Songs skip when playing...

I have windows xp and a new HP laptop. I downloaded the latest itunes and imported songs from a itunes library and some cds. When I play from the library, the songs skip or "hiccup" occasionally which is very annoying! Any suggestions?

Same thing is happening to me. I work at home and listen to iTunes all day. My computer and iTunes have replaced my stereo and I have enjoyed great music using iTunes for the past two years until I upgraded to iTunes 7. I recently upgraded to 7.0.2.16 thinking it was a patch to fix the problem, have done all the suggested Quick Time settings changes and I'm still experiencing the skipping. It's not quite as bad as it was at first, however it's still there, skipping at the beginning at about every third song played. In fact while writing this, the jazz song currently playing started by skipping for a few seconds. Quite annoying! Apple - how can you fix??????

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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.

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I have been purchasing albums and singles lately, and some of them play for around 40s and then skip to the next song? Is there any way of fixing this?

Nope. I recreated the library, resynched my iPod. The songs still skip. I'm beginning to think it has to do with the fact that I synch my iPod to a specific playlist and not my music library. I may try restoring my iPod and individually copying the songs from the library to my shuffle. Either that, or just get rid of the songs off my iPod that skip..since all they do is aggravate me!
Thanks for trying.

TS1717 i loaded music from a flashdrive from my old computer with a windows xp os onto my itunes library. Now all the songs in my library skip when played or downloaded from store

I decied to load some songs from my old computer which had windows xp. I used a flash drive and loaded them onto my new computer with windows 7. Ever since all songs from my itunes library skip when played, even the ones purchased or imported. Help how can I fix this? Would it help to deauthorize my computer and then authorize it again? I tried diagnosing the compatibility and changed it to windows xp service pack 2, but it did'nt ffix it.

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MY IPOD SKIPS WHEN PLAYING SONGS AND THE SOUND GOES IN AND OUT. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Is the Battery level is low?
The harddisk might be dying, run the disk diagnostic, the procedure is
http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/diagnosticmode/index.shtml
if it is too technical for you, but it does gives you the condition of your harddisk.
What's happening is that some songs are on bad cluster, which need to be moved or reallocate to good cluster.
To fix it in Windows simply run
chkdsk drive: /R /F
where drive: is the iPod drive ID. D: or E:
in Mac run Diskutilty -> FirstAid -> repair.
Good luck!

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My HP Pavillion constantly skips when playing audio
Any suggestions?

Hi,
you may need to update the audio drivers and Intel Rapid storage driver(if applicable) from hp.com.
Please visit www.hp.com/in and select suport & drivers>drivers & softwares> type the the complete model of your PC such as dv6-6100 dv6-3100 etc... select your computer model (if listed), or select the CTO(such as dv6-6100 CTO) model(which works for whole series) now select the OS you are running. you have the list of drivers for your PC.
hope it helps, Good Luck !!!
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My songs skip when i have other programs running and am navigating through them, how do I fix this?

My songs skip when I have multiple windows running and am navigating through them, it is quite irratating!

First try deleting the songs and redownloading them
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Next
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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Whenever I use itunes I can play all of my songs, however when I use my ipod nano 5th generation I am unable to play certain songs. When I try to play these songs my ipod either skips over the song or crashes. Both my ipod and itunes are up to date. I have tried doing a restore. I have tried taking off all the songs and reloading them (this just causes a different set of songs to become unplayable). I have also checked all my music files for corruption with software from CNET(they are all fine).
The most common response I've seen to problems similar to mine is this...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26488
Nothing on that page works.
Please help, Thanks.

It's hard to say what cause of error is in particular, without a bit of troubleshooting. Where were these problem tracks downloaded from?
Have you tried all of the troubleshooting here?
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Again, I"m not really all of this troubleshooting is worth it since as you stated the problem is only apparent on the older iPod Video, which would point to an issue with that device. You could try and do a disk diagnostic on it to see if there is anything in particular that stands out there. See this post from another forum member turingtest2 describing how to perform this test and what the numbers mean.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3784647?start=0&tstart=0
Apple doesn't have a trade in policy, but they do have a recyling program where you can bring your old iPod into be recycled for a 10% discoun towards the purchase of a new one.
B-rock

My itunes player on my desktop skips when playing songs. I have re-installed but the problem continues. I have Windows7 64 bit.

