I recently upgraded to iTunes 10 because I was dying to try Ping. Let me rephrase that, I upgraded to iTunes 10 because I hate it but have an iPod, and I do love the Store.
Anyway after upgrading, I found that some mp3s couldn’t be played anymore. Not in iTunes, nor on my iPod. Googling around only led me to two discussions on the Apple forum. But it seems quite some other people are having this problem: the biggest part of your collection will play fine, but some files do absolutely nothing.
So here is a way to fix it: download mp3Validator and let is scan your broken files. In my case, it found several errors in the files, but it could fix them.
After that, no need to reimport the files, iTunes 10 just played them nicely again.
I can’t find any reaction from Apple, which seems logical, but I find it strange that I can’t find any of this in any reviews. Anyway, my guess is that the files were already mucked up (some of my files were ripped years ago), but something changed in iTunes causing it to not play these mp3 files anymore.
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hi - can you help? Upon your suggestion to make itunes work again, I went to
http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html
clicked "Download MP3 Validator (64 KB)"
Dialog box opens saying to save or open
hit that
folder opens: there are 2 text files, 1 html file and 2 applications
mp3val
mp3val-frontend
click mp3val and it says This file might depend on other compressed files in this folder - recommended you extract all files
so I hit Extract All
Then it looks exactly the same, except now mp3val-frontend now has a magnifying glass icon
So I hit icon and it opens a blank window that looks like lined notebook paper
Go to Actions/repair all files and it says Nothing To Scan
Can you pls help w/next step?
thanks!
I just downloaded this software, installed it and then imported the files I was having difficulty playing on iTunes. After that, I had them scanned and the software reported that almost all of them had a problem so I opted to repair them. The software said "FIXED" on all these files.
I tried playing these files and noticed an interesting scenario. What the software did was fix a snippet of these MP3 files (any where from a 30 sec to 1 min). So now, I have samples of my music that can play on iTunes and the remaining files have a BAK extension labeled on them.
Any suggestions?
I'm sorry it isn't working for some of you. All I can say is that it worked for me. I had some files with the bak extension, but could safely remove those, because my files were fixed completely.
I'd suggest contacting the author of the app.
Hey Susan-
Don't know if you figured it out, but you need to add your iTunes library folder to the application for review. You do this by going to: File - Add folder (s) - then find your iTunes folder and add it. After this you go to: Actions - Repair all files.
For the record, it scanned all of my files super quickly, but didn't help my iTunes problem at all. >:(
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