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Troubleshooting iTunes 4 (#8): Strange track stopping issue
[From Tuesday, May 27th]
MacFixIt reader Simone Manganelli describes an issue that we have noticed in-house, and has been corroborated by other readers, but as of yet bears no explanation:
"I've noticed an issue that continues with iTunes 4, that started with iTunes 3. What happens is that when you're playing any song, the playback sometimes stops randomly. However, iTunes has the appearance that playback is continuing: the playback button is still a pause or stop button, the remaining/elapsed time still tick, and the scrubber still ticks ahead. This can happen on any song, and does not matter whether iTunes is in collapsed or non-collapsed mode. The solution is simply to click the stop/pause button and then click the play button -- the sound then resumes playing.
"It doesn't seem to be the MP3 files themselves that are corrupted, since the problem happens on any song, and it never happens in the same place (i.e.: not reproducible)."
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This started happening to me just this weekend.
iTunes 4, 10.2.6, PBG4.
Glenn
iTunes 3. Occurrences are very rare and as said in the article hitting
pause and play again brings the sound back.
Me too. DP 1.25. 1GB RAM 10.2.6. It's random.
I used to make myself get up from where ever I was to hit the space bar twice (to pause and unpause), but now I just wait out the 5 or so seconds.
Good to know it's not just me experiencing this. I've been having this problem for a long time. :)
hitting play again makes it work again. It's been doing this for me
on and off for quite some time now. Doesn't seem to be related to
the specific MP3 files. My machine is a 733mhz Digital Audio G4
with 1 gig of ram running 10.2.6 and iTunes 4.0. The problem
started with iTunes 3.0.
and the speakers repeat the last second or so forever.
Trying to force-quit iTunes via Terminal.app causes the entire system to
freeze, necessitating a hard reboot.
This bug has been occurring since I received my Mac about six weeks
ago, even on a freshly installed system with nothing but Apple software
on it.
I had this exact problem with a pismo. It turned out to be a logic board problem. Applecare ended up replacing the board and the problem has never reoccurred.
months. Yes it started it iTunes 3 for me, and kept going into iTunes
4. About three weeks ago I stumbled on a small fix: delete the library
and XML file, then restart iTunes. After you get it set up again, if it
happens again, then retry that particular song again. If that song hangs
then the MP3 file is corrupted. After going through this for a week, I've
gotten my iTunes to run without hangs for two weeks.
me (I'm back in iTunes 3 because I sort songs by album, but want to be
able to select them by typing the name - no, not search). I don't think I
had it in the short time I had iTunes 4.
If I stop, and wait the however-many seconds, and start, of course it
works. Waiting takes just as long, though, so I just wait.
because it seems to only happen when I'm loading up the CPU with
something processor intensive. Maybe the "problem" is more than that?
- by Nerdude February 2, 2005 1:35 AM PST
- I recently 'upgraded' from my mom's 400mhz imac to a 450mhz g4 tower. I
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(12 Comments)took only my home folder and the OS. That Created a permission problem
right quick and I fixed it with chmod in terminal. That worked wonders, but
the only problem I have is that damn pausing. I'm going to try to diasble my
Altivec unit and see if that helps.