My itunes player on my desktop (Windows7 64 bit) skips while playing songs. I have re-installed but the problem continues. Any suggestions?

I'm expreriencing the same conditions with the same environment. Windows 8, iTunes-64 11.1.2.32, iTunes Store with a processing bar up to 80 +/- and the POPUP MESSAGE OF "iTunes stopped working. The error ...."
I UNINSTALLED, iTUNES WITH NO POSITIVE RESULT. I CHECKED THE FIREWALL AND IS THE SAME DEFINITION AS THE PREVIOUS ITUNES VERSION.
My iTunes StoreS from my iPhones ARE OK.
I'm spending a lot of time of research for WINDOW'S iTUNE with no solutions....

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Hi there, when I create songs in Garageband and then "send to iTunes" and burn the disc, many of the songs skip randomly. I've tried playing back the disc in multiple stereos and computers, and it's the same thing. The discs are not scratched. What could be the problem?

Two things to try:
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I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I have found that sometimes when I continue use of the computer for other things while burning a disc it may mess up. If I leave everything be and just dedicate computer use to the burning of the disc until it is done it will turn out just fine. But that was on my old Flat Panel iMac. I don't think it could do too many things at once.

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hey everybody. i'm editing a music video in final cut express 4.0. i'm very new to this, so please forgive me for using incorrect terminology, or in most cases, no terminology. here we go...
i'm having this problem where the song i imported into fce keeps, for lack of a better word, skipping. the song is an mp3 file. the song plays all the way through, and it doesn't stop when it skips. but every so often, there will be this glitch, where you can hear the music screw up. when played in itunes or on a cd, this song plays fine, so it's not the mp3. what gives?
i thought it might be related to the audio from my video tracks. at first, i was just bringing the audio levels from the video all the way down. but then i decided to try erasing it to see if that would help. it didn't.
thank you so much for reading and taking the time to share your valuable knowledge! take care, everyone.

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when playing audio books on a 20gig iPod I get occasional skipping _ no actual noise but silent spots which break up the speaking _ this will usually happen once or twice per book & usually toward the end of one of the original CDs _ but with a new copy of the Harry Potter "Goblet of Fire" audio CD the skipping is happening on nearly every CD _ tried redoing the CD's & the skipping is happening in different sections _ any suggestions as to what causes the skipping ? _ any suggestions as to how to prevent it ?

It could be a couple of things. Are you running the very latest version of software for your iPod and the latest version of iTunes? You can update these at Apples home page. Also, it may not be a CD/iPod communication issue. It is a problem most likely with the format between the CD and iTunes. You can check this by playing it from iTunes through your home PC. If it still skips there then it has to do with the Book to iTunes. Are you disconnecting your iPod after you eject it in the PC's software? If you disconnect prior it may mess up files,
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I'm about to go nuts! All of sudden my CD player skips and stutters when playing through ITUNES AND MEDIA PLAYER. I can SOMETIMES import songs, but then the entire system freezes up and crashes. I then have to shutdown and start the whole thing over again. I have UPDATED all of my drivers, reinstalled ITUNES, etc. Can somebody please shed some light as to what might be happening?

Amen! I have worked hard to resolve this issue. I tried EVERYTHING...until I tried the ONE THING that worked. I reinstalled XP. That's all it took. It all works better than ever.

Songs glitches when played

I'm playing music from my iTunes library, and all of a sudden, the song glitches...
Example: song plays... and starts to sound like a damaged cd.... It's awesome when I'm working on odd meter timing with my drums... but, irritating..
Any suggestions?

Congratulations on fixing your problem. I wish I could say the same.
I pinned my hopes on a new MicroSD card that was specifically supposed to work well with smartphones: A SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC 32GB. The packaging proudly announces: "Works with Windows Phone".
Still keeps doing the same glitching trick.
In fact it's decided to throw a few more problems in just for fun. Most songs appear twice in the track list. When I started to test it, it played a couple of tracks then stopped. When I switched on the phone to see what was happening, it started again. At the end of the next track it stopped again, and I couldn't turn the phone on again until I'd removed the battery. Now there are 3 copies of most songs. Having played a dozen tracks or so with occasional glitches it just stopped dead in the middle of a song.
I won't bore you with the rest but I've just reset the phone using the Volume Down and Power buttons. Instead of fixing a problem, I appear to have created a flakey, unstable monster.
Can't wait to see what happens next.

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