There's some weird bug going through my audio files

[ThatiMacGuy]

I have the base model 21.5 inch iMac from late 2013 (I'm planning to get a new one in a couple months).

So this only started happening a couple months ago. I'd play a song on the music app on my iPhone X, and once the song reaches the end and the timeline thing gets to 0:00, the song would go back to a certain point and just keep playing until it ends again, upon which point the song finally actually changes. During this weird moment the song stays at 0:00 on my phone.

Now I'm noticing that if I play these audio files through the spacebar preview function on my computer, the same thing happens (as you can see in this video that I just uploaded):

Sometimes with these files, in iTunes I can change the song's stop time to the part right before this bug would happen and then convert it into an AAC file, and then that solves the problem. With this audio file in particular, when I try to convert it to AAC on iTunes, it says that an "unknown error occurred" and it doesn't let me convert. But none of these audio files were like this in the first place, it seems that my computer is corrupting them or something.

Sometimes I can convert these seemingly corrupted files to AAC, and the AAC version shows the actual length, including the part where the song kinda repeats. So essentially it shows the track length as longer.

Sorry for this somewhat confusing explanation. I'm so confused myself. What could be causing this? A lot of the tracks that it's happening to are ones that I ripped off of a legitimate CD a long time ago, and they were fine up until a couple months ago.

 

[mikzn]

I'm not sure I understand the exact issue, but I have had old files ripped from CD's long ago (is Soundjam OS9 days) and over time some files seem to get corrupted in the iTunes data base and will not play all the way to the end - some times half way or close the end of playing and then stop or skip to the next song.

I have found that this is not the actual sound file but seems to be a problem with the iTunes library data. If this is the problem you can try playing the file in the finder (without itunes) and see if it works - if it does work and play properly then you can delete the song "record" in itunes and add the song file back to the iTunes library

Again not sure this is the same issue

 

[Fishrrman]

The "corrupted" files... can you play them with OTHER apps?

Try this (easy and will hurt nothing)
Download the free, small (but OLD) app called "QTAmateur":
https://www.mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/

It's old (from 2006!) but it still works fine under Mojave.
Then see if it can open and play the files in question.

I've been using QTAmateur to play mp3's this morning.
I prefer it over other, more complicated apps!