Technical question re: iTunes and track lengths

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So, I downloaded "Me and Giuliani..." by !!!, and when I launched it on iTunes, it showed up as like 15:32, even though the song is only 9:00 long. The song plays fine; it just stops when it looks (on the bar at the top) like it's only a little more than halfway through. I thought maybe this was a quirk with the mp3 I downloaded, but then I uploaded Stereolab's "Jenny Ondioline" from a CD, and it "read" the time as 28:18 instead of 18:05 or whatever. Same deal. As of right now, it's more irritating than anything else, but I'm really curious how this happens and if I can fix it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

somehow i tunes judges tracklengths according to bitrate - i have a copy of guiliani which says 40 minutes at 36kbps but in reality its a quarter of that length at 4x the bitrate - i dunno how to fix it.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone kjnow how to update the sound library in itunes without actually deleting it and uploading everything you've got - including the new files you've downloaded - again?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I had the same problem with my iTunes library. When I first started using iTunes I would sometimes get double track listings for some MP3s when I updated my library. Eventually the problem just seemed to go away, and hasn't happened now for a few months. I would just dump everything and build your library again, although I sort my MP3s both alphabetically by "Artist" and chronologically by "Date Added", so rebuilding my library is kind of inconvenient for me now-a-days.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Monday, 16 February 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

My copy did the same. I converted it from mp3 to AAC and that fixed it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 March 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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