iTunes won't play my P2P music

[PRTFW]

Hey guys nice site you have here, just registered. I looked around on the forums but have not found a suitable solution to my problem.

In relation to my problem though I have found that iTunes (8.1.0.52) will not play some of my downloaded music .mp3 files. To download my music I am using a program called uTorrent 1.8.2 (build 14485). I have downloaded a great deal of things from torrents and this is the first problem I have had. With my last two discographies there have been a few songs from each album that simply will not even go into iTunes. I drag and drop them but they will not go into the library. I have also tried right clicking them and hitting play with iTunes. It still will not work.

I then tried to play the songs using Windows Media Player (v11.0.5721.5260) and I had the exact same problem. The files would not play or could not be added to the library. Then I looked on these fourms and found something about a program called Foobar. I downloaded and installed Foobar2000 v0.9.6.3 and all of the music that would not play in iTunes or Windows Media Player plays fine in this program. This would be fine if I did not have an iPod but I would like to place these songs on my iPod, so iTunes needs to have these songs.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help at all would be great because right now I'm stumped. Thanks in advance.

[PRTFW]

Hey just an update, I think I may have solved the problem, in a way.

As I said above the songs worked fine in Foobar2000 v0.9.6.3 but I needed them to be in iTunes. I noticed that I could export the songs from Foobar2000 as a .wav or .mp3 file. I then did this with my files coming out as .wav files. Then once I had this I used Acoustica MP3 to Wave Converter 2005 to convert the files to .mp3 files. Then I had songs at 320kbps (which is what I wanted. I like good quality music, like anyone) that worked in iTunes. The only thing I had to do was fix the tags. Looks like I got this problem handled but if anyone knows any other better methods for fixing this problem that would be great. Thanks again!

[roipatrick]

That's a great info you have there. Just remember that some files or sound file doesn't run in WM player unless you convert is in a file that WM can read.

[shab]

I managed to find the solution. These files have both ID3v1 and ID3v2.x tags. Removing the ID3v1 tag (but leaving the 2.x ones) fixes the problem - the song plays correctly. To do this, get Mp3tag v2.40, and load the defective mp3s, then right click on 'em and hit 'remove tag'. The entry should change from "ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3)" to just "ID3v2.3 (ID3v2.3)". Tada, the songs now play in iTunes.

I imagine you can re-add the ID3v1 tags in a manner that will not cause iTunes to choke, if you have an older mp3 player of some sort that cannot read the v2.x tags - I have plenty of songs that play fine that have ID3v1 and ID3v2.x simultaneously. But, whatever. This works.

This fixed my problem of Mp3's not playing in my I-tunes....they did play ok in WMP.....
Also, the solution was not my own.....I copied and pasted it here from a different site from someone else who figured it out. I am just paying it forward to this site to help others out.

[roipatrick]

I managed to find the solution. These files have both ID3v1 and ID3v2.x tags. Removing the ID3v1 tag (but leaving the 2.x ones) fixes the problem - the song plays correctly. To do this, get Mp3tag v2.40, and load the defective mp3s, then right click on 'em and hit 'remove tag'. The entry should change from "ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3)" to just "ID3v2.3 (ID3v2.3)". Tada, the songs now play in iTunes.

I imagine you can re-add the ID3v1 tags in a manner that will not cause iTunes to choke, if you have an older mp3 player of some sort that cannot read the v2.x tags - I have plenty of songs that play fine that have ID3v1 and ID3v2.x simultaneously. But, whatever. This works.

It's a good share of experience you have there. Thank you very much for helping others solve their problems regarding this matter.

[shrek666]

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[silly]

When you open the lime wire exe or limewire itself and you wanted to download a song but when you enter the name of the song and click go it will search,yes, but it doesn't show the songs you typed in.

[paulmetzler]

I would think that as long as the files are mp3s, they would play fine in iTunes, regardless of where you got them, no?

[iOLD]

That's not true I can save anytype of file as .mp3 and it would not be playable in iTunes. You have to make sure that the file you are dealing with is a legitimate file. Also it is always a good practice to scan files with an anti-virus program just to make sure that they do not infect your computer.

I have learnt that the hard way so I just wanted to tell those who can be saved by a tip

[sumansameer]

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