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iTunes plays 30 sec. then skips to next song
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
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The restaurant I work at uses an iMac with iTunes for their music system. However, iTunes is extremely messed up. The most annoying thing is it will play about 30-45 seconds of a song then skip to the next. It constantly does this and it is always after the same amount of time regardless of the song. Another weird thing is the display time of the current song runs backwards. So, when you play a song that is 4:30 long, instead of the counter displaying 0:00 and increasing, it displays 4:30 and counts backwards for the short time it actually plays the song. The diamond shaped time marker does not move. Plus, if you play a CD with iTunes, everything works perfectly, this only happens with songs in the library.
A few things about the setup. It's an iMac DV 400Mhz G3 w/ 320MB RAM running OS X 10.3 and I believe iTunes 4.7, but I'm not 100% sure on the iTunes version (definitely post-4.5 & pre-4.9). The music folder is on an external 30GB firewire drive dedicated to music and is nearly full (approx. 26GB). The only other app running on it is FileMaker Pro. I should note that the desktop is set to change the desktop background every minute.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Not sure about the 30 seconds think, but regarding it counting down time, it's just showing remaining time. Click on where that is shown a couple of times and it should change to time elapsed (played time)!
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Mac Elite
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Thanks for the tip. I thought that was something simiple like that but not for sure. Any help for the main problem?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Goodyear, AZ
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I have seen this problem on both iTunes, my iPod and my Nokia 6230i. I'm unsure whether it's a problem with individual files or what. I haven't noticed a pattern, as in it's only .m4a or .aac or whatever... And it's not a persistent problem. It just happens every now and then.
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Slide to Unlock
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
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You are using pirated music, no?
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Originally Posted by timmerk
You are using pirated music, no?
Me? No, the music came from employees who brought in CDs and ripped them onto the firewire drive. Of course, whether or not they pirated the music themselves is another question. 
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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Uhm... that's the point. If you don't know for sure it's pirated, then there will be problems with corrupt files.
Duh.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Yeah, bad encodes will sometimes end playing prematurely. Tell the employees to rerip them — if they can. (The same files may play OK in other players, but I don't think that's a flaw in iTunes. Different players are tripped up by different files, I've found.)
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Chuck
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Thanks everyone for the help. We'll try reripping some of the songs and see if that works.
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