Macbook Pro circa 2009
WD Passport external Hard Drive
+ iTunes
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= fail
Music skips ahead anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds into song
I bought a 500gb WD Passport HD a couple years ago in order to store my massive music library....first mistake? It crashed late last year and I sent it back losing only most of my music as a good deal was on my old iPod (and still is) and a few tidbits in my computer.
I got the replacement hard drive early this year and happily uploaded all of my music clearing my computer of a few gigs...loaded some songs onto a newer nano and every song in about 10% of the albums (could be more...haven't checked every song) automatically skips ahead at anywhere from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.
I've connected the drive to another mac (same problem) and I've tried firewire as well as usb (no luck). I've used Spotify as a media player and while it doesn't automatically skip ahead to the next song, it does cut out temporarily at the same trouble spot in each song.
Some of these songs are from god knows where, but others are no more than one transfer away from the original CD.
It seems to be a WD issue...(?)...but having a mac rather than a pc i figured troubleshooting and solutions might be different ie defragging, etc...
Has anyone come across this kind of issue?
WD Passport external Hard Drive
+ iTunes
--------------------------------------------------------
= fail
Music skips ahead anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds into song
I bought a 500gb WD Passport HD a couple years ago in order to store my massive music library....first mistake? It crashed late last year and I sent it back losing only most of my music as a good deal was on my old iPod (and still is) and a few tidbits in my computer.
I got the replacement hard drive early this year and happily uploaded all of my music clearing my computer of a few gigs...loaded some songs onto a newer nano and every song in about 10% of the albums (could be more...haven't checked every song) automatically skips ahead at anywhere from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.
I've connected the drive to another mac (same problem) and I've tried firewire as well as usb (no luck). I've used Spotify as a media player and while it doesn't automatically skip ahead to the next song, it does cut out temporarily at the same trouble spot in each song.
Some of these songs are from god knows where, but others are no more than one transfer away from the original CD.
It seems to be a WD issue...(?)...but having a mac rather than a pc i figured troubleshooting and solutions might be different ie defragging, etc...
Has anyone come across this kind of issue?