Split personality - iTunes playing two songs at once

I wanted to select song A at the end of song Z but what happened was two songs began playing: the one 'next in shuffle' mode and the one I clicked on.
This looks like a problem with the application handling user input during automated functions.
Are these programmers getting paid?
Pete in San Diego
4 Macs
1 OSX Server
2 Windose boxes
1 Linux system
Multiple Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Can itunes play two songs at the same time? Mine can!!

If you let a song run until just before the end and then click to an earlier part in the song on the time bar, itunes starts playing both that tune and the next one.
Does this happen with anyone else?
What a basic error, how did apple not catch this?
Peace and God Bless.
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Actually, I have the same problem...only moreso.
When I'm streaming from another computer, my songs frequently start double-playing without my doing ANYTHING at all. Right now, The Skeleton Killers' "Despair" is doubling up--that's twice the dirge--and I wasn't even touching the computer when it started.
Oh, goodie! One of the streams has finished and the next song, George Michael's "Outside", has begun, now running concurrently with the last minute of "Despair". I can't tell you how poorly these songs go together.
The problem started with 7.0 and continues with 7.0.1
Apple! Help!
--Jay

When listening to music on ATV, it plays two songs from the playlist, then won't play any more. You can see playlist and songs, but won't respond. Any ideas?

When listening to music on ATV, it will play two songs from the playlist, then no more. You can see the playlist on songs, but it won't play. Turned everything off, reset the network...nothing works. Any ideas? It used to play fine...for hours at a time.

Hi. Thanks for your reply.
It is happening via "shuffle" in a playlist. Always two different songs within the playlist. You can see the next song on the screen that should, theoretically, be playing...but nothing happens. Even when you push "play" on the remote, it doesn't receive the command.
I reset, then restored ATV. Now, it doesn't limit itself to two songs, but does stop after a few. The more trial and error I do, the more I believe the problem is with Homesharing in iTunes. If I turn off Homeshare, then turn it back on, a couple more songs will play in the playlist. I have shut down iTunes, restarted computer, completed updates, but nothing seems to change it.
It used to play fine for hours on end, but has now found this glitch.

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Hi, I have the same problem since a few months. Note that this does not only affect airtunes devices. Also my default line-out goes silent. It happens completely random. Sometimes after 1 track sometimes after 20 tracks or anything in between.
Pausing and unpausing the currently (silent) playing track also makes it audible again.
Strangly if a silent track is playing all the next songs in queue play silent. Unless you skip or pause the song...
odd.

I can't play two songs that I bought last year, I can't play two songs that I bought last year

I can't play two songs that I bought last year

And what troubloehsooting steps have you taken? Have you tried re-syncing or re-downloading the content?
Where did you purchase the songs from?

When my iphone4 is under the locked mode, ipod can only play two songs at most, and then the system collapses

When my iphone4 is under the locked mode, ipod can only play two songs at most, and then the system collapses, the screen is black and responds to no commends, not until I restart the machine. but the ipod function can work well under the normal mode, is it any hardware problem? thank Q!!

Do you mean crashes?
Try doing a full reset. otherwise it sounds like you might want to walk it into the nearest Apple Store and get an opinion there.
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Bought an album off iTunes and two songs from the album will not download. Is there anyway to make them force load or anything along those lines?

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Hey ChandlerAdaway!
I have an article here that can provide you some guidance for this issue. First, you will want to check for the songs in your past purchases list for your account, if you haven't already:
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
If the songs cannot be found there, you will want to report an issue with your download by following the directions in this article:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1933
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

Everytime iTunes plays a song, Finder quits

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My finder & Dashboard quits and re-starts every time iTunes plays a new song. The screen goes completely gray & blank under whatever I may have open. It lasts only momentarily, but is quite annoying. As part of the troubleshooting, I ran Disk Utility. Checked permissions which were OK. Checked verify disk & got result that the disk is corrupt & should be repaired. When I tried to start my computer from the Recovery disk (using the Option key), it would not start (going instead to a gray patterened screen). I tried this several times & one time it did go to the screen showing the Recovery disk and my startup disk. But when I selected the Recovery disk, it went to the gray patterned screen again. I then connected my Mac Pro to my MacBook Pro & booted the Mac Pro to Target Disk mode. When I ran Disk Utility Repair Disk on the Mac Pro's startup disk, the result showed no problem with the disk. I'm not sure where to go from here, so I can use some help.

I was able to get to the Recovery Disk & ran the disk utility to try & repair the disk. When I did, it quit & said it couldn't repair the disk. I was about to reformat the HD & reinstall OSX Lion, but decided to try the repair once more before I did that. This time, it was able to repair the disk. I then rebooted & found that the same problem still existed. I went back to Recovery Disk & reinstalled OSX (over the existing copy). When that was complete, I rebooted & find that the problem still exists. One thing that repeated observation of the problem has discovered is that when the screen blanks out, the background that is there when the screen comes back is a different one than was there before the screen was blanked by the change of song in iTunes. I'm going to put up with this for a couple more days, then will reformat & reinstall OSX.
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My iTunes only plays one song at a time. I've tried changing the format (ie repeat playlist, repeat song etc etc) but nothing seems to work. Can anyone help?
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Do the songs have check marks against them? If not iTunes will only play one song at a time.
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Why does iTunes play consecutive songs by the same artist so often?

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I just submitted this bug report to Apple:
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Hi
I'm also having all the same problems mentioned earlier, ever since my update to 8.3.
Having tried deleting "5 star" playlist, recreating and then re-syncing, does nothing!!
As per ToolMan7x6, I can play from "songs" , "albums" or " artists" via shuffle or regular play with no problems, on my iPhone 5S, but as I can't listen to the circa 3500 songs I have on my phone all day in shuffle mode, this is driving me nuts!!
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I have a HP N40L MicroServer (I remote access from my iMac) that I want to use to serve media via iTunes to my Apple TV's. The unit has 4 HDD's. What I wanted to do was have Movies & Music on one drive, TV Shows on another and then allow back up to the spare drives. This means that I need iTunes to read two drives at once. I know that I can choose a Library but I want to select both - is this possible ?
My other option is to use Drivepool to expand the size of the drive by combining the individual HDD's (get arround Windows 2TB drive limitations) however it creates duplicate files for safety. This means my iTunes has duplicate entries.
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You could, for example, turn off the preference to copy files to the media folder, drag your movies to a different drive, then delete the current entries and reimport. Doug's scripts has one called Relocate Selected which can possibly make that easier to do. I've rolled my own for Windows.
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