ITunes is only playing the first little bit of each song.. then goes to the next??

Question

I dragged all the songs from a folder in the "Music" catergory of my macbook. I've clicked the first song in the playlist, and now it will only play the first 20-30 seconds of the song, before moving onto the next song. Is there a setting in iTunes that I need to change? I would like to be able to listen to a whole song!

Answer 1

Hmmm. I don't think iTunes is the culprit really. I don't know of an actual feature that would only play the first part of your songs. Are you sure your music files are complete? It sounds like your listening to "preview" songs in the iTunes store. Did you download these songs your self?

Sorry about answering your question with more questions but I think you need to inspect the actual sound files outside of iTunes. Open the files with Quicktime and try to play a known song there. If they play out fully in Quicktime then, yes, I would agree it's iTunes.

Go ahead and re-install iTunes (you won't loose any songs by the way) and see if that helps.

Answer 2

Check your settings, you may have it set to sample