Bizarre problem when skipping songs

Hi everyone,
first of all I apologize for my probably poor Engilsh, I'm Italian.
I own an old I-Pod classic 30Gb (firmware 1.2.1).
It has always worked fine until some days ago.
It started behaving in the way I'm going to describe.
I always listen to my 15Gb of music in shuffle mode, often at the start or in the middle of a song I decide to skip to the next one, because I'm not in the mood to listen it or whatever.
In these few years, when the song I skipped before shows up again in the shuffle mode, it has always started back from the beginning.
Now, instead, the skipped songs always start from the point in which I decide to skip them.
I know, I'm not very clear. I'll try to be clearer with an example.
- I listen to "Song number 1"
- at 0:48 I decide to skip "Song number 1"
- I shut off the I-Pod
- I reset and restart the shuffle mode
- "Song number 1" appears when it's its time and start from second 0:48 instead than from the beginning 0:00
The thing that amazes me is that it started doing that no more than a month ago.
Can you please help me shed some light on this issue? It is very annoing to have all these songs starting from a point in the middle or towards the end.
Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
Best regards
Message was edited by: Marqo

Hello Marqo,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
I am not entirely sure on this one, but I have a feeling, the "remember playback position" option may be ticked for your music files within iTunes. To change this, locate each file, right->click (control->click on a Mac) on it and choose "Get Info" from the Shortcut Menu. When the window pops up, head over to the Options tab. Make sure there is NO check mark next "Remember playback position." Then hit OK when you are finished. Then sync the updated changes to your iPod.
Again, I don't know if this is really the issue, or I am forgetting some other option that may be causing this, but at least it's a good place to start.
Hope it helps.
B-rock

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