Flashing lights on ipod shuffle

the firmware might be damaged

Are these tracks podcasts or audiobooks?

Some non-music files are configured to be skipped when the Shuffle is set to 'shuffle' mode, and will produce only flashing lights if you press play with only those kinds of files loaded onto the iPod.

Try switching the mode switch on the shuffle to Continuous Play mode [this is indicated by a flattened oval loop symbol, as opposed to the Shuffle mode, which is marked with a sort of flattened stretched-out 'X'.

You should restore it. mine had the same problem! Restore it, it works

So I just won an ipod and hooked it up, charged it, and put music on it....But when I turn it on and press the play button the lights blink green, orange, green, orange, green, orange. When I press any of the other buttons other than play it just blinks green one time. I havent been able to listen to any music because the play/pause button does the blinking... I have also tryed restoring it and that worked fine, but after puting my music back on it it still did the same blinking and no playing. Oh man... Help please!!!

What's the origin of the music? Select a track, click on File>Get Info>Summary and tell us the format/encoding and bitrate.

its an mpeg-1, layer 3 audio file. I download all my music through Limewire... the bit rate is 156 kbps (VBR) and its encoded with LAME3.93

Hopefully this will help someone help me. I've heard of people uploading their Limewire files to itunes and putting them on their ipod... but mine wont put any music on it. Or it will do one random song out of 100. Thanks!!!

KCriss wrote:
its an mpeg-1, layer 3 audio file. I download all my music through Limewire... the bit rate is 156 kbps (VBR) and its encoded with LAME3.93

Hopefully this will help someone help me. I've heard of people uploading their Limewire files to itunes and putting them on their ipod... but mine wont put any music on it. Or it will do one random song out of 100. Thanks!!!

You might seek help at Limewire's support...

Ha! I got it to work somehow! I dont know what i did diffrently but when I hit autofill I had it import it from the recently added music... and it uploaded everything! Im so stoked! thanks for the help!

Thanks. This is exactly what was happening to me. I had only podcasts on the shuffle and in shuffle mode, the lights just flash. Switch to normal, and all is fine.