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iTunes stops playing a song in the middle and s...

Occasionally, with some regular mp3 files iTunes (up to version 12.1) plays the song until a while, and then in the middle of the song iTunes stops and jumps to the next track.

This is strictly an iTunes player issue: the files are not damaged and can be played by other media players without any problem. This is also not an issue with iTunes settings: neither the start, nor the stop times are set and/or checked for these files.

Erasing the file from the iTunes library (completely removing it from the database, not just from the playlist) and reimporting it does NOT solve the issue.

I have made a screencast video to demonstrate the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sx3_FpZr-Q

This is an issue with the core functionality of iTunes, namely playing music! Apple, it is time to get your act together and DO something about it.

The same problem still persists in iTunes 12.3.044.

Meanwhile in the last couple of releases the search functionality also starts to break down. While previously it was possible to narrow search results with terms that span through multiple fields (i.e. one for the Album field and another for the Comments field), now this sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, but mostly doesn't.

What is the point of a music player that can't reliably find and play music? Are there any more important core functionalities than these? Please, Apple, fix these fundamental problems.

Gyepi, speaking as someone who has experienced both of the problems you describe, I'd urge you to use the Provide iTunes Feedback feature under iTunes in the main menu. I'm hopeful that if enough of us do this, Apple will recognize that these problems exist and are affecting more than just a few isolated users.

Cheers

Yes, I also have had this problem for months, if not years. Driving me crazy. No issues playing the same tracks from iPhone or other player apps on desktop.

Hi guys,

I've tested something out that seems to be working:

1) Download a good id3 tag editor e.g. Kid3

2) Find an song where you have the issue

3) Copy this file to a new mp3 (e.g. new.mp3)

4) Load new.mp3 in the id3 tag editor, you should see that there are both id3 v1 and id3 v2 tags

5) Remove id3 v1 tag and save

6) Remove the old mp3 from your iTunes library

7) Add new.mp3 to your iTunes library

I tested this with a few problem songs and it resolved the issues.

Given how many different times I've thought that I fixed this, I am still cautiously optimistic.

Interested to hear if anyone has any better luck.

Thanks,

Alex

Note: you might also have to convert the id3 v2 tag to id3 v2.4 (e.g. if it is id3 v2.3).

Just as a further note: I do the following in Kid3:

Delete the id3 v1 tag

Convert id3 v2.4 tags to id3 v2.3

Convert id3 v2.3 tags to id3 v2.4 (note: this forces the id3 tag to be rewritten by Kid3)

I think the problem is some id3 tags cause iTunes to incorrectly determine gapless playback information (maybe if the mp3s are encoded on windows/linux... hard to say). The fix I am suggesting first forces the id3 tag for the mp3 to be rewritten, and then the only way to force an update to the gapless playback information is to delete the song from the library and add it again.

Like I say, I'm still cautiously optimistic (considering sometimes deleting and readding worked before) but so far this is seeming like a consistent fix.

Ideally Apple would fix how the gapless playback is calculated and would then let us force iTunes to recalculate it.

Never mind -- I've had problems with some files even after removing all the id3 tags.

Thanks, gyepi. Your YouTube screencast saved my sanity! I was about to use a hammer on my Mac.

Problem persists in iTunes 12.4.3.1

Funny, try selecting a problematic song in iTunes, then Show in Finder (from the File menu or right-click on song), then in the Finder play the song using Quick Look. Mine all play fine there. Apple should fix iTunes.

Also, you can quickly find the point where iTunes skips in these files without playing them and watching for the moment. Just select the song, and from the File menu: Convert/Create AAC Version. It will write a new file and add it to iTunes. You'll see the end of the new AAC version is the spot where iTunes skips to the next song in the MP3 version.

btw, those Convert ID3 Tags options in that same File/Convert menu will not fix this (see comments here by Abuckiew).

I wish Apple would stop focusing on album art and get the basics right!

They don't watch these forums much. So, in addition to logging in here and clicking the "I have this question too" button, add your Apple Feedback request (it's in the iTunes app menu). In my experience, I'm not convinced Apple pays attention to that either, but it's easy and might make you feel better;)

I think it takes a LOT of feedback requests to get any attention from Apple, so it's important that everyone do it. So far that would make 5 for this forum topic (but that's better than none)

Noticed that iTunes is skipping always at 1:45 ± 1 second. There are a lot of old threads about this, but no answers. Some guesses, mostly involving iTunes Match—but I don't use it, so… It's a clue, but Apple would have to read their forum…

My Workaround (because waiting for Apple is likely to be disappointing):

• On the theory that iTunes gets offended at something in the ID3 tags or some sort of marker the iTunes Store uses to limit playback of samples (untested; i thought it was 30 seconds for store samples, but a consistent 1:45 skip makes sense only if the Match system was downloading files without stripping some sort of marker that only iTunes cares about), converting the files to a different format should fix that.
• So far, it has, for all my songs that skip at 1:45 and (so far) the ones that skip at seemingly random points. I'm still playing them (and cleaning them up; see below).
• I had already put all the messed up tracks into a "skips" playlist, and I used a free converter called MediaHuman Audio Converter (a great little app:) to convert from MP3 to AAC at 256 kbps. It allows dragging/dropping multiple tracks right out of iTunes playlists and batch processing them. Otherwise, I'd have had to track the song files down one at a time! It also adds the new file to iTunes. It also has settings to delete the source file, which I totally screwed up and ended up with the new files in the Trash.
• So, test it out on one first or you'll have a mess! Also, some of my ID3 tag fields did not get copied, so I'm going through them all to redo ratings, bpm, and grouping data:(  Maybe try a different conversion app? (although, I used this to my advantage to tell the old ones from the new ones so I could mark the old ones for deletion when I'm all done…)
• Not an elegant fix, but if I had thought it through better and done some testing it would only have taken an hour or less to do several hundred files. If it doesn't work on them all, I will post another comment here.
• Best of luck to anyone who tries this. With my luck, Apple will fix the problem right after I finish re-tagging all my files!

I have the same problem. Absolutely unacceptable. Itunes and listening to music is one of the main reasons why I have an iPhone in the first place.

I have found a fix and it was as obscure as it was easy. I got myself a basic ID3 tag editor. In my case I used 'Tag Editor' from the appstore, which was free. Now I dragged all the affected mp3s into the editor, I then changed NOTHING but only saved the files and added them back into Itunes. This actually made it work.

I suspect that there is some sort of problem with certain ID3 tags that makes this problem occur, I was not able to see what the actual problem was but I'm guessing it must be under the surface. It is nothing obvious but saving it through the ID3 tag editor fixed it for me it seems.

Also I got quite lucky because I only started having that problem recently, so the amount of Mp3s I had to fix was not that big.

Nico, thanks for sharing this fix! It may help others with this problem.

Cheers

最後更新：2017-09-12 18:06:43

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