iPod Nano skipping songs

It's an epedemic! Are we all on 1st Gens? I am on a black 2gb nano, 1st gen. Resetting doesn't work. Here's my story.

Bought some songs, backed them up.
downloaded 7.2 iTunes.
Ipod no longer registered. Hmm. Download new software for iPod.
Okay.
Skipping mess.
It's odd, but some songs played fine but others just didn't go. My songs play fine on my computer. The CD's, I noticed, play through the entire song. I will try to load all of my CD's back on, probably. This is not caused by your actual songs. I just bought a tangible album the day this incident occured at my local record store, and it skips. Faulty programming.

But, do you see a pattern emerging? 7.2, they released iTunes Plus, where you have to pay 30% more for songs (after all, it adds up; 30% of $1,000 is $300 straight to iTunes). Then, on the same day, your iPod won't read the old edition of some of your treasured iTunes. Has anyone tried to listen to iTunes Plus on their iPods? To test the water, I bought one song to try out (Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 by Pink Floyd; I remembered that Pink Floyd albums were previously upgraded from earlier today). Odd! It seems to be playing FLAWLESSLY, at 256 kbps, double any other bit rate at LEAST. Perhaps it's only just that one song, or maybe this is the plan for the lot of them. Since they reprogrammed the iPods (or at least nano)with to only read certain songs, namely iTunes Plus with only select others, will we have to upgrade in the future all of our songs? Even the ones we no longer own?

Accident or on purpose? I'll let you take your own guess at this one.

Alienware Windows XP Laptop

I'm having the same problems with my 3rd gen but it was happening before the last update and think it happens with different songs. I've just arranged for it to be repaired/serviced because i'd assumed there was something faulty with the ipod itself - is this likely to be a waste of time/am ilikely to be charged for sending it back when if it is a software problem?

I have the same problem on my iPod video. I can listen to any song exept those off of the newest CD I bought. When I select any song on that CD, it keeps skipping untill it gets to the song "When Your Gone," showing album art from other CD's. Any help is appreciated!

In general, I'm wondering about the kinds of song skipping. Mine is one song from iTunes (regular fairplay v2).

Is anybody having this same problem with a song that they ripped from a CD or with and iTunes plus song? Or is it only with the regular fairplay songs from iTunes Music Store? I'm hoping to swing by the apple store tomorrow and check in the with the geniuses, and i want all the info i can get.

I FIXED MINE!!!

ok, so I broke it, then fixed it. XD. I unplugged it when it said "Do Not Disconnect" and found that the problematic CD was gone. I shut down my computer and then I plugged it back in, it re-uploaded and then worked fine, no more skipping!!!!!!

I FIXED MINE!!!

ok, so I broke it, then fixed it. XD. I unplugged it
when it said "Do Not Disconnect" and found that the
problematic CD was gone. I shut down my computer and
then I plugged it back in, it re-uploaded and then
worked fine, no more skipping!!!!!!

Okay, so basically you're saying to unplug it, shutdown the computer, and plug the iPod back in?? Or is there more to it. Hopefully this is a solution?

I am having the same problem with last gen 2GB Nano. I tried unplugging from the USB cable, restarting my computer and then reattaching the Nano. No change. Clearly there is a bug in the new 1.3.1 software. Apple support, please investigate this and release a patch.

Yeah, basicly. I did get the CD deleated, though. I unplugged it when it said not to, erasing the CD that it was uploading. (the problematic one) and then I realized the CD, all but the problematic song, was missing. I plugged it back in, and then it re-uploaded, fixing my iPod.

My brand new 8GB iPod nano (? gen.) was delivered today and I followed all the listed steps: installed the latest iTunes 7 software, connected the player to my laptop and charged the battery before transferring tracks etc. To start off, I imported several dozen 192 kbps MP3s that I made sure were all ripped from CDs I own, just to be on the safe side.

Upon finishing, I selected the shuffle songs option and sucessfully played the first track all the way through. The next one (incidentally from the same album) cut off after only a few seconds, however, and moved on to the next song, which played about halfway through before skipping on to the next, which abruptly... Well, you get the idea 😟

Tried an iPod restart without success before moving on to a restore and downloading my music library all over again. This time I got through the first three songs uninterrupted before the hiccups started yet again. If it weren't for this thread, I'd be convinced that I had been sent a defective product or done something wrong during setup.

Rmr

HP ZE4420CA Windows XP

Okay, I'm determined to make Apple aware of this wide-spread problem!!! Does anyone know how to contact them over e-mail? I swear, I've looked everywhere and I cannot find a specific e-mail to contact them with. I guess they're not a fan of e-mailing...Well if anyone knows how to contact them post on this thread because I've suscribed to it and always check back in.
Thanks.

Here's an idea. You guys sparked my imagination. Sadly, it will cost you. $10. Is that alright?

Go to your local Office Depot, Sam Goody, etc.

Buy a 30 pack of CD-R's.

Burn these CD's with your computer.

Erase your iTunes.

Restart.

Rip CD's back into iTunes.

Back up your songs systematically.

I will try this and respond on the results. And... success! It works! There ya are, folks. Just always keep your songs backed up, and you're good.

Burn these CD's with your computer.
Erase your iTunes.
Rip CD's back into iTunes.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem. There was an album I downloaded form iTunes and none of the songs will play on my nano. They'll play on my computers, on my shuffle...but not on the nano. And it's just the ones from this one album.

And like the rest of you, I tried resetting, restoring, and any other number of things with nano and itunes--nothing worked.

SO, according to you, if I burn these songs to CD, then rip back to iTunes, all should be well? I'll certainly give it a try....

But it sure looks like somethings faulty in the Nano software--I hope they get a patch onto this bug soon.

Since the problem affects both Mac and Windows users, I would suspect that the only thing that made a difference was reverting from iTunes 7.2 to iTunes 7.1. The problem might still be in the Nano firmware, but it only manifests in combination with iTunes 7.2. I'm leaning toward that conclusion, since some of the posters who are reporting this problem with the Nano state that they can load the same songs on a different model iPod without the skipping problem. Apple really needs to solve this, not us.

Burn these CD's with your computer.

Tried it dude. It did no good. I'm on a Mac, by the way, so the other suggestion, the one relating mostly to Windows users, didn't help much either. I think it must be 7.2 iTunes.

Since the problem affects both Mac and Windows users,
I would suspect that the only thing that made a
difference was reverting from iTunes 7.2 to iTunes
7.1. The problem might still be in the Nano
firmware, but it only manifests in combination with
iTunes 7.2. I'm leaning toward that conclusion,
since some of the posters who are reporting this
problem with the Nano state that they can load the
same songs on a different model iPod without the
skipping problem. Apple really needs to solve this,
not us.

I agree. People shouldn't be expected to burn their iTunes library to CDs and retransfer everything -- or erase and reset iPods to no avail -- because of a bad software version. I'm 99.9% sure it's the software. I'm not an Apple expert, but I would think they'd be apt to do something about a new software version they push users to install.