skipping to next song

ok..i fixed the ephpod configure to F19...hopefully that is it..the files arent corrupted, so maybe this will work...thanks Adam!
-jason

checked step 2 and 3 and it didnt help...not all the songs that skip have accents in them so i do not think it is step 1...any other ideas? i hate to send it to apple figuring they are just going to send it back to me with nothing changed...
-jason

Adam-
good point!
I actually had just thought of that myself as well...
Gonna decide if i wanna wipe it clean and do it...let's see how long I can hold out :)
gracias, Adam..be well everyone...
-jason

:( Its going back to Apple now. Hopefully they actually test it this time.

I don't think its a bug, because only a small number of people are experiencing the problem. I've given some of my tracks to a friend that has the same computer and the same model iPod and his does not have the problem. My guess would be that it has something to do with the hard drive taking longer than expected to spin up and load. I'll post here once I get my iPod back (for the second time).

Just to finish this off for future reference, I did receive my new iPod replacement and the problem no longer happens.

I too am having problems with my 15BG new ipod am running the latest software 2.0.1. I'm experience alot of 'lock ups' or the 'screen/songs freezing up' which only seems to be resolved by restarting....which by the way I've had to do 6 times today!

I'm also having problems intermittently when I select a new album to play. Sometimes it just shuffles through the songs and doesn't play any of them and goes back to the main menu. Other times i'll select a particular song in an album and it will jump one song or two songs ahead and start play. If I try to select the last song in an album it hangs there as if its going to play but then just goes back to the main menu without playing.

All these problems seem to be resolved by resetting but...its not really a 'solution' as I am continually having to reset the ipod.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...I'de prefer not to have to send it back to Apple :)

Same problem, songs that played before are now being skipped. Even if I pick the 5th song, after a pause the 6th one starts to play. I tried reformatting the ipod twice last night, NG. I already had ephpod to include the f19 directory. I'm bringing it back to the apple store at lunch, I'll let everyone know what happens.

I Bought my new ipod ( finally ) 10GB. Its fantastic except for 1 gripe that is ruinining the whole experience. Songs are constantly skipping either at the start or at some random point. It also makes these really iritating Whirring/ skipping sounds while song are playing.

What is happening? I 've already wipe it claen using Ephpod and reloaded the songs but it seams to have got worse.

I dont think its things 1,2,3
Please please help me

Originally posted by ashawley
yeah, if you searched for "skipping" and increased the # of days to search for you probably would have found it. But...

Basically it can happen in one of 3 ways:

1. You have songs that have foreign characters in the file names (such as accents) and you aren't using a program that renames files when it uploads (you can configure ephpod to do this, but it doesn't do it by default I don't believe).

2. You are using ephpod and you have it set to store all songs in the F00 directory on the iPod. Change this to F00-F19 on the Configure Ephpod menu (Advanced tab)

3. You have a corrupted mp3 (you'll need to search the boards for what to do here, there's a program around that will help fix them).

Oh, there is a forth one...it's a bug. ;) But usually it's one of the 3 above.

Adam

Man:

This was the second post in this thread...did you read it? Have you checked these things?

Adam

dmarcus:

I was referring to Man, that's why I included his user name in the post. ;)

Adam

Originally posted by nasus
I too am having problems with my 15BG new ipod am running the latest software 2.0.1. I'm experience alot of 'lock ups' or the 'screen/songs freezing up' which only seems to be resolved by restarting....which by the way I've had to do 6 times today!

I'm also having problems intermittently when I select a new album to play. Sometimes it just shuffles through the songs and doesn't play any of them and goes back to the main menu. Other times i'll select a particular song in an album and it will jump one song or two songs ahead and start play. If I try to select the last song in an album it hangs there as if its going to play but then just goes back to the main menu without playing.

All these problems seem to be resolved by resetting but...its not really a 'solution' as I am continually having to reset the ipod.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...I'de prefer not to have to send it back to Apple :)

I am having exactly the same problems that you listed in your post. I am seriously considering sending my ipod in for repairs. It has a lot of scratches + bugs + crappy battery life (brand new and certainly not 8 hours of life)

Skipping in the middle of songs was not what I was referring to. The way you can tell if it''s the iPod or not is to see if you get the same skipping when played through your PC. If not then it's either a) you're firewire card or b) the iPod.

Try and isolate it to being the firewire card by syncing your ipod w/another PC (using on of the songs that you've experienced skips on.

If you still have skips, then it's definitely the iPod.

Adam

I've been having the same song skip problems with my 2nd gen 10gb.. It doesn't happen every time, but when I select a song it tends to skip that song and start playing the next song on the album/playlist.. It was annoying at first, but it's getting more and more irritating.

A bunch of you seem to have gotten your ipods replaced. Mine's out of it's 30 day warranty, but I've got a CompUSA TAP warranty on mine. I'd love to have one that doesn't skip the song I want to hear, think I can get them to replace it because of this?

