iPod won't play some songs iTunes will

[Jadey]

My iPod won't play some songs that iTunes will. It plays a few seconds, then skips to the next song. The entire song works fine on iTunes. How come?

[darkpaw]

Check Software Update. Apple have released iPod Software v1.2.6. Maybe that will sort out the problem?

[wkm1960]

My ipod will play in shuffle mode fine, then come upon a song, play a few seconds of it and then skip to the next song.

[wkm1960]

If you do a search for diagnostics mode, you will find a way to access diagnostics and one of them checks the hard disk. It displays HDD SCAN.

Mine is 4G. I depress the center button and menu to get reset, next I depress left button and center button to get the diagnostics. It took a few tries to get it there without having the regular Apple menus pop back up. I've ordered a box from Apple to have the unit checked, but am do a HDD SCAN right now just to make sure the disk is bad. If the HDD scan doesn't show any disk problems, I'll figure there is a problem in the way Itunes loads the songs. All of the songs play fine in Itunes. The Ipod stores songs in folders such as F42, F47, etc. I found that many of the bad songs were in the same folders, and that many of them started with B. I'm wondering if that coincides with where the songs are stored on the Ipod, and whether that area is damaged. If the Ipod hard drive is ok, then perhaps the songs are corrupt on my computer in such a way that my computer can play them, but the Ipod cannot, sort of how a DVD will play fine on one player, but lousy on another one.

[Makoto]

Are any of those songs encoded with variable bitrate (VBR)? I've had that happen to me on some rare VBR-encoded files the iPod apparently didn't like, but really didn't have a problem playing them in iTunes.

[dave1212]

I've only had that happen with OGG files. iTunes will play them (with the OGG QuickTime plugin (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41359) installed) but an iPod won't, unfortunately.

Still hoping for iPod support for OGG soon.