In shuffle mode, cant go to menu

I have a click wheel ipod, not the video one though. I just purchased it about 4 days ago. And, last night, I was listening to it in shuffle mode, and decided I wanted to listen to a certain artist.. I turned off "hold" and hit "menu". Nothing happened, I hit it again, same thing, and kept trying... no response. I couldnt get to the menu.
I thought, "wonder if the light will work", so I held down "menu" and sure enough, the light turned on. Wierd. So, I turned the "hold" on and off several times to see if I could go to menu, and still nothing happened. So, right now, I have my 20GB Ipod stuck in shuffle mode and cant access the menu.
Granted, this IS a refurbished Ipod. Can anyone help? or will I have to return it?

Ah, thanks Bryan... well, I can probably get acess to USB then if the mini USB is the same. I'd rather reset it when I can put music on it :P, instead of doing it and not being able to listen to anything at all...
And if resetting does it work, pretty much S.O.L, right?

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There's probably no help for your switch problem. It could be somre foreign object, of course, and you could try blasts of compressed air or suction, but don't expect much from that. The switch might simply have worn out.
As for the other problem, stop turning it off. Just Pause it when you're done; it goes into a powersaver mode pretty quickly after that and uses very little (essentially none, for all practical purposes) battery power while in that. You'll have to press Play once to wake it up, then again to make it play again, but it will pick up where you left off — all else being equal.

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When playing in shuffle mode you can't hear tracks in line together while they should be, e.g. in conceptalbums.
Is there a way to overcome this?
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Joepiet wrote:
The second tab is calles 'Info' as well. Down under you have the possibilty to mark Part of a collection (Deel van verzameling). It should do the trick but it doesn't. I once tried, but I haven't found out what it does.
In English, that is named as "Part of a compilation" and Google Translates that as "Deel van een compilatie". As far as iTunes is concerned, this means that the album has songs by different artists, albums such as the "Now X" series. It is how iTunes keeps a Various Artists album together.
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I want to shuffle works, not tracks..
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Create a Playlist for each "work", by simply adding all the songs from one work to one Playlist and all songs from the next work to another Playlist and so on. Then, if you want to play one complete work, followed by another complete work, you could simply create a further Playlist and add each "work Playlist" you want to this new Playlist. To make the works random, all you could do is choose for yourself as you are adding them. You would need to play this new Playlist in order, not shuffle.
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In the screenshot above, I have selected tracks one, two and three and then used the options menu to find Join CD Tracks. This third option will not be visible until you select two or more adjacent tracks, as shown above.
In the screenshot below, I have joined tracks one, two and three as one "work". Then joined tracks four, five and six as a separate work. Finally, I've joined tracks seven through twelve as a third work.
Notice in the screenshot that the Options menu says "Unjoin CD Tracks". That is because the highlighted ones (7-12) are currently joined.
And here it is in Dutch:
With this second method, a work (of several tracks) will always be played as one track (or song). You can then simply add all the individual works to one Playlist, and play the Playlist in Shuffle Songs mode. That way, each work would be played in full, followed, at random, by another work.)
And if you really need to - import the CD this second time with a slightly different album name, so that you then have two copies. One, where each song (or track) is the individual song on the album and the second where each "song" is a work.
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i primarily use my ipod as a car stereo in shuffle mode. is there any setting or application that i can put on that will allow me to jump straight to the current song that is playing when i press menu rather than the song i first selected?
for example a song by a certain artist comes up on random but i want to hear a song that i know is nearby in the list and i dont want to have to scroll through thousands of songs to get there.
cheers

I am confused by your post. By skipping songs, do you mean that the playlist ends without those songs playing at all? Or are you saying that all of the songs do eventually play but they are skipped and played in a 'random' order? That, by definition is shuffling, hence my confusion.
I don't mean to be flippant. Just seeking clarification.

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To go back to the main menu quickly, you can hold down "Menu" for a couple of seconds, and then go right to settings.
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I have been successfully using iTunes and have been using it on 3 mac machines so far but have recently had a problem I cannot solve when loading a disc in, or from the library.
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And welcome to Apple Discussions!
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