iPod stops song halfway through.

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iPod stops song halfway through.

This has happened for a long time, but it's finally bothering me enough to want to fix it... and before you ask, yes I did the 5 R's. Even though they all play perfectly fine on iTunes and Windows Media Player, certain songs I upload to my iPod will play and then maybe 30 seconds from the end, it will suddenly stop and the position bar skips to -01 seconds (1 second to the end). It then freezes for maybe 10 seconds and goes to the next song. Can someone PLEASE tell me why this is happening, it's incredibly irritating. As I said, I've tried the 5 R's, and I've tried reuploading the songs by unchecking and rechecking them in iTunes about 1000 times... I've even tried re-encoding the MP3's at a different bitrate. One thing that sometimes works is when I go and physically cut maybe a second off of the song with my audio editing program, but since this particular album has songs that lead into each other I can't do that in this case.

Either way, this shouldn't be happening and seems completely random. HELP!!!

Windows XP Pro

Posted on May 25, 2007 5:36 AM

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MuffinsQ Author

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May 28, 2007 2:54 PM in response to MuffinsQ

help!

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onion08

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May 28, 2007 8:39 PM in response to MuffinsQ

The same thing happens to my iPod!!! The only difference is that it jumps to -02 seconds, but that's almost the same as yours. The strange thing is this only happens to certain songs, while the rest play fine.

I know the problem is not the song files, because they work perfectly fine on my iPod mini. And I'm sure I installed everything right, especially since I followed the 5 steps exactly to ensure I made no mistake.

Why is this happening??? It's really frustrating and I would really appreciate it if someone helped us out!!

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jsalbre

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May 29, 2007 2:05 PM in response to MuffinsQ

I'm having exactly the same problem, and I have the 5Rs as well. Many of the songs that it does this to worked without problem previously, but now (last 2 months or so) will play roughly half to 3/4 of the way then go to -1 or -2. If I don't touch anything eventually the iPod goes on to the next song as if nothing happened.

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MuffinsQ Author

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May 30, 2007 4:37 AM in response to jsalbre

Have either of you figured out how to get around that problem?

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May 30, 2007 6:21 AM in response to MuffinsQ

If they are VBR mp3s, this might solve the problem:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?p=995280

If they are AACs, they might have been corrupted somehow, you might want to re-rip them with error correcting turned on.

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MuffinsQ Author

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May 30, 2007 6:59 PM in response to Jeremy Hallum

Ack, it didn't work - but thanks for trying!
I think you may be onto something though because the offending files do have variable bitrates.

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May 30, 2007 8:28 PM in response to MuffinsQ

I have the same problem and it just started. It's happening on some CBR tracks as well as some VBRs. It's really making me angry. All my CDs are in storage so it's not exactly a simple matter of re-ripping. I see that this problem goes back a few years, it'd be nice to have an official apple position on it. This is my 4th iPod (80GB video) and I NEVER had this problem before.

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May 31, 2007 6:41 PM in response to Johnnykrisma

Is there maybe a previous version of the iPod software that didn't have the problem?

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MuffinsQ Author

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Jun 1, 2007 6:00 PM in response to MuffinsQ

Help!

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onion08

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Jun 2, 2007 7:22 AM in response to MuffinsQ

Ok, so I followed the link and clicked somewhere and ended up at this place where I read people tried to reset the ID3 tag thing to version 1? I tried that and it improved by skipping -01 instead of -02.

And I checked through a lot of the songs the iPod skips. A lot of them don't indicate VBR! So that theory may not be the problem?

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MuffinsQ Author

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Jun 2, 2007 5:31 PM in response to onion08

You're right, I checked some other songs that hadn't been working and some were CBR, so apparently that isn't the problem (or at least not the ONLY problem).

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MuffinsQ Author

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Jun 2, 2007 6:26 PM in response to MuffinsQ

Ah! I figured out how to fix it.

Select the skipping songs and then right click and press Convert To MP3 and it will re-encode the files. Then you can just copy and paste over the existing files with the new re-encoded ones (which will be in the iTunes folder somewhere).

I don't know why re-encoding it with iTunes works but not with any other program but whatever - it works.

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jordof

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Jun 2, 2007 7:24 PM in response to MuffinsQ

I use Easy CD-DA Extractor to rip my music, always MP3 format, always 320kbps, then I use ADD FILE TO LIBRARY function in I-Tunes to import my music.

Is solution to this problem to re-rip all my 100s of CDs w/ I-Tunes? LMFAO. Is that the "common" scenario to this problem, that people have used other rippers than I-Tunes?

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onion08

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Jun 3, 2007 8:50 AM in response to MuffinsQ

Thanks, muffins!

I think I found another way to fix this too, so I'm share it just in case too.

So, what I did was delete the song from the library and then double click the file again to add it as a "recently added" new song. Without changing anything about the actual file, the song plays through on the iPod now. I'm not sue why that is, but it's worked for all the songs I tried it with so far.

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Jun 7, 2007 6:45 PM in response to onion08

That did it for me(deleting tracks from librarya and re-adding. Thanks Onion08!

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