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Subject: iPod skipping songs: me too
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:39:07 +0800
From: Jamie Clark 

I have a new (just out of box) 20Gb click wheel colour iPod (software  
1.2) and Mac Mini (iTunes 5.0).

last night I ripped a dozen or so CDs (AAC, VBR 256) and synchronised  
with ipod.
Today I use and find that some songs just refuse to play on the iPod.  
I thought it must have been a bad rip, but the same tracks play fine  
in iTunes. Very strange: the iPod will play track 1,2,3,briefly show  
track 4 title, then skip to track 5,6,7...

At this stage i Googled and found your page on this subject.

Went back and turned on error correction, re-ripped. Same story, same  
track won't play on iPod. Rest of album, fine.
Renamed the track, deleted on iPod, synchronised again. Same story.

I re-ripped one of the culprits (just the single song) as ALE and now  
it plays on the iPod.

This must be some kind of bug in the iPod.

-Jamie Clark (Singapore)