Songs ending too early

It seems that since the last update to I Tunes some songs are ending too early (30 to 1:30 too ealry). The get info button does not indicate the songs should end early. When i download the song again, the problem stops.

There could be a number of causes. If the iPod only plays a very short part of the file <10 secs this is usually down to problems with the structure of the file that iTunes can cope with but that causes the iPod to bail out. Re-encoding in iTunes will normally help, ie. re-rip or convert from MP3 to AAC or vice versa. Since all transcoding is lossy you should retain your original file as a backup in the hope that future firmware upgrades will fix this issue. iTunes also has a feature to allow you to exclude parts of a song from being played. Use *Get info* on a song in question and look at the Options tab. There are options here to set a start & stop time and to remember the playback position. Setting any of these will affect what gets played each time the track is selected. Finally, if you're playing songs in random order that are part of continous play albums the exact point at which the track stops may not be quite where you expect it to be.
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When I'm listening to my music, the song is cut off with a minute or two left in playing. This does not happen to every cd loaded, but enough cd's to frustrate me.
Please help!!

It's too late for your kids hockey team, but this will help others. This problem nearly drove me nuts.
First of all, yes go to the settings for your slideshow and turn off "repeat music during slide show" and instead choose "fit slide show to music".
But now when you play your music there's still going to be a lack of coordination probably, because your song probably has some inaudible space at the end as it fades out. iPhoto thinks it's music and coordinates the slides to include it, so you end up with more slides than audible music.
Here's how to do it:
1) Go back to iTunes and select the song you want to use. Just highlight it.
2) Go to File Menu at the top, and under that choose "Get Info".
3) This brings up an interesting window. Choose "Options".
4) Start Time is probably OK unless there is something at the start you want
to remove. Otherwise just leave it unchecked.
5) Stop Time is the time the recording actually stops. If you play the song
and watch the timer at the left of the progress bar, you will see that the
music stops but the timer continues. Note the time that the music
stopped and enter that in the previous window in the Stop Time field.
Since the Stop Time field is very exact, you can keep fine tuning to the
thousandth of a second to get it exactly right, if you need that precision,
and that's simple to do.
6) Now in order to get iPhoto to use that time for your synchronized
slideshow, it isn't enough to use that cropped song in a playlist because
iPhoto still plays the uncropped version that was too long.
7) Burn your cropped song to a CD and then import it back from that CD
and it will be exactly the right length to fit to your slideshow without any
extra slides or ken burns movement at the end.
It's all a lot easier than it sounds, but it uses a CD. If you have a group of songs in a playlist to coordinate, just crop the song that goes last.
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TS1424 Didn't receive the complete song. Ends too early. What can I do?

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Depending upon what country that you are in (music can't be re-downloaded in all countries) have you tried deleting it from your iTunes library and redownloading it 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 it re-downloads in the 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 that song and use the 'Report a Problem' link.

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Another problem.....
When recording programmes I am frequently finding that the recording is starting way too early...5-10 minutes....and often ends too early (very annoying as one misses the end of a particular programme).
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Recording should start 2 minutes before the scheduled start time and end 5 minutes after the scheduled stop time (by default - you can increase this).
The box won't automatically cope with programmes which start late. Are the programmes you're having a problem with starting on time?
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Hello,
Need some help. Seen similar posts to mine with different circumstances so i thought i would just start a new thread.
Iphone 4, updated to latest software, iTunes updated to latest as well. Songs play fine in iTunes. so far, approximately 10 songs end abruptly while playing on iPhone. I do not use Match, i have never used it. All songs bought from either iTunes or directly imported to iTunes Via CD. Funny thing, if i watch where the song ends, i can fast forward just past that spot and the rest of the song plays. Any help out there?
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Windows TCP Socket Buffer Hitting Plateau Too Early

