160Gb Classic skips songs, iPhone doesn't...

There is one album (Kool & the gang) tahts is completely skipped on my Classic iPod. On my iPhone and inside iTunes all files are played correctly.
Anyone an idea or suggestion for me, how i get it working on the Classic too?

Sigh, found a solution myself:
the id3-tags on the songs of this album been all set to 0.
no idea why, but changing this values to the actual length made them work on the iPod classic too. Still a little irritating why the 3 products seem to make use to the id3-infos differently...

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Classic skipping songs

I have the same problem *** others seem to be suffering. My old Classic starting picking on certain artists and refusing to play them, just skipped through the songs. It was gradually adding new artists to its banned list, grew from 1 to 7 in about 12 months, which was worrying. I re-installed iTunes, reset the ipod etc no luck. I have copied the songs to a friend's iPod and they play fine, as do they on my iPhone - the problem was the Classic iPod.
I sent it off under warrenty and they said it was uneconomical to repair and gave me a full refund. I have just bought a new 160gb Classic (need this size for all my music) and exactly the same thing is happening with the same artists! This seems to me to be a Classic issue?
Can anyone help me please?

Hi -Bilbo from Cheshire has solved my skipping issue and it may work for you too? The problem seems to be corrupted MPEG headers (whatever they are!), and the Firmware with the latest iTunes is less tolerant of errors in the headers. Apparently. Anyway, I downloaded MP3Validator (just googled it and there was a helpful tutorial from another tech guy) it is free. You find any tracks or whole albums that are skipping and ask it to check them - it does, then solves the problems. Delete the tracks from your iPod and then re-install them using "find folder" option, re-sync the ipod and they work.
or at least they do for me! Hope this helps.

IPod Classic Skipping Songs?

Ever since yesterday my iPod Classic has been skipping songs when I press the next button. I browse songs by artist, and when I choose the first song in an album instead of saying like '1 of 6' it'll say '4 of 6' and then it'll just go through the songs arbitrarily. :/
I also can't locate the voice recorder feature either. I treat my iPod Classic as if it were my child, this recent malfunction has really gotten me shaken.

Forgot to mention, I've already tried hard resetting, didn't do anything.

IPod 80gb Classic skipping songs

I have a new 80gb iPod Classic which skips over songs randomly. I can play a song and have it skip to the next song, but go back and play the song again without skipping so it is not skipping over in the same spot, or even same song. This is incredibly irritating because I often listen to radio shows I put on my iPod which are 4 hours long that I have to go back to where it was 3 or 4 times for one show.
Any help would be appreciated.

Okay, I think I have a similar problem. I posted this in another thread, but I think it may help you more.
I have a brand new 120 GB, 6G iPod Classic, (fully updated) less than a month old I put all my music on it (I have about 22 gigs worth) and I started using it. I mostly play music via playlist and shuffle. In the MIDDLE (or end, the point is, the song would be playing fine) of a playing a song in a playlist it would decided to skip to the next song (no pattern to when or which song it would skip, it was just random) The first time it happened, I was like okay, weird, skipped back, and it played the same song all the way through with no problems. Then a few songs later it would do the same thing. Again, completely random.
I started researching like crazy over the past week, and discovered it was a pretty common problem. I read a number of possible explanations, it was a hardware defect, it was a software defect, there was a problem with the new iTunes transferring songs. I decided to pursue the latter. I read into it some, a lot of people seemed to be convinced there is a problem with the new iTunes and transferring a large quantity of music. I read someone recommend a program called Mp3 Validator that scans music files and fixes and problems that may cause them to skip. (presumably why the songs worked fine in iTunes but skip randomly once transferred to the iPod)
Anyway, to make a long story longer, I tried the program, scanned the music files directly off my iPod music directory--it fixed a couple hundred problem files. I had it going today, just playing through the playlist, got through 10-12 songs without any skipping. Granted, it wasn't an extended listening session, but I'm holding on to hope.
I can't say for sure that this fixed the problem, or if it even WAS the problem (for all I know it COULD be a hardware defect). But if you are getting REALLY frustrated by the random skipping, you could give it a try.
I'll definitely be having an extended play session with it this weekend, so I can give you an update on whether it is a surefire solution or not.

Volume Drops When Skipping Song (via Lightning Adapter)

I currently have an aftermarket iPhone connector in my car, to which I have attached a Lightning adapter. On the road today, whenever I skipped a song (using the button on my car stereo), the volume dropped considerably for the next song. Only when I used the "fast forward" button did the volume increase back to its normal level. If I let the playlist go from one song to the next uninterrupted, the volume stayed as is.
Given the sequence of the events, I am assuming it is either the phone or Lightning adapter. While I did a hard reset, I have not had a chance to test in the car again. However, I do not experience the same issue with regular headphones.

