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My seventh generation iPod skips most of my songs. The song will show up for a second and then it will move on to the next one. All of my songs play perfectly in iTunes, and they all used to play just fine on my iPod. I've tried restoring my iPod and taking off the songs and putting them back on, but neither has had any effect.
iPod nano, Windows 10
You already did a Restore, as described here?
Are the songs (that don't play) in typical MP3 or AAC format? Or are they something like else Apple Lossless or WAV? You can check by finding one of these songs that don't play in your iTunes library, and doing a right-click Get Info on it. Look on the Info window's File tab.
If it's always the same songs that do not play, before and after the Restore, that suggests the cause is somehow related to the song file. If this happens with random songs, there may be a problem on the iPod, if doing a Restore does not resolve the problem.
You already did a Restore, as described here?
Are the songs (that don't play) in typical MP3 or AAC format? Or are they something like else Apple Lossless or WAV? You can check by finding one of these songs that don't play in your iTunes library, and doing a right-click Get Info on it. Look on the Info window's File tab.
If it's always the same songs that do not play, before and after the Restore, that suggests the cause is somehow related to the song file. If this happens with random songs, there may be a problem on the iPod, if doing a Restore does not resolve the problem.
I restored my iPod as shown above. All the songs are in the normal mp3 format, and they all used to play on my iPod. It's only recently that they've stopped playing. All the songs still play in iTunes. It's the same songs every time, but it seems like the number of songs that won't play is increasing. I've also found that the album art is also missing for all of the songs that won't play.
If you did a Restore and you re-synced all of your songs to the iPod, the cause may be a hardware problem on the iPod, such as a hard drive that is becoming unreliable. What does "stopped playing" mean specifically? Are you able to see and select those songs on the iPod? Does it just skip to the next song when you try to play it?
As a test, make note of about 10 songs that do not play. Be sure to note song Name and Album (because you may have multiple songs with the same name). Then, do another Restore. After the Restore, manually load only those specific songs (that did not play previously) on the iPod. IF those same songs do not play again, the cause may not be the iPod, but the song files as stored on your computer; they may still play in iTunes on the computer, but an iPod is less tolerant of data corruption. BUT if they play this time, the iPod's hard drive may be faulty; some portions of its storage media cause data corruption (when you do a full sync with all of your songs).
Edit: Sorry, I did not mean to say "hard drive." For an iPod nano (which does not use a hard drive for storage like older iPods), the same type of problem can occur to its flash-based storage. So the described test is still valid.
When I say "stop playing", I mean they show up on my iPod, and when I select them, the title appears for a very short period of time and then it skips to the next song. I found ten songs that didn't play, and then restored the iPod, reloaded the songs, etc. They still failed to play. What do you mean when you say the data may be corrupted?
If random songs start skipping, the cause is likely to be on the iPod. If it's always the same songs that skip on the iPod, even after a Restore and re-load, then the cause is likely to related to those particular song files, in some way, as currently stored on your computer. It does not necessarily mean "corruption." There could be something usual about the way those particular songs are encoded, that iTunes on the computer can handle, but the less flexible iPod cannot tolerate.
As a test, if you have songs with this problem that came from a music CD (and you easily find that CD), try removing that album (or just the songs with this problem) from your iTunes library, and re-import them from CD using iTunes (as either standard MP3 or AAC). If those songs are currently on your iPod, remove them so that they do not appear on the iPod. Then sync them to iPod again, with the "fresh" song files. Do the songs play properly on the iPod?
I have this problem too. Has it worked after you did all the suggestions?
I have this problem as well. Do you think that it might work if I use a different computer?
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