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- Part 1: Possible Reasons that iTunes Not Playing Music<\/a><\/li>\n
- Part 2: How to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music but Progress Bar Moving?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Part 3: Check iTunes Update to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music<\/a><\/li>\n
- Part 4: Repair Music Files to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music<\/a><\/li>\n
- Part 5: Clean Up iTunes Library to Avoid iTunes Crashed and Stuck<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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Part 1: Possible Reasons that iTunes Not Playing Music<\/h2>\n
Before solving this problem, you could refer to the following reasons, or you had better check the reasons for the playing failure on iTunes. <\/p>\n
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- If you cannot play songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store, you may have exceeded the number of computers listening to the purchased music. Once you have authorized five computers, you cannot listen to any purchased songs on the sixth computer unless you deauthorize one of the authorized computers. To deauthorize a computer, choose Advanced> Deauthorize Computer (this computer needs to be connected to the Internet). Then, choose Deauthorize your computer's Music Store account. To get more information about authorization or deauthorization, tap \"More content.\"<\/li>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\n- You may try to play an AAC file that was not made with iTunes, or an AAC file downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. The songs you download from the Music Store, or the songs imported into the music library using the AAC encoder are encoded in the new MPEG-4 AAC format, so they can be played in iTunes and iPod. Other AAC files you find on the Internet or elsewhere will not be playable in iTunes.<\/li>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n- If you are listening to a shared music library or playlist, iTunes will skip any purchased music files in the list that the computer is not authorized to play. To listen to a purchased song in the shared library or playlist, you need to double-click the song. If your computer is not authorized to play each song purchased by the person sharing this song, you will need to enter the Apple or AOL account ID and password in order to enjoy this song.<\/li>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n- If you have tried the above steps and nothing works, there would be some problems with your iTunes. Sometimes, if your iTunes has not been updated for a long times, some bugs would exist which would result in the failure of playing music files. You had better check other functions of iTunes first to check whether it can work properly.<\/li>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n- The computer performance also plays an important role in presenting the best audio playback on iTunes, especially the sound card. Check your computer could operate various playback tasks and no additional abundant files exist to disturb the progress of iTunes. Make sure the iTunes you have downloaded is perfectly compatible with your Windows.<\/li>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/ul>\nPart 2: How to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music but Progress Bar Moving?<\/h2>\n
You may come to find that sometimes your iTunes could playing music files, instead, the progress bar could move. If the case is falling to this category, then follow the methods below to repair. <\/p>\n
\u25b3<\/span> 1. Check audio settings<\/h3>\n
If the audio settings are not set properly, then you would not be able to play the music files on iTunes correctly. You could reset or change the audio settings to have a try. On windows panel, go to Volume Control Setting and navigate Speaker icon. Then click Advance and 2 channel 24 bit, 44100 HZ from the list. Save the settings and finally click OK to activate the settings.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n\u25b3<\/span> 2. Check output speaker settings<\/h3>\n
If you have set the audio parameters properly, but the problem still exists, then you have to make sure your output speaker has been connected to your computer in the right way. Furthermore, make sure your player has been plugged in correctly, and it is totally working well. You can change to another player as the alternative to make another try. <\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n\u25b3<\/span> 3. Update audio driver<\/h3>\n
Since iTunes is designed to work on Mac system at first, if you would like it to work properly on Windows, you have to make sure the audio drive in Windows has been updated. First you can search for Device Manager and choose Sound Video and Game Controllers option. Then right click on each item and finally activate Update Driver software.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nPart 3: Check iTunes Update to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music<\/h2>\n
If iTunes could not play music files once you have reset all the parameters, then you could try to check iTunes update. You can check the latest iTunes version and make sure you have installed the latest version of iTunes on your Windows. In some cases, if the iTunes version is too outdated, it would result in the failure of playing music files properly. Therefore, update iTunes if necessary and then have a try. <\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n\nSteps:<\/p>\n
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- Open iTunes on your Windows, and tap on the Help option. <\/li>\n
- Locate the Check for Update option. You can find the option if the update is available. <\/li>\n
- Follow the instructions to complete the update. Finally, restart iTunes and play the songs again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
Part 4: Repair Music Files to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music<\/h2>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/br><\/p>\nJust as mentioned above, if the music files you are playing is not made by iTunes, then it would not be able to play the files properly on iTunes, even though they are also encoded in AAC. But for iTunes, all the music files are encoded with MPEG-4 codes. In order to make the perfect compatibility, first of all, you have to check all the music files you have uploaded to the iTunes whether they are AAC format or MPEG-4 AAC format. <\/p>\n
Sometimes, you may find that even though the format is correct, you could not play the music files correctly on iTunes? Why does this happen? It is mainly because of the music files have been damaged or maybe some of the codec of the music files have lost which result in the improper playback on iTunes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Part 5: Clean Up iTunes Library to Avoid iTunes Crashed and Stuck<\/h2>\n
If iTunes Library is filled with too much abundant files or duplicate files, iTunes would encounter the crash and stuck problem. In order to avoid this from happening, you can seek help from Leawo Tunes Cleaner. Leawo Tunes Cleaner could be your useful tool to handle with the issues. As a comprehensive iTunes cleanup programs<\/a>, Leawo Tunes Cleaner could be used to remove the duplicates<\/a> in your current media player, download and edit music tags<\/a> as well as completing the music information, including the album, song name and artists and so on. With Tunes Cleaner, the music tags can be easily edited according to your own preferences. Furthermore, it allows users to detect the exact MP3 track information over the Internet. Please follow the steps below to edit the MP3 album info.<\/p>\n
Step 1. Download Leawo Tunes Cleaner<\/h3>\n
Download and install Leawo Tunes Cleaner on your computer.<\/p>\n
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Leawo Tunes Cleaner<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n
- Clean up iTunes library by fixing music files
\n- One click to manage any music collection high-efficiently
\n- Delete duplicate songs in iTunes without limits
\n- Automatically find and add missing music information
\n- Manually fix mislabeled song information and music tags
\n- 100% accurate, safe and speedy<\/p>\nDownload<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nStep 2. Scan music files<\/h3>\n
Open Leawo Tunes Cleaner and click \u201cOpen Music Files\u201d to scan the local MP3 files on your media player. Also, this program can scan the music folder as well.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nStep 3. Fix music files automatically<\/h3>\n
Fix the music files automatically first. Before editing the MP3 album info, you can launch the automatic scanning function of the software. After scanning, these MP3 albums with problems or incomplete information would be presented on the screen. Then click \u201cFix All\u201d to start fixing these albums first. Usually these information would be found via the Internet and then they could be matched accordingly.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nStep 4. Edit album info manually<\/h3>\n
These music files are usually stored in different groups. Then locate your targeted music files you would like to edit. Choose it and you can find the \u201cNew Tag\u201d option at the bottom where you can input the \u201cArtist\u201d, \u201cAlbum\u201d, \u201cYear\u201d, and \u201cGenre\u201d information. Once these information have been edited, then you can view the final version on the list.<\/p>\n
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- You may try to play an AAC file that was not made with iTunes, or an AAC file downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. The songs you download from the Music Store, or the songs imported into the music library using the AAC encoder are encoded in the new MPEG-4 AAC format, so they can be played in iTunes and iPod. Other AAC files you find on the Internet or elsewhere will not be playable in iTunes.<\/li>\n
- Part 2: How to Fix iTunes Not Playing Music but Progress Bar Moving?<\/a><\/li>\n
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