Originally posted by ashawley
Did you first try the fixes outlined in these posts (for example mine). Particularly if you're using ephpod.

If your not, take it in and see.

Adam

I'm not using ephod, I'm just a textbook mac user so that's not it... I listen to a few albums / playlists on there fairly regularly and it doesn't happen every time. There aren't any wierd characters and the files do play so corruption is out. Usually when it happens I can skip back a track to get to where I wanted to begin listening..

I allways assumed it was just a wierd iPod quirk, annoying but normal. Now I see it's not just a quirk but I'm also not sure if it's worth using my TAP on. hmmmm.

Also, does anyone know what CompUSA would do with my older 10gb? would I get the new and $100 cheaper ipod without wired remote which I have, or would they substitute in the 15gb which costs the same and gives me the remote like I had with the 10gb.

Hey, for those of you who took your iPod back to the store, how old was your iPod? I just spoke with Apple Support and they said the stores only do exchanges for iPods purchased within 5 days.

He said since mine was around a month old, I'd have to send it in for service which I'm really NOT looking forward to doing.

Oh.. My iPod Woes...

So.. I saved all my songs and stuff and took my iPod in to the Apple store. I called first and told the guy that I had to have my iPod in time for my Vacation on Thursday. I was told to "bring it in, we'll take care of you"... So I took it in..

The tech there wasn't willing to admit it was a hardware issue unless he could keep my iPod and test it. Testing is done by reformating the iPod with an Apple and loading it with iTunes. Windows users be darned, the only way to test an iPod is with Apple by gosh!

He told me he would have the test results by tomorrow evening and if it tested defective he would order the parts for a repair, either on Wednesday or Thursday morning and they would arrive "in a day or two".

huh? What happened to the "We'll take care of you" and my need to have my iPod on Thursday morning?

Oh.. it seems they didn't have any 30gig iPods in stock.. Now Why the heck didn't the guy on the phone tell me that in the first place! I could have told him it wasn't a software issue!

However, to please the Apple gods, I reformated and reset my iPod as a test. I Downloaded 4 albums and 4 playlists to it. Imagine my surprise (none) when it STILL DID IT!!

It's a freaking hardware issue people!!!

Feedback sent! :-)

Now.. I wonder if there is an Apple Store in Orlando or Key West that could do the repair..hmm.. I've only got a 20gig drive in my laptop so I couldn't take all my music and restore my iPod even if I could get it repaired..

Oh well.. guess I'll have to deal with it and get it fixed when I get back.. :-(

OK... final update on this...

I called the Apple Store on Wednesday.. and got put on hold for 20 minutes. After I hung up and called back in, the guy told me that my iPod should arrive on Thursday and that they would call me.

On Thursday, at 4:45 (just before leaving work) I hadn't received any calls, so I called them again. I was told my new iPod was in and that they just hadn't gotten around to calling yet.

I went directly to the Apple store to swap out my iPod.

The guy at the counter COULDN'T find it!! Finally after about 30 minutes of waiting, they finally found my iPod and brought it out still in the shipping box from Apple. I opened it up and there inside was a brand new 30gb iPod!

The first thing I did was put it in it's new protective case and then went home and reloaded it.

All I did to reload it was copy the iPod_control (or something like that) directory on to the new iPod. This copied all my music and playlists. I've not had a single problem with this new iPod!

Oh.. one thing that did surprise me... The new iPod came with version 2.02 of the software and my 2.01 PC wouldn't work with it. I ended up having to downgrade the iPod to 2.01 which was the lastest version avaliable from Apple.com.

Anyway.. it's working fine and I have no problems with it..

bump, anyone? :)

I only know the certain ways to reproduce it I outlined in my earlier posts.

If you're using ephpod, make sure you've got the option set to store your tunes in folders F00 through F19 (it stores them in F00 by default which is not correct).

Adam

Hi guys. Adam, none of the conditions you mentioned apply in our case. My songs are distributed amongst all 20 directories, and there are no funky characters. I edited all the info myself.

Mockba, I'll try to find that diagnostic procedure. Let me know if you happen to remember where it is.

Thanks!

Gavin

As expected, the disk scan reported no problems.

I'm pretty convinced it's a timeout problem when reading either the directory or the file. If you go into the iPod with Explorer and manually delete a file and then try to play it, the same behavior results: dropping down to the next file in the list. The delay isn't as long, however, as it is when the erroneous skipping behavior occurs.

If a file can't be found, the iPod should display an error message saying so. But it is typical of Apple to hide critical information, as a "favor" to the user.

I have the 3G 40gig and have the same skipping problem. After a song is skipped, and I press "back", it plays the song without a problem. Just very annoying having to do this all the time.

i sent my ipod in yesterday for repair becuase it won't even turn on anymore. Hopefully they will accidentally give me a 40gb ipod :-) that doesn't skip