Full album skips on iPod

Question

Having a strange problem with my iPod - two albums just skip, without playing, though they appear on the iPod / with correct cover-art, as applied by me.
I had the old 60GB Photo iPod, which didn't give me too many issues. Just got the 80GB Classic last week, & it's been a ton of trouble since.
Few years ago (when I got my 60GB), I ripped a lot of my CD's (using EAC/LAME-192)& put them on the Pod, & then made a DVD of the mp3's so I can easily use them again next time. The albums all worked perfectly.
Got the new 80GB, & transferred (from DVD/HDD) most of my albums to the new iPod. For some strange reason, Dark Side of the Moon, & Wish You Were Here (2 albums I personally ripped), appear on the 80GB, along with the artwork, but if I choose any song (or even the full album), the iPod just skips through. Doesn't even play 1 second of the track/album. Just skips the full thing.
I connected the iPod to the computer, & through iTunes I was able to play the songs. This is really strange, because the mp3's also play on the old 60GB. I put the same files on both iPods, but it refuses to work on the new one. I even erased it & tried putting it again. No change. I plugged in the old 60, used PodLift to get those two albums out, & put them in the 80GB... still no luck.
Any suggestions? I don't know what to do about this, & the worst thing is, I was lucky to check those two albums, so I knew they didn't work. I already added around 4000-5000 songs on the new iPod & am now worried that others also might not play at all!
Please help!
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Ok, now that you've explained your process, it seems alright. Nothing wrong there.
JediKnut wrote:
Another problem I notice sometimes is also that sometimes I will add an album (ripped by EAC/LAME), but it doesn't get added to iTunes.
This happens when itunes encounters a file not compatible with it. Even if the file says it MP3, there's something about it that itunes finds unplayable, usually in the encoding process, sometimes in the ID3 Tags.
It's unfortunate that iTunes ripping quality isn't up to the mark like EAC, otherwise I wouldn't have trouble at all...
This is how I understand it, itunes' AAC encoder is equal to LAME's MP3 encoder. Itunes' MP3 encoder is inferior to that of LAME's. If you're encoding in AAC anyways, might as well use itunes.
Besides that, what's worse is both my albums which are giving trouble are Gold CD's, & I'm not too keen on the idea of putting them in a CD/DVD Drive. Just too scared of scratches
Hmmm...I don't know anything about Gold CDs, and wiki isn't that enlightening. Are they like regular CDs in that, the files are encrypted/encoded as WAV files? It might be due to the source (Gold CDs) that the ipod is having trouble with even if itunes accepts it. The Classics are really particular as to format compatibility and health of the file structure itself than older ipods. A tiny error which older ipods find acceptable becomes unplayable in the Classics. Case in point, I have one song in the Classic that skips mid-song but when the same song is played in my old 4th Gen, there was a squeak, right where the Classic skips, but continues playing.
Try the steps I've outlined above (except the re-ripping part), if none of them work however, I think you're only choice is to re-rip. In itunes (not EAC/LAME) no less.
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