Great News! New iPod shuffle software!

This update (as I have confirmed) fixes the infamous non-playable iTunes Music Service song problem that causes the shuffle to free or hang before playing a certain purchased song. Also, be sure to check out your iPod options because this update also adds the much desirable SOUND CHECK function to the shuffle's repertoire!
Mac users use Software Update (there's also a new Security Update for Tiger users).
Windows users head to the iPod website to download.
Enjoy!

Okay, on my 512MB iPod shuffle it does appear that the problem with non-playable iTunes Music Store songs has been resolved. It's fixed, finally. I had five songs that I'd purchased out of approximately 500 that would cause my iPod shuffle to lock-up, they all work now. However, there is a side effect or continued problem, you can't restart these songs once they have been paused, the player just skips to the next song in the list. So, either Apple didn't test for that little problem, or it's an unavoidable side effect to how they fixed the much more serious lock-up bug. I suspect it may be the latter.
Also, Ben, I can't find any addition for the sound check function for the shuffle. It appears in the iTunes Audio preference (as always), but under iPod it just show the following five options:
Open iTunes when this iPod is attached
Keep this iPod in the source list
Only update checked songs
Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC for this iPod
Enable disk use (and the More Songs...More Data slider)
Also, I don't hear any improvement in the control of the volume levels on my shuffle, even though I have sound check enabled in the Audio preferences for iTunes.
So, it appears that you may have been incorrect about the addition of sound check or only certain iPod shuffles support that new feature. I purchased my shuffle fairly early, about one month after they were first introduced.

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