Note: This is a repost of a ServerFault Question edited over the course of a few days, originally here: http://serverfault.com/questions/608060/windows-tcp-window-scaling-hitting-plateau-too-early
Scenario: We have a number of Windows clients regularly uploading large files (FTP/SVN/HTTP PUT/SCP) to Linux servers that are ~100-160ms away. We have 1Gbit/s synchronous bandwidth at the office and the servers are either AWS instances or physically hosted
in US DCs.
The initial report was that uploads to a new server instance were much slower than they could be. This bore out in testing and from multiple locations; clients were seeing stable 2-5Mbit/s to the host from their Windows systems.
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[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 6.55 MBytes 5.48 Mbits/sec
iperf
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[ 4] local 10.169.40.14 port 5001 connected with 1.2.3.4 port 55239
[ 4] 0.0-18.3 sec 196 MBytes 89.6 Mbits/sec
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iperf
-c Windows SYN - Window 64kb, Scale 1 - Linux SYN, ACK: Window 14kb, Scale: 9 (*512)
iperf
-c -w1M Windows SYN - Windows 64kb, Scale 1 - Linux SYN, ACK: Window 14kb, Scale: 9
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Conversely, from a Linux client on the same network a straight, iperf
-c (using the system default 85kb) gives me:
[ 5] local 10.169.40.14 port 5001 connected with 1.2.3.4 port 33263
[ 5] 0.0-10.8 sec 142 MBytes 110 Mbits/sec
Without any forcing, it scales as expected. This can't be something in the intervening hops or our local switches/routers and seems to affect Windows 7 and 8 clients alike. I've read lots of guides on auto-tuning, but these are typically about disabling scaling
altogether to work around bad terrible home networking kit.
Can anyone tell me what's happening here and give me a way of fixing it? (Preferably something I can stick in to the registry via GPO.)
Notes
The AWS Linux instance in question has the following kernel settings applied in sysctl.conf:
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.core.rmem_default = 1048576
net.core.wmem_default = 1048576
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 1048576 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 1048576 16777216
I've used dd
if=/dev/zero | nc redirecting to /dev/null at
the server end to rule out iperfand
remove any other possible bottlenecks, but the results are much the same. Tests with ncftp(Cygwin,
Native Windows, Linux) scale in much the same way as the above iperf tests on their respective platforms.
First fix attempts.
Enabling CTCP - This makes no difference; window scaling is identical. (If I understand this correctly, this setting increases the rate at which the congestion window is enlarged rather than the maximum size it can reach)
Enabling TCP timestamps. - No change here either.
Nagle's algorithm - That makes sense and at least it means I can probably ignore that particular blips in the graph as any indication of the problem.
pcap files: Zip file available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/104qdysmk01lnf6/iperf-pcaps-10s-Win%2BLinux-2014-06-30.zip (Anonymised
with bittwiste, extracts to ~150MB as there's one from each OS client for comparison)
Second fix attempts.
I've enabled ctcp and disabled chimney offloading: TCP Global Parameters
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Chimney Offload State : disabled
NetDMA State : enabled
Direct Cache Acess (DCA) : disabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : normal
Add-On Congestion Control Provider : ctcp
ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : enabled
Initial RTO : 3000
Non Sack Rtt Resiliency : disabled
But sadly, no change in the throughput.
I do have a cause/effect question here, though: The graphs are of the RWIN value set in the server's ACKs to the client. With Windows clients, am I right in thinking that Linux isn't scaling this value beyond that low point because the client's limited CWIN
prevents even that buffer from being filled? Could there be some other reason that Linux is artificially limiting the RWIN?
Note: I've tried turning on ECN for the hell of it; but no change, there.
Third fix attempts.
No change following disabling heuristics and RWIN autotuning. Have updated the Intel network drivers to the latest (12.10.28.0) with software that exposes functioanlity tweaks viadevice manager tabs. The card is an 82579V Chipset on-board NIC - (I'm going to
do some more testing from clients with realtek or other vendors)
Focusing on the NIC for a moment, I've tried the following (Mostly just ruling out unlikely culprits):
Increase receive buffers to 2k from 256 and transmit buffers to 2k from 512 (Both now at maximum) - No change
Disabled all IP/TCP/UDP checksum offloading. - No change.
Disabled Large Send Offload - Nada.
Turned off IPv6, QoS scheduling - Nowt.
Further investigation
Trying to eliminate the Linux server side, I started up a Server 2012R2 instance and repeated the tests using iperf (cygwin
binary) and NTttcp.
With iperf,
I had to explicitly specify -w1m on both sides
before the connection would scale beyond ~5Mbit/s. (Incidentally, I could be checked and the BDP of ~5Mbits at 91ms latency is almost precisely 64kb. Spot the limit...)
The ntttcp binaries showed now such limitation. Using ntttcpr
-m 1,0,1.2.3.5 on the server and ntttcp
-s -m 1,0,1.2.3.5 -t 10 on the client, I can see much better throughput:
Copyright Version 5.28
Network activity progressing...
Thread Time(s) Throughput(KB/s) Avg B / Compl
====== ======= ================ =============
0 9.990 8155.355 65536.000
##### Totals: #####
Bytes(MEG) realtime(s) Avg Frame Size Throughput(MB/s)
================ =========== ============== ================
79.562500 10.001 1442.556 7.955
Throughput(Buffers/s) Cycles/Byte Buffers
===================== =========== =============
127.287 308.256 1273.000
DPCs(count/s) Pkts(num/DPC) Intr(count/s) Pkts(num/intr)
============= ============= =============== ==============
1868.713 0.785 9336.366 0.157
Packets Sent Packets Received Retransmits Errors Avg. CPU %
============ ================ =========== ====== ==========
57833 14664 0 0 9.476
8MB/s puts it up at the levels I was getting with explicitly large windows in iperf.
Oddly, though, 80MB in 1273 buffers = a 64kB buffer again. A further wireshark shows a good, variable RWIN coming back from the server (Scale factor 256) that the client seems to fulfil; so perhaps ntttcp is misreporting the send window.
Further PCAP files have been provided, here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/dtlvy1vi46x75it/iperf%2Bntttcp%2Bftp-pcaps-2014-07-03.zip
Two more iperfs,
both from Windows to the same Linux server as before (1.2.3.4): One with a 128k Socket size and default 64k window (restricts to ~5Mbit/s again) and one with a 1MB send window and default 8kb socket size. (scales higher)
One ntttcp trace
from the same Windows client to a Server 2012R2 EC2 instance (1.2.3.5). here, the throughput scales well. Note: NTttcp does something odd on port 6001 before it opens the test connection. Not sure what's happening there.
One FTP data trace, uploading 20MB of /dev/urandom to
a near identical linux host (1.2.3.6) using Cygwin ncftp.
Again the limit is there. The pattern is much the same using Windows Filezilla.
Changing the iperf buffer
length does make the expected difference to the time sequence graph (much more vertical sections), but the actual throughput is unchanged.
So we have a final question through all of this: Where is this limitation creeping in? If we simply have user-space software not written to take advantage of Long Fat Networks, can anything be done in the OS to improve the situation?

