Ipod classic is "shorting" out?

Recently, I've been playing my Ipod through various outlets (headphones, travel speakers, car connection) and having a crash. After 5 or 6 songs play, it just stops playing sound. Everything else works perfectly but there is no sound. Occasionally, I hear a crackling or the song picks up for a milisecond but then dies out again. I have tried the trouble shooting on this page and nothing seems to work.
Anyone experience this? Am I screwed and have to bring it into an Apple store for repair? I bought the unit at Tweeter and they are out of the Ipod sales game. Best Buy won't even touch it unless I bought it from them. And the nearest Apple store is not so near.

I've actually just started having the same problem with my 30G iPod. It started where songs would be playing but no sound would be coming out in my Belkin car attachment, so I bought a new one and it worked fine, but then today started doing it again on the new one, and now no music is coming out of my headphones either. I can still here the clicker and I hear the background static in the headphones but that's it.

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I have no idea if/when they will do this. This is the answer everyone in these forums is waiting for. So far apple hasn't made any statements about the issue, which is very frustrating. Some people have given up and returned their classics, others are waiting, hoping for a firmware update to fix it, others are just buying the required cable/dock. Personally I'm waiting for an official statement. If they say that they will never fix it because it's designed as is, I will buy the apple universal dock, sell my keyspan dock, and probably never again purchase an iPod. I'm also waiting for similar word on Apple's Camera Connector accessory which also is not supported by the classic.

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Maybe leave Apple your feedback on this:
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Hi all,
I've been searching the web for quite some time now and the problem I have has gotten me fairly fustrated. I have searched the apple site, forums and support as well as other ipod-related sites, to no avail.
This is my problem.
After a fair amount of researching (more than I ought should be necessary) I found the right cable for my ipod's TV out fucntion.
After having purchased my cable (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB129LL/B) several initial problems arose.
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Thanks in advance,
Kind regards,
John
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Yes, I bought the dock so I could hook it up to my tv. Then I had to buy the cable, I didn't get the cable from Apple. at the time the cable was $50, I went to ebay & found the same cable for about $20. Just like you, I could not find an answer about why the dumb thing wouldn't work, so I just had do my own experiments. Good luck getting Apple to do anything. They don't seem to want to give anything away or replace merchandise.
Take care!!
H

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Yes, I bought the dock so I could hook it up to my tv. Then I had to buy the cable, I didn't get the cable from Apple. at the time the cable was $50, I went to ebay & found the same cable for about $20. Just like you, I could not find an answer about why the dumb thing wouldn't work, so I just had do my own experiments. Good luck getting Apple to do anything. They don't seem to want to give anything away or replace merchandise.
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H

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Second time this has happened to an ipod classic that i bought (the last one I bought 14 months ago and it is out of apples warranty.) Battery won't hold a charge or even register when pluged into anything (wall charger, USB, mac book, etc.)
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice? Shame on me for giving my $ to apple. THEY ARE A FAD COMPANY WHOSE PRODUCTS ARE PART OF A CULTURAL FAD---nothing real is in there (well SOMETHING was real and working for 14months.)

I feel your angst, especially, knowing that Apple has become the most profitable company in the world, by selling us products that breaks down when the warranty run out, and crap service staff, who doesn't know anything about the iPod Classic, except offer to sell us refurbished iPod classic.
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> I was reading an artical and found out that the Mac OS X Tiger already has many of the things that the new windows vista has.
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HT1382 I have an ipod classic and have used it with iTunes on windows XP. recently upgraded to win7 and the latest iTunes and I cannot find away to backup or synch my files to a PC?

When I go to see devices in iTunes 11.1.xxx its grayed out. However when I connect it to a PC with Win7 it says its synching but cant find anything. Help if you can

Hey there oochow69,
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iPod classic Troubleshooting Assistant
https://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the best,
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