07 into the song, it ends & begins to play from the beginning. I have installed the update and no change. I went to the Apple Support page however could not seem to locate anything new I could try to fix this. I'm not sure if any other songs are affected since I have 750+ songs in the library. Is there a way to correct this issue? Has anyone else experienced this problem? TIA.

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My 'Prematur Ejection' issue was solved by buying an external DVD burner but I have a new problem. I have created a lovely 30 minute movie of a dinner party for a customer that has to be delivered tomorrow.
I am very pleased with the results with one exception.
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I hope somebody out there can help me, many thanks in advance.

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Downloaded tv show starts halfway through!

I paid for and downloaded a tv show but the forst 20 minutes doesn't seem to have downloaded and there is no option to re-download. I have tried it on my ipd and on my pc with the same result. Please help!

Here's how to get in touch with iTunes support : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/download/
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the song 'save yourself' by liel i bought but i found that halfway through it started again and the song finished at the halfway point. i bought it again to see if it was my computer but the same thing happened.
how can i get the song?

Hi,
Try finding it on iTunes on your computer. If that doesn't work, try resetting your iPod: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430.
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IPod gets read/write error halfway through transfering songs

Ok, I posted the other day about a read write error on my iPod. I got it replaced. New one didn't work on my home computer but I did get it up and running on my laptop at work. When I got home I plugged the iPod into my home computer. Everthing was fine (I have it on manually update). When I tried to put music files on my iPod (drag and drop) I did one and it worked fine. Then I highlighted a group and dragged it over. They were transfering. Then halfway through I got the read write error.
Can anyone explain why this would happen? Why did it work for a little bit and then refuse to keep transfering songs? Do I have to do them one at a time when I manually update? I basically had to restore the iPod when I got to work this morning. Things are fine now. It would be a pain (but still bearable) if I can't use my iPod at home.

Can anyone explain why this would happen? Why did it work for a little bit and then refuse to keep transfering songs?
The problem could be one of mnay mentioned in the link below. A complete Reformat of the IPOD using Windows would be a great start and then "restore" the IPODs software. The drive on the IPOD seems to get corrupted at some point and this is the best way I have found to get rid of the problem.
"Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod or "Firmware update failure" error when updating or restoring i
Pod:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301267

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