iTunes Audio Dropout

[comrade]

Ocassionaly, and currently more frequent, I will be listening to a song in iTunes when the audio will completley dropout. The song will still be continuing to play, but no audio. It will come back on again in about 5-10 secs or I can pause and play and it will be fine. Why is this happening and what is the problem?

[RBMaraman]

I've been having the same problem recently, and so have several other people I know. My first thought was that my speakers were going bad, but then it happened on my iPod too. I called Apple about 2 weeks ago, and after speaking to several people, I got a manager who said, "We are aware of the issue, and it will be addressed in the form of a software update in a few weeks."

I don't know if he meant an OS update, or an iTunes update, or an iPod OS update. I guess we'll just have to wait and see....

[Pismo]

This problem happens to me everyday! Whenever I'm at my desk, I'm always listening to iTunes while I do my homework and the audio drops out a few times a day.

My remedy is pausing the song and the resume it. I didn't know this problem was on the iPod too. Very strange.

[Xero]

whilst were on the topic of iTunes oddities, ive also had this problem, but i have another strange thing:

It seems that iTunes cant handle the output of sertain sounds, and audio clipping happens if i have the preamp any higher that -6db. this happens with almost EVERY song with piano in it. when piano plays the audio almost always clips. anyone else have this problem? im on a 1ghz 15"PB. some other people should try playing any Piano song [preferably with the piano soloing] and tell me what they experience.

[kettle]

There's a lot of piano on the Amelie Soundtrack, I have noticed a bit on my Sawtooth but more on my girlfriends eMac. The strange thing is it happens when I play the original CD through the eMac too. It must be something to do with the digital amplifiers in these things. :confused:

[Jaykay]

I've had a similar problem with iTunes, the sound starts to crackle and lose its coherence in a strange sort of a way, but as previously mentioned pausing it and playing it agin fixes the problem. All i can say is, bring on iTunes 4.

[Elan0204]

Well it's good to know that other people have been having this problem too. iTunes has only stopped playing on me a couple of times, but I was concerned that a hardware component (like my sound card) was dying. Maybe iTunes 4 will come out on Monday and the problem will be solved.:)

[comrade]

So, has iTunes 4 fixed this problem? I won't be able to try it until Monday.

[RBMaraman]

I don't know about the rest of you, but iTunes 4 and iPod Software 1.3 have fixed my audio dropout problems.

My AAC encoded files sound great, and it's nice being able to listen to them without hearing a 10 second dropout gap. Nice work addressing this issue, Apple!

[Xero]

iTunes 4 has NOT fixed the "Piano Distortion" issue i mentioned earlier in this thread tho. :(