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Subject: iPod skipping
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:45:00 -0400
From: Bradley Thompson 

No solution, just a "me too."

Exactly the same situation.

I replaced both the firewire and USB2 cards on the computer and the problem still hasn't gone away.  Wondering if it's actually iTunes that screws up encoding the files, or something going haywire through the transfer process.  40GB Pod, but I've never been able to get beyond 5 uncorrupted (usually not even that) aboard, though the Apple store gleefully put on about 8G -- supposedly without error, but who'll actually sit through 8 gigs of somebody else's music listening for the first skip.

One thing I tried that seemed to lessen the amount of skipped songs or songs that didn't complete playing was to defrag the library disk before syncing.

And the sheer volume of these kinds of complaints on the net makes me wonder why these things are still on the market -- at least for PC users.  

Hope you find a fix.  

-Bradley Thompson