Songs play for only 30 seconds

my songs only play for 20-60 seconds (depends on the songs) and then moves to another song. How do I stop this from occurring?

does this happen in iTunes? if so, it sounds like it might be a problem with either the audio file or something in the iTunes/iPhone transfer.
can you try playing the file in another player? depending on the file type, Windows Media Player should work in Windows, but i don't know of other players in Macs, sorry. do you get the same kind of thing? if so, there is definitely something wrong with the audio files.
if it does not happen, check a few songs to see what their start/end times are. to check this, select a file, go to "file -> get info" and go to the options tab. there, you will see the start/end times. be sure the start time is 0 and the end time is the duration of the file.

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