Originally Posted by
snowdog
Well, I'm on a Mac, so it wouldn't be foobar2000, but the tracks all play perfectly in VLC & Quickltime & also in the finder, so I was convinced they were not the problem.
I started reading up on others who's experienced this problem - which appears to be a bug in iTunes - & seem to have found a workaround.
And I've dragged this thread way off-topic, so I'll just say that shutting down everything that actively synced whilst I was converting from AIFF to MP3 seems to have resulted in a clean set of MP3s. Which makes me a very happy bunny. For a change.