Weird problem with iTunes and one song

[davidd]

Today I decided to start experimenting with AAC, so I took 145 of my FLAC's and used foobar2000 (with the Nero AAC encoder) to convert them to AAC. I used the default MP4 extension for these.

Then I added the songs to iTunes' library, but only 144 were added. So after finding which song it was, I tried to add it by itself and it still wouldn't go.

I then thought that maybe it was a bad source file, so I re-ripped the disc to FLAC with EAC, and converted the songs to AAC with foobar again. same problem with the same song not wanting to be added.

After being frustrated for a while, I decided to ripped the song to AAC with the M4A extension instead, and iTunes added that fine.

So for some reason iTunes is happy with 144 songs having an MP4 extension, just not this one for some reason, which is puzzling me, so I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue ever and how did you fix it. I know I could just use the M4A extension for all my AAC's, but I'd much rather use MP4 since that's what the AAC specification says to use.

(the particular song is Dream Theater's The Rover / Achilles Last Stand / The Song Remains the Same medley from the A Change of Seasons EP if that matters any)

 

[Twitchy_one]

Have you tried it from another PC? Any errors in the Event Viewer->Application Log?

 

[AndrewFischer]

As a work around you could use iTunes to rip directly from the CD. You can use Apple Lossless or go directly to AAC at whatever bitrate you want.

 

[davidd]

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Originally Posted by AndrewFischer /img/forum/go_quote.gif As a work around you could use iTunes to rip directly from the CD. You can use Apple Lossless or go directly to AAC at whatever bitrate you want.

that's not really going to solve the problem as iTunes uses the M4A extension for AAC's, and in that the song shows up fine. It's just that with the MP4 extension it won't for some reason, yet the 144 other MP4's show up fine. and I'd much rather use EAC to rip my cd's to lossless, and then foobar + NeroAAC to encode them to AAC than iTunes.

I will try copying this "problem" MP4 to my MacBook when I get home and see if iTunes has any problem with it there.