Same problem, only had mine a few days, been a anti Ipod person since dawn of time and always had Sony walkman's and thought i would finally have a change and try the "Touch" with it's nice touch screen navigation.
At first i thought it was the same problem i used to have with the dreaded SonicStage with my Sony walkman software which done the same thing on playback as is happening with the "Touch" but in that case it was having other programmes running or using computer at the same time Sonicstage could not cope with.
I hope Apple can prove me wrong by fixing this fault and i can have hopefully a start to a good long marraige with my "Touch" but by looking at this forum and taking note Apple do not seen verbally or visually seen to be doing anything to resolve issue i remain doubtfull.
Please Apple, this is where you get respect and more customer's and a better name/maintaining company image = $$ by sorting out these issues or at least have better openess and commucnication in admitting there is a problem and the root cause of it and what the company is actually doing something to solve it, then people experiencing this will have more patient's perhaps knowing that at least Apple ar trying.
Finger's crossed!
Dissapionted to find out that was not the case until i came across this forum to see the bigger picture to this problem (and that i was not the only one!) again like all you guys on here have a nice pair of cans to listen to it on (Shure E530's) so do not want to drop on the sound quality.
All i cam say is by reading this forum and not knowing without clarification for sure from what seem's to be "bury your head in the sand" "Apple" i am "Mr. Iggnorant to the subject" are we all left with a redundant player(we cannot really use (unless you like mp3 or acc format).
Just adding to this thread as the more people do have this problem, then Apple must see that there is potentailly enough percentage of bad user experience for them user's to disrecomend Apple to friends ot themsekve's leave for another brand that it can start to effect possible sales and bad image for company they will have to try and resolve issue (if not already, be nice if they at least notified us the stand point and status or acknowledgement they are taking it seriously at moment in time!).
So my anti Apple Ipod feelings seemed to have been justified after all these years only for my first experience of laying out £200+ for an player that cannot do the job properly!
Any way the sound quality on the "Touch" is not as good as my Sony and in the mean time plan to shelve the "Touch" for now until a answer has been found by "bad Apple" & if not will simple sell it on and give up Apple brand for ever and i will now go and buy my first choice anyway which i should of gone with in the first place!, the "Cowon D2" - pretty much best sounding player out there despite it's tricky user interface and not been as pretty as the "touch" and having it's own baggage (even though this will play flac files without skipping/dropout!) will now go with this. If you guys want a high end protable player look no further than the D2 (check them out).
Just hope Apple get their act together by the time Sony bring out their first touch screen player, otherwise Apple migh find it start's to get sliced open slowly!
P.s. Been a newish I-tunes user; i thought every one used to moan about Sony SonicStage back in it's day, but I-tunes is not even a patch on that when it comes to common sense layout and flexibility as a user interface and how you can choose to move files around. And that's now on version 8! When are Apple going to earn their money then and produce a top rate bit of I-tunes softeare programme?