Yes! Same problem here on two different iPhone 4s (mine and my wife's). If I watch the volume bar on the phones when I skip songs, it doesn't move, but the actual volume output drops to about half. Like the original poster, pause/play seems to fix it... until the next time I switch songs.
SoundCheck is off everywhere (phones and iTunes), so no help there.
Yet another reason to miss my 3GS, I guess...

My music won't play on my ipod classic 160GB and it skips songs can anyone help me?

My ipod classic 160GB won't play my music there is sound coming from it but the music won't play and it skips songs as well does anyone now how to fix that?

Have you checked if your Earphones are working?
Do you get the Music menu after the reset? (what is display on the Screen? song playing)
Normally if you Reset the iPod, it will turn the shuffle mode off, but do check under setting that shuffle mode is off.

160GB Classic is skipping songs and entier albums, sometimes locking up for no reason.

I newly purchased a 160GB iPod classic to replace my 3-year+ old 16GB touch. I found myself wanting more storrage to music and less of games and apps, so it was a no brainer. Anyway, there have been many problem to come with this item and now I'm not sure if I want the pain and agervation that comes with the classic.
Just today I noticed tracks in my playlist would skip. Sometimes the song would never play or the song would get 30-50 seconds in and just skip to the nest. All these problems are on a full-album scale: if one track has this problem, then they all do. Also, mor recently, the iPod has been locking up on me. Even when I just go to connect it to my PC with the USB cable, it will lock-up right when connection is made which will force me to do a device reset. I know the classic is HDD based and not flash memory, but, I can assure you, I've been very careful with it. I always am with my stuff.
I tried to remody these issues with a factory reset thorugh iTunes but this just seemed to make it worse. I've even had iTunes to my iPod is corrucpt and needs to be factory reset.
Should I just take it back while I still can and exchange it for a (maybe?) working version?
Thanks!

Skipping songs are due to corrupted MP3 tag headers, so no point in getting a new iPod, you just need to get your music in your iTunes library fixed by a free 3rd Party software called MP3 validator.
Google it and run for all your music in the library.
Good Luck!

160GB Classic 6th Gen Pauisng And Skipping Songs

I have a 160gb 6th generation that bought in Aug 2008. Just a couple of days ago my iPod started pausing and skipping songs by itself. I did some research and found out this a problem for this model. Does anybody have any ideas to correct this problem? I'm going to the apple store today but I have a feeling they are going to say "nothing we can do about it". My AppleCare warranty ended last month and I spent $350 plus tax on this iPod I want it to last longer than this.

I have a 160gb 6th generation that bought in Aug 2008. Just a couple of days ago my iPod started pausing and skipping songs by itself. I did some research and found out this a problem for this model. Does anybody have any ideas to correct this problem? I'm going to the apple store today but I have a feeling they are going to say "nothing we can do about it". My AppleCare warranty ended last month and I spent $350 plus tax on this iPod I want it to last longer than this.

Is there a song limit on 160gb classic

I have two 160GB classics - one I have had for several years but the buttons have worn and it doesn't respond as well. Since Apple wouldn't repair it, I got a second. Both exhibit the same behavior though that they will play a playlist no problem but when I select a song they will freeze (apple logo) and even after a reset will not play again until they are re-synced with my itunes library. I have an extensive song collection and use the 128k bit compression to get as many songs on as possible. Right now I have 35,000+ songs with some space left on my ipods (both are set to sync all checked songs). Restoring them has been tried but due to the compression, each takes about five days to delete and then reload all the songs. I am willing to do that if i know it would work. As I said however, I done that with both and still have the problem. I don't want to have to create playlists to swap on and off because it defeats the purpose of the extra compression to put more tracks on. Before I compressed to add the tracks, I had much more unchecked but I was maxed out on space so if I wanted to add something new I needed to remove something, hence the lower bit rate. I think it may be a limitation in the software and whatever it uses for indexing and searching but I have seen no documentation talking about song limits. Anyone with a similar experience and/or suggestions?

did you experience some crashing of the ipod as well? do you know how many separate items you had?

