Somewhere about ios5 time, new songs imported into iTunes would only play on my iPhone for a few seconds and then silence or skip to the next song in the playlist?and the same thing with the next song(s) and so on. Often, the song shown on screen would be the original while it has skipped to the next few song. Now with match, this happens among all my iDevices. Oddly, they play fine on my MacBook Pro where the iTunes library resides.
It's not the mp3 files themselves. It also happens with purchased or re-downloaded matched songs. I've deleted and recreated playlists with no difference. Turned off Match and synced songs directly onto my device. Nothing make a difference. There are numerous threads on Apple's discussion boards that have gone unanswered. Many posts report back that there's been no help from apple technical support either. However it does seem to be a widespread issue.
Nonetheless I've resolved this to be something corrupt or a bug in the iTunes database files. How can I trash the old database file and rebuild it?? What's the easiest way to do this?
It's not the mp3 files themselves. It also happens with purchased or re-downloaded matched songs. I've deleted and recreated playlists with no difference. Turned off Match and synced songs directly onto my device. Nothing make a difference. There are numerous threads on Apple's discussion boards that have gone unanswered. Many posts report back that there's been no help from apple technical support either. However it does seem to be a widespread issue.
Nonetheless I've resolved this to be something corrupt or a bug in the iTunes database files. How can I trash the old database file and rebuild it?? What's the easiest way to do this?