160gb iPod Classic will pause for 3-5 seconds during playback

Hello. I heard from a few people that they are having similar issues to this. Whenever I listen to my ipod for more than 20-25 mins, it will stop playing during a song for about 3-5 seconds, then it will resume playback. I've tried power cycling it, restoring it, the whole 9 yards, but nothing works.
I am considering bringing it back to the apple store now. I remember back in the good old days before the iphone came out and there were barely any people buying apple products that their customer service was spectacular. Now I heard they are pretty anal about replacements. I know that they like to see the error occurring before they can do anything about it as far as a replacement goes.
Does anyone have similar issues with their ipods? Anyone get a replacement from Apple? I will greatly appreciate the help guys. Thanks again.

I have a similar issue; mine only happens every so often, but has occurred even when i'm not touching the ipod.
Mine, however, will stop playing for 3-5 seconds just like yours, but if I touch the iPod, it will resume playback. This makes me think that it's connection error, but the thing doesn't pause - the play icon at the upper-RH corner of the screen is still there.
I thought it might be software related until I touched it and it resumed playback. I also ran the battery down/restored it, but it did it once again.
I bought the AppleCare plan for it, so I'll just have to take it down to the local Apple store and see if they can do anything about it.
Does anybody think this could be anything other than a hardware issue?

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Well I finally figured out the problem, not thanks to anyone from Apple for that matter. You would asume this problem has happened before and is still happening. The problem was I couldn't copy certain songs anymore from iTunes to my iPod Classic. When trying to copy certain songs I got an error.
If you have this problem it means your song file is corrupted. You can simply check this by trying to copy it from your hard drive to an external hard drive. Here you will also get an error message.
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The S.I. prefix Giga is used to mean both 1000x1000x1000 and 1024x1024x1024. Computer software typically uses the second version, but using the first number makes the same number of bytes appear bigger when expressed as Gb, so is favoured by hard drive manufactures.
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It's a bit like specifying a quantity in gallons without saying whether they are US or Imperial gallons - everybody gets the same volume but one number will be bigger than the other. I could offer you a tank with 10 Imperial gallons of fuel in it - but if I tell you it's 12 US gallons it sounds like you're getting more for your money.
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I should mention, it was on low power as I was using it.

My iPod classic will pause itself automatically and I have to keep pressing play.

It started about two weeks ago and it's so frequent I can't listen to music now.

Are the headphones plugged all the way in meaning the white part of your headset (or whatever color they may be) is flush with the body of the iPod? The iPod has an autopause feature that kicks in whenever it no longer detects the headphones.
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While I'm an enthusiastic supporter of Apple (using Windows occasionally does that) I feel that I have to investigate in more detail before purchasing than I did in the past. (iMovie 08.)
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Well, the camera connector is NOT working. Belkin TunesTalk Stereo microphone is NOT working, too. Griffin iTrip IS working. So, my opinion is, Apple would have made changes in the classic connection which makes 2/3 of my connectors worthless. I'm disappointed about that, especially that they didn't care about the use of their own cam.-connector.
Take your car, try to get a parking spot near your local dealer and find out. Of course, Apple's not responsible for other producer's products - but who handed out the specs of the connector? And who is giving up them?

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That link seems to be broken. It does normally lead to a solution. For the time being go to
http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod+classic+disk+mode
Let your mouse hover over the link until you see the option appear on the right to view the cached version Google contains:
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My 160GB ipod classic stopped whilst playing music and will not turn back on despite having almost a full battery. I have tried connecting to itunes and a docking station but will not turn on at all - HELP?!
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
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hi PT the devil advocate,
The first reason why I'm suggesting this is because of the first question ask in this post;
sphericalcamel wrote:
I updated iTunes to whatever is current through software update, but when I tried to run it I was informed that it needed 10.4.9 to run (and for some reason software update didn't pick up that requirement).
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Mono Audio. Had it on my iPod touch, loved the feature in certain situations where stereo listening didn't work. Is this a software feature, or does it require capable hardware? A firmware update with mono audio option on the iPod Classic would rock.
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Hello bane007,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Does that one work with the 160gb ipod classic?
Yes. It will work just fine.
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You can find the full article here:
iTunes: May be unable to transfer videos to iPhone, iPad, or iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1497
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Hello,
So I have a 160gb ipod classic. I dropped it a few weeks ago by accident and now the screen does not work. No backlight, no lightup, no nothing. It will sync up to my PC just fine and if I plug headphones in and navigate to a song by memory it will play. I hoped it was just an issue with the connector coming loose inside the ipod. So i took it all apart since I got it in like 2010 and was out of warrenty. Unfortunatly, to my dismay, the issue was not the connection to the logic board. After doing a little more research I took it apart even more to see if there was a tear in the lcd connecter anywhrere, there wasn't. So I put it all back together and I was still getting the same issue. Great. My next thought was to get a new lcd. I had an ipod classic 80gb in like 2007 with a broken hard drive so I did some research and found they were the exact same lcd. So instead of buying a new lcd, I just took it out of that one and replaced it in the 160gb ipod. It worked!! well... sort of. I still get nothing on the display screen, but now, when I touch the clickwheel, the backlight lights up. Again, I can select songs from memory and it syncs up fine, but I cannot see anything on the screen. So thats a start, isnt it? I'm not sure. I tried to restore it in iTunes but kept getting an "unknown error 1514." Did some reserch on that and wasnt very helpful.
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I am seriously considering ditching hard drive based media players, as the second they get dropped its all over. But I love being able to carry around all 100+ gigs of music and 30+ gigs of movies with me in one small device. if they made a 128 gig flah memory itouch id be all over it...

Hi, Meg.
I've contacted Apple as you suggested and they have already taken care of the problem.
Thank you for your help and reply.

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[iDemiGods|http://www.idemigods.com>
[RapidRepair|http://www.rapidrepair.com>
[iResq|http://www.iresq.com>
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Hope this helps.
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