Abrupt ending of music from Ipod Shuffle

I have had a continuous problem with my shuffle. When either set to random or play straight through, it will almost start playing a particular song then it will lock up or just make a scratch noise like a record player would when the area couldn't played.
I can either change it from random to play straight through or vice versa, and then it will work.
I have tried deleting all the songs, and copying the songs back, but it continues to happen.
Partly as a suggestion, I think the Ipod Shuffle should better keep track of what it is playing and what it can't so that when connected back to the PC, it report that it was unable to play a song to the end.
Also, it should skip over songs it can't play and just move on to the next song, or just start over.
This might be the same problem others have reported... not sure..

I have your problem too - 45gb of music and much smaller iPods (Mini, shuffle, now iPhone). Right now the iPhone has 3gb of music on it, which is 2.1 days of continuous audio. I've had to become accustomed to using smart playlists and being a bit planful with my syncing process. Not all that demanding once you make the break from "needing" to have everything with you always. Besides, do you really need all that holiday music along in July?
In order to get all 20gb of your music into the iPhone, you'll have to seriously downsample the quality. iTunes will do it for you if you really want, but I don't think you'll like the results. You'll have to go into the "Advanced" tab in preferences and change the default encoding settings from 128kbps to something like 40 or 48, close out of preferences. Then select your entire library, click on the Advanced Menu and select "convert selection to AAC" (or MP3 if you're re-ripping to that format). Then go take a walk, get some coffee, etc - ripping 20GB of music will take a while.
I'm not suggesting you do this, but it's one way to compress your entire music library (exception of tracks purchased through iTunes) into the space of the iPhone.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2018
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1209
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1209
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For all other non purchased music (your own CDs etc) try this method which works on some Windows PCs.
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See: iPod Disk Use.
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Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
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Enable your iPod for disk use.
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