Trevin Chow

Microsoft Group Program Manager and Seattle Photographer

iTunes 8 skips forward multiple songs instead one

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ituneslogoAs soon as I upgraded to iTunes 8 I immediately noticed a problem where clicking the “Next track” button when shuffle was off would skip ahead 2 or 3 songs instead of going to the next track.  After consulting with a few friends that couldn’t reproduce the problem, I realized it was something specific with my setup.  I started up iTunes in safemode (hold CTRL+SHIFT as you start up iTunes) to disable all plugins:

iTunes starting in safe mode

After doing this, the problem was solved! This obviously meant it was one of the plugins I had installed was the culprit, which meant it was either the plugin from iLike or Last.fm.

I first uninstall Last.fm, but that didn’t fix it, so I then uninstalled iLike. Bingo!  Problem was immediately solved.  To make sure it was specifically the iLike plugin, I re-installed the Last.fm plugin to double check.  Yup, iTunes was working as expected still.

I’ll have to shoot a bug report over to Craig, who is now working at iLike to get them to fix this.  It’s good having “connections” sometimes!

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Written by Trevin

September 13th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

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  1. just got a newer version of iLike plugin which seems to have fixed the problem. glad i found your site – thought I was going crazy!

    emily

    26 Sep 08 at 9:14 pm

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