Hi,
Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums.
I will try to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. There might be some time delay. Appreciate your patience.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Kate Li
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Heyas;
So I have been going through my iTunes collection - backing up and getting missing artwork, etc. and I have noticed that several songs end early/get cut-off. This happened to one song a while back that was a download from the iTunes store. I figured the file somehow got corrupted so re-bought the song from the iTunes store. Now that it has happened to several songs I am suspicious that there must be another issue than one corrupt file.
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Hey bgrsox,
Thanks for the question. I understand that random songs are not playing back fully in iTunes. The following resource may assist you:
Songs in iTunes may not play back completely
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4357
Symptoms
Occasionally, if a song purchased from the iTunes Store on a Mac or PC was not downloaded completely, the song may not play back fully. The song may abruptly stop during playback, and iTunes may start playing the next song in your library or playlist.
Resolution
If iTunes in the Cloud is available in your country, try the following steps to resolve the issue:
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2. Click on the Purchased link in the iTunes Store to view your previously purchased music.
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Additional Information:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Delete songs, playlists, or other items
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12159
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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Automatically add the files that are dropped on this applescript to
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In addition, you can add this script as a folder action
Author: Gabriel Zachmann, Feb 2010
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on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
addTheFiles(added_items)
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Hi,
Have the users check on OWA, does the issue persist? Please also make sure the timezone of Exchange is also properly configured.
I'm not an expert about Exchange, I hope this blog can be helpful:
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Regards,
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