Itunes Music Skipping

my itunes skips when i listen to radio stations through it. it just started yesterday. help or suggestions?

thanks much.

Thanks for the info! This has made listening to itunes so much more enjoyable while I am web surfing!

Music skipping, especially when it's happening with only certain songs, and skips always at the same location on playback, could also be a sign of a bad AAC file that was being delivered by iTunes Store.

I had one such problem recently with music I had purchased and did not play back correctly (songs would skip at the same spot every time). I contacted Apple, was given a refund, and told they would investigate the files and that I should try downloading the material again in a few weeks.

Thanks for the great info. However, most of these suggested fixes seem to be for Windows. What about Mac? I opened Quicktime in OS and there don't seem to be options to change the synthesizer default or enable safe mode. I'm using OS 10.4 and iTunes v7.

In addition to skipping songs during the burn, I'm also getting the occasional random song truncating. Muy annoying. Love my Mac but am very disappointed in Apple SW lately.

Good call. Saved me from going insane.

I am running iTunes and there is no way my skipping problem is caused by a lack of RAM. I am using it on a laptop with a 1.73 GHz dual-core with 2Gb DDR2 RAM. When I'm running iTunes in the background while playing World of Warcraft, I still have almost 1Gb of RAM free. I hate iTunes when it skips but I love my iPod and iTunes does such a great job of organizing music. I guess I'll deal with the skipping until Apple gets this figured out.

Ive got a dual core AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 and from what I have read on the net and can work out, the music skips due the second core powering up and down. There is a powersave feature built in which activates the second core when the load on the CPU reaches a certain threshold but then powers it off again when the load is reduced again to save power. This might be complete crap but I have done pretty much everything I can think of to fix it: formatted the hdd and clean installed windows, installed another gig of ram to take it from 1gb to 2gb, plugged in a soundblaster audigy 2 nx external soundcard and messed with any and all audio settings and drivers/codecs etc. I turned the powersave off in bios but it is still on. It is the only thing that makes sense, it skips when you scroll a webpage or load something up or if a background service like an antivirus tries to do something. It is a built in fault and ive just come to learn to live with it unfortunately. If im wrong then please let me know! Id love to be able to fix it!

Hi Bob.

Skipping-songs in my case is a problem I've had since I made the mistake of not selecting the option "error correction" at import, and a dozen, possibly more, albums skip because the content skipped as it was imported. It plays skipping no matter what player I use, iPod, Creative MP3 player, Mac or PC. What I'm looking for is a tool to help me identify those songs which skip so that I can re-import just those albums/songs.

The alternative is to listen to all music and flag songs as I hear them skip, which I've been doing when I'm near the computer, but mostly I just hit >>| . I own 12,100 songs which I play randomly, and skips tend to happen when we are sitting down for dinner with company... not the most appropriate time to run to the computer and flag songs.

What would you recommend I do to identify those annoying skipping songs in one fell swoop, so I know which CDs to dig out from storage and re-import them?

I've got a similar Problem. I've got a brand-spanking new computer with a triple core, 4GB RAM, Windows XP with full patch updates and such, fresh itunes install. I've got a fairly massive itunes library, some 7500 songs, mp3's, m4a's, m4p's, even some wav's and midi's in there.

I usually run World of Warcraft, which takes up about 300 - 350 MB RAM or so, and Firefox with maybe four to ten tabs open, which is like 200 - 300 MB RAM.

Now, randomly, iTunes lags, and just stops playing music for about a second and a half or two and then picks up again. This happens under all circumstances, and totally randomly, it happens for all types of songs, whether they are on my harddrive, shared over the network, or on an external USB drive. It happens near the beginning of songs, or in the middle of them. It happens without regard to what other programs are running. I definitely have sufficient RAM and CPU (I've been watching my processor performance meter while typing this and iTunes has lagged about 5 times, but has peeked at 1% CPU and WoW in the background has peaked at 4% and firefox at 3%. iTunes is sitting at about 85 MB.

Again I've got an AMD Phenom 8450 tri-core with 4GB RAM. I've already googled around a bit; all I find is "LOL get a Mac." Could it just be that iTunes isn't properly optimized?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yup!

Hi, I have this same problem. I tried the quicktime control panel safe mode settings etc. then restarted itunes but it didn't work.

I looked to see if there was an update to my sound card driver, i had the latest but i installed it again anyway. After a restart and before i opened itunes again i did the quicktime control panel settings again (turned them off, close, open and reapply). Opened itunes and its perfect!!!

I don't know if it was the reinstalling of the drivers or the control panel settings after restart or both but worth giving ago if your still having problems.