Itunes is eating my songs! Help?

Hi guys!

Firstly, I'm sorry if this is a repeat - tried to search and none of the topics seem to be my problem. If there is one, though, just point me to it and I'll be happy as a clam!

When I play certain songs, when it hits a certain point, the counter will jump to 0.00 and the next song will start. It's like the data from then on has just disappeared. For example, once it hits 0:44 the counter will jump to 0:01 and the next song will start, cutting off the current song. Some of my songs only play 1 or 2 seconds into the song now.

So ... then I'll re-download the songs that are damaged, re-sync my ipod, and more songs will be like this! Totally different ones! And from what I can tell it's totally random as to which ones are affected.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you so much for any advice you can give!!

Joanna

 

Ah, thank you so much for responding!! I really appreciate the help.

It happens on my iPod too.

Yes, It just updated the other day. This has been happening for months though, and it's still happening.

OK, I will do just that, thanks! Worth a try!

I haven't, no, because I didn't want to risk losing my songs. Do you think I should? How would I make sure I don't lose my music?

(Sorry for being such a noob!) :confused

 

OK, I will do all of that! Thank you very much! I'll let you know how it goes.

 

I did try burning a CD, just to see what happens. Basically it played only a couple of seconds of audio (just like when playing on iTunes) and then the counter continued for the remainder of the song with no sound coming out. I'm assuming that means the files are corrupted.... I think I'm going to do an uninstall/reinstall ...

 

I did initially plan to contact Apple, but they want $29 to help me. Stupid Apple, it's their program screwing things up. I just lost my job and I really can't afford to pay that if I don't have to! I was hoping if it was a fairly common problem that someone would have a way to fix it.

Yup, that was me posting in the apple thread. No, I didn't try that suggestion because I didn't understand what he was talking about ... It was like Greek to me :-o If the reinstall doesn't work I'll try that, too.

I'll check out that thread on the artwork, too. Hmmmm. That would be easy, if it was the artwork. And I already uninstalled itunes; going to reinstall it today and see what happens, I guess.

Thank you for all your help and doing that research for me!

 

Wow, I followed those links you gave me. There are a lot of people having similar problems with iTunes. How annoying that that don't do anything about it!