Songs stop half way???

Question

Ive purchased a couple of albums and have downloaded them all. However, when I play some of them they only play for between 20 to 60 seconds and then skip to the next songs. I have no authorised devices on my apple id so thats no the issue. Please help.

Answer 1

My own experience with this is that if I find a song truncated like that in my iPod, after I resync to iTunes I go find the song (usually by looking in the recently played list). What should be a, for example, 3:00 song will be there as, e.g. 2:37. However when I double click it to play it, the time will then update back to the correct 3-minute time. I usually then reset the playcount to force an update of the tune back to the iPod (or if you don't want to lose playcount, simply let the whole song play so the play count is increased by one). After that I have found the song plays fine on the iPod.
A glitch of some sort.
By the way, I don't know if you use your ratings or not, but if you don't or you have a rating you never use, do what I do and use the rating for tagging songs with issues. For example, if a song plays truncated on my iPod and I am far away from my computer, I can not fix it then and may not recall what song it was later. So I back up to the song again and while playing press the center button on the iPod a couple times to get to the star ratings screen and give it stars (5 stars is easy since you just circle the wheel with your thumb to max out the stars). Now later when I get back to the computer and resync, I can go to the recently played list and instantly spot the 5-star files that I tagged as truncated. I can now double click them to reset their times then I reset the stars to zero. Next sync, because you changed the star ratings, these songs get updated in the iPod and hopefully should play fine now.
Patrick