Ipod Pausing all teh time and skipping through a track after 5 seconds

[timbogray]

Has anyone seen or heard of this before. I dont want to have to send it back but its getting silly when Im driving along and every 30 seconds I have to hit play or I select a track i really want and it just plays 5 seconds getting em all ready to listen to it and then it skips to the next track!!!

Slightly annoying so if anyone can help it would be brilliant!

[slacker]

Sounds like it could be a bad unit. Few questions:
- Is it random or always happens 5 seconds into a song? Certain songs?
- Do you turn off the input using the slide lock? Vibration might trigger one of the buttons to go off if it is sensitive.
- Does the behavior change with the power source? Does it happen when just running from battery? Do you have an auto dock or something? A bad power cable used then running could cause the drive to go undervoltage and reset. Similarly a loose dock/power cable could cause the ipod to reset or go into sync mode.
- What is the source of the mpegs? Does it happen on every track or just certain ones? I had some tracks from an audio tape (book on tape) I ripped on a Linux box and one of the tracks would cause the ipod to freeze. Converted the track to AAC and the problem went away.

[18spheres]

I have a 40GB iPod and it's been working properly ever since I got it in 7 months ago.

Now when I play tracks it skips tracks over and over again and eventually stays on one tracks and plays. If I choose a partricular album, it will skip all the tracks and not play anything.

Any advice is welcome.

[Caius]

I've had this with a 40GB 4G iPod and a 4GB 2G iPod mini. It randomly skips tracks after the first 5/6 seconds, and if you backtrack to the song it plays it fully.

Its just totally random behaviour on my two iPods, and I haven't heard it for a while.