Latest iTunes build for OS X (not macOS) has playback issue for short tracks

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by Sindy Cator on June 23, 2016 at 5:02 pm

If iTunes has been giving you fits when playing tracks, you’re not alone. In the latest release, version 12.4, tracks shorter than 60 seconds seem to be in a continuous state of buffering. Via MacRumors, a forum post suggests that streaming music queues the next track when the currently playing track has less than one minute left, which is causing the problem: It looks like the way Apple Music handles streaming is when the current song is a minute from the end, iTunes signals the next track in the queue to start downloading so that it’s ready to play when…