iPod is just skipping over songs

[Danzindiz]

Doesn't happen to all songs. But it just skips over 5 or 6 songs. They aren't on the "skip when playing" or whatever that option is. And it only happens on playback from the ipod not iTunes. Suggestions?

[fracai]

I've had tracks that iTunes plays that the iPod cannot as well. Actually, those tracks would begin to play, but would end before they should. I think I figured out that they were VBR encoded with an incorrect header. I've never had the problem with iTunes encoded tracks though. These were from a podcast and I was able to fix the problem by re-encoding with iTunes.

Why not just re-rip with iTunes? Or re-encode the files with in iTunes. You'll lose quality that way so I'd go for re-ripping.

[solipsism]

I currently have that issue with an 8GB iPod Nano. The problem was intermittent and never happened with the exact same set of tracks.

I found no solution, but my work around is to reboot the iPod.

[BadgerUMD]

I had a very similar problem that turned out to be a disk error that was messing up the directory structure (and making some files malformed, so the iPod would just skip them when playing back). My temporary fix was to completely clear and reload the iPod's software from iTunes, and re-copy the files over. That held out for several months until the hard-drive went completely bad.

If the problem is more intermittent or it turns out the problem isn't an encoding problem, I'd run a complete "Repair Disk" using disk utility on your iPod, then reloading it's software.

[Danzindiz]

I found no solution, but my work around is to reboot the iPod.

reboot as in restore?

I'd run a complete "Repair Disk" using disk utility on your iPod, then reloading it's software.

I ran that & this is what came up-

Verify and Repair volume “Liz iPod”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Liz iPod appears to be OK.

i can't just erase the songs that it skips, bc it goes over them so quickly. it doesn't even play a clip. Just shows up on the screen & then goes to the next & usually its like 5 or 6 in a row it does it w/. Or until it can get one that plays. it happens when it's on shuffle.


i'm also noticing that i update it, and i took it off for a second and decided i wanted to charge it using the computer, and it updated again and inbetween that short period of time i did nothing in itunes. shouldn't it update everything the first time around?

[solipsism]

No, reboot as in powercycle the iPod.

[Danzindiz]

but what is that? how do i do it?

[solipsism]

Press and hold the Play/Pause and Menu buttons simultaneously until the Apple/iPod logo appears, about 6 to 8 seconds.

[stagolee]

I've suffered the same problem with 3 or 4 mp3 files.

I used iTunes to convert them to AAC and that proved to be an effective workaround.