160 GB iPod Classic just started skipping songs. Is there a fix?

My 160 GB iPod Classic worked flawlessy for about two years and now has begun to skip songs. Always after the same playing time from zero to around 48 seconds. About 5% of the songs skip, but the list is growing and it seems to happen at random. I am on iTunes 9.2.1 (5) on my iMac running Tiger OSX 10.4.
(I also have an older 60 GB iPod that is working fine). I have read many strings by this community concerning this problem and cannot seem to find a good solution here. It seems like some sort of corruption issue. My iTunes library seems to be fine. If I delete an album from the iTunes library and then synch the iPod Classic to delete the same album from the iPod Classic then re-burn the album to iTunes and then resynch the iPod Classic, the album plays just fine. Of course, I do not wish to hunt and peck for all the bad songs in order to clean them up, especially if more corruption is going to happen. This is a maddening problem as many of you know. It drives me nuts and ruins my enjoyment of my music with this 160 GB iPod Classic.
My music is all in the AAC audio file format and I have about 8700 songs, some 25 music videos, 25 podcasts and thousands of photos taking up around 63 GB of space on my iPod Classic. I sure wish that everyone who is having this skipping problem can band together and get a voice at Apple for some help.
The iPod Classic was a joy for about two years - and now - has become an aggravation.

Here I am submitting possible causes and solutions for my own problem. Possible root cause of skipping may be the use of a headset cable having a TRRS connector male plug having 4 conductor rings and 3 insulator rings. My problem started when I began to use an AKG Q460 headset which has this connector. Same TRRS plug may be found on iPhone headset or many other headsets having an active switch control in the cable. I think this headset plug may have caused corruption of digital song data when I actuated skip to next or previous song or possibly even when I increased or decreased the volume which is an incrementing pulse control signal. I went back to the headset cable having the same TRS connector as found on the Apple original headset and on my Sennheiser headset and there is even a short TRS cable that comes with the AKG headset. The problem seems to have gone away. No new skipping songs have occurred since using the TRS connector. You can learn more by searching on TRS connector on Wikipedia.
Fixing the corrupted songs was accomplished as follows: 1) MARK the corrupted song as a one star rating on the iPod. 2) Synch the iPod and then when synch is complete, DELETE the marked songs into the trash. 3) Synch the iPod again to remove the corrupted songs from the iPod. 4) Drag the songs out of the trash to the desktop. Then drag the songs back into iTunes. Remove the one star rating. 5) Synch the iPod once again to restore the uncorrupted songs. Fortunately, the iTunes version of the song does not get corrupted when synching the iPod. So far, this has worked fine. I even had one corrupted music video which was repaired with this method. Comments are welcome, especially regarding the TRS vs TRRS connector theory.

IPhone doesn't display song lyrics

Since last iOS update (4.3.3) my iPhone doesn't display song lyrics anymore. That is, it displays only when I switch back to the album cover view and back to the lyrics view. When the next song starts, again only album cover art remains visible with the scrolling bar at the top, but lyrics is missing. Tap once to remove scrolling bar at the top, tap again and both scrolling bar and lyrics appear. And so for almost all tracks. Last iOS update to 4.3.4 didn't change anything here. Any ideas?

when ? - maybe with next firmware upgrade? - I don't perceive this as a hardwared issue, but a firmware update issue? would you agree?

HT5858 i have an iPhone 4s, when I tried to use control center to skip songs ( or signs) or when my phone is locked, i double press the home screen, i also can't skip songs. what's going on?

i have an iPhone 4s, when I tried to use control center to skip songs (>> or << signs) or when my phone is locked, i double press the home screen, i also can't skip songs. what's going on? please help me. i know the skip is being pressed because the sign lit up, but the song didn't skip. please help. thank you.

I am having the same problem with my Iphone 4. After update the phone will not control audio from the control center (Friend with Iphone 4S is having same issue). Tried to reset phone and it started working "once". Next time I tried to use the control center it didn't work again. Their needs to be some kind of a fix for this?

Classic 20gb Ipod - Skipping songs

Recently, my 20 GB iPod classic has started skipping songs randomly. For example, when I try to play a playlist or album, it will skip through the songs one by one until the playlist/album is completed, without actually playing any of the songs. Has anyone had a similar problem and had success in fixing this? Or is my iPod shot and it is time to get a new one? Thanks in advance.

The songs on the ipod are damaged. Tyr restoring it with the latest ipod updater, more on restoring can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983

While playing music on my iphone 5, i am now unable to play, pause, or skip songs while my phone is locked. I can still change the volume and slide the scrub through songs. This has always worked for me until now. I have not changed any settings

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I skimmed through this very long post but from what I read, this sounds much more like a coverage issue with your network than a device issue. I have not seen or heard of this issue before and I do not have this issue personnally and & I use the music app quite frequently while working in the yard.
The DND feature should not be a factor at all if you're sure it's turned off. I always recommend restarting your phone by holding down the home button + the lock button for 10-12 seconds until the Apple logo appears. Once the phone reboots, do a test to see if this has helped to resolve the issue.
If not, go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. Then, test it out again. Post back if neither of these solutions solve your issue.

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