Comments on: iTunes Won’t Play a Song or Add MP3? Here’s a Simple Fix

By: Peter White

Peter White — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:42:36 +0000

Just google search Step by Step Guide on How to Solve “can’t add music to iTunes” Problem?

you will find a simple solution on “iTunes won’t add music” issue which helps to import all kinds of music like FLAC, OGG, WMA, CAF, MP2, SHN, QCP, MPC, PCM, APE, AMR, AWB, AC3, AUD, RA and etc to iTunes!

By: Play music files immediately in the Finder with Quick Look

Play music files immediately in the Finder with Quick Look — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:10:01 +0000

[...] mentioned this briefly when describing a problem when iTunes won’t play a song but it would play in Quick Look, and realized that many people might now know that Quick Look can [...]

By: long dong

long dong — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:50:08 +0000

The only problem is it lowers the bit rate to 128kbps which sucks.

By: Khodi

Khodi — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:43:02 +0000

No one realizes that this is not a fix but simply a way to perform a lossy transcode? The audio quality is horribly degraded. You can’t take a compressed audio file and further compress it. For people who care about audio fidelity this is a cardinal sin.

My ears are cringing.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 11 May 2011 01:20:11 +0000

Thanks a lot! This really works! I had trouble playing a certain .mp3 in iTunes and this was simple and fast!

By: eekii

eekii — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:25:48 +0000

it works, but i lose a lot of quality the bitrate drops from 320kbps to 128kbps.

By: Kinsey

Kinsey — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:33:19 +0000

Thank you so much! I have tried so many things to get my MP3′s to play and this worked (and was ten times easier and free) Thank you!
-Kinsey

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:08:00 +0000

Man thanks so much bro, this worked for me and i have tryed some other bs, thanks for the advice man, it really helped, i will refer my friends to you if they have the same problem. Thanks again bro ur a saviour – Mitch

By: slappy

slappy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:30:34 +0000

um… only works if you have quicktime pro…

By: Repair MP3’s - OS X Daily

Repair MP3’s - OS X Daily — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:36:49 +0000

[...] software you can try some other methods. I’ve found creative workarounds in the past when iTunes won’t play a song that involves importing the file into QuickTime and exporting it as a movie track before [...]

By: Convert WMA to MP3 in Mac OS X for Free - OS X Daily

Convert WMA to MP3 in Mac OS X for Free - OS X Daily — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:18:59 +0000

[...] a program like this is helpful when iTunes won’t play a song, it’s usually because the format is incompatible with iTunes or because the file is [...]

By: Will

Will — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:00:21 +0000

Good suggestion, article updated. Thanks!

-Will

By: conyo

conyo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:54:20 +0000

Es un buen tip.

Pero vamos, iTunes esta hecho para tocar files mp3. que arreglen el bug!!

By: Arnan

Arnan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:44:58 +0000

But the resulting m4v file is often treated as an video file. You’d want to rename the file to m4a at least to make iTunes treat it as an audio file.