Certain Songs Stop??

I have a brand new iPod Nano 8GB and have loaded full with just music. I notice that some of the songs stop part way through and then the Nano jumps to the next song. It seems to do it at the same spot for each song which is usually between 38 and 45 secs. I can fast forward past this spot and the song will play to the end. It appears to be just songs that I converted to mp3 from audio recordings, though the vast majority play fine. Have tried the 5 rs and sent it back but the replacement Nano does the same thing. The dodgy songs play fine on iTunes. Please help, confused of Devon, UK

Have you had a chance to look at these troubleshooting pages? They may be of some help:
Troubleshooting songs that skip on iPod
iPod: Troubleshooting songs and audiobooks that won't play

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