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iPod classic 160GB skipping songs

I bought a new 160GB iPod only four days ago. I've noticed a couple of problems:

1) When playing a playlist, the iPod will sometimes skip a song. For example, when song 1 is finished, it will play song 3. It skips only some songs, but they are always the same ones. The songs played perfectly on my 80GB 5.5G. Unless I manually select them, they won't play along in the playlist. I've tried restoring and I updated to 1.0.1 but it didn't help.

2) I noticed the battery meter jumps all over the place when selecting different things on the iPod, especially videos. One second it was 3/4 full, the next it was 1/4, then back to half, thten it goes back to normal. Maybe it was doing that because it's a new battery, but I did calibrate it last night (fully discharge and fully charge) so maybe that fixed it. Haven't tried it yet. But has anyone else encountered this?

2.16GHz iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 20" 1GB / 250GB | 1.83GHz MacBook 13" 512MB / 60GB, Mac OS X (10.4.10), iPhone 8GB . . iPod 160GB silver . . iPod mini 4GB silver

Posted on Sep 16, 2007 12:54 PM

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TGV

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Oct 4, 2007 11:46 PM in response to Remy Dominik

My 160Gb (I upgraded it to 1.0.1 on first connection to iTunes) skips parts of songs too. Sometimes it stops for 2 seconds in the middle of a track and then continues or jumps to the next track. It will play properly for 30 to 60 minutes and then do that.

I did notice that when it does this, the volume bar shows up. Perhaps it's a faulty click wheel that does something without me touching it? I'm going to change it today.

boltech

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Oct 5, 2007 1:30 AM in response to TGV

Exchanged my 80gb Classic from the apple shop last nite, and guess what..and the exact same problem occurs, same tracks same place ***!!. so it must be firmware or itunes issue.

Come On Apple SORT IT OUT!!!!

Krutsch

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Oct 5, 2007 2:18 AM in response to Remy Dominik

I am having all of the same song skipping problems as posted by others. In addition, it's not just within playlists - it's also within albums. Always the same songs, and doing a complete restore and updating to 1.0.1 made no difference. I have an 80GB Classic that is at 60 GB capacity.

Note that I can manually play the skipped songs by navigating directly to them - they playback without error, but then the next songs are still skipped, if they were skipped before.

This behaviour occurs very frequently (i.e., a large number of songs do this) and has rendered my iPod useless. Thank God I am on a long trip to India so that I can learn to appreciate a world without music while away from home 🙂

Krutsch

Oct 5, 2007 3:59 PM in response to Boogie

I have a new 80GB iPod Classic that usually skips tracK #1 of any album when I select the album to play. It starts on #2 and then plays the rest. Not always but mostly!

Oct 6, 2007 2:30 AM in response to Remy Dominik

Hey there, I have the similar problem with my new iPod Classic 160GB, but in my case some songs don't even start playing... "progress" bar is freezed on 0s and I have to manually skip this song... it's really annoying :/ I hope that in the new firmware this problem will be solved yet 🙂

Oct 7, 2007 4:15 AM in response to rozumisz?

My Ipod classic (160gb) is experience this same problem. There's a particular song that starts playing and then stops at 0:52. If i fast forward to 1:30 or thereafter (as long as it's above 0:52), it plays for like 2 seconds before stopping again.
This has GOT to be the same problem. Pls pls pls can apple fix this?! DAMNIT!

davesony

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Oct 9, 2007 9:51 AM in response to Remy Dominik

I too am having the same issue with my 160 GB. Certain tracks only playing a couple seconds then jumping to the next track. Tunes that play fine otherwise. When is this fix coming? Super frustrating!!!!!

TGV

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Oct 9, 2007 10:41 AM in response to Remy Dominik

I've exchanged it for another one a couple of days ago. I've listened to four CDs now and watched 1 video (in two turns of about 25 minutes) and I haven't noticed anything odd.

When I connected the iPod, it updated to 1.0.2 and then I installed exactly the same library via iTunes (I hadn't changed the library since), so I think I can say it's not a problem in the library.

The guy in the shop muttered something about "probably a hard drive failure" and he might be right.

Oct 9, 2007 2:43 PM in response to TGV

So you believe that this isn't a firmware issue, it is a hardware issue????

TGV

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Oct 10, 2007 12:21 AM in response to Kenneth5537

That might very well be possible. This morning I've been listening to 1h15m (Bach's sonatas for cello, great music) and not one single problem.

Given the fact that there don't seem to be too many people with this problem and that there seems to be very little in common except that is has something to do with playing, I'd say a hard disk problem is not unlikely.

Since not many people post later experiences, only initial, it's hard to gauge though.

TGV

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Oct 10, 2007 12:39 AM in response to TGV

Suites, not sonatas...

Oct 10, 2007 7:07 AM in response to davervw

So far I only found it does this for 96Kbps track. Could be converted to mp3 with Real player, but not sure.
Already sent feedback to apple, but do not think I will get an answer.
If only they would come back with a possible cause..

Oct 10, 2007 8:37 AM in response to TGV

I just restore to factory settings and then did a re-sync of my 160GB ipod ... I'm unable to play the same songs. To me this points to a firmware problem, not a disk drive problem. If it were a disk drive problem, what are the chances that the same songs would be restored to the exact same area of the disk that is failing? The chances this could happen would be very slim indeed.

I hope Apple can figure this out and give us a firmware patch.

Kenneth

boltech

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Oct 10, 2007 10:00 AM in response to Kenneth5537

if you notice from my previous posts, i have the same problem with skipping tracks. I have tried everything (resync, remove and re-add to library, etc. etc) to cure this problem even took my ipod back and got a brand new exchange and yet the problem still happpens. have just tried the firmware upgrade 1.0.2 and this has still NOT fixed the problem!

TGV

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Oct 10, 2007 10:46 AM in response to boltech

Then again, if it's software, why would the problem be gone in my case? And if you copied the files in exactly the same order back, it might still be the same hard disk problem.

So, if you're interested in shedding more light on the issue, you could do the following.
1) Reset the iPod completely, wipe everything.
2) Copy your songs, but in a very different order. If you first did automatic sync, then now turn it off. Copy albums in random order.
3) Now play the songs that had the problem.

iPod classic 160GB skipping songs