IPod Classic Issues

I have the 160GB iPod classic, when listening to music it freezes or will skip songs.. Or play only a limited amount of the song before changing to another.. What can I do?

Have you worked through all of the troubleshooting here?
Troubleshooting songs that skip
Does it happen with only certain tracks in particular or just any track at random? What format are these tracks in and at what bitrate are they encoded?
B-rock

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Multiple 160 GB iPod Classic issues

Last August, I purchased a 160GB iPod Classic. For the first several months, it worked just fine. I hooked it up with the audio cable and it would play in my Hyundai Tucson. One day in the Spring, the volume stopped working in the vehicle. I tried other cables and reset the device several times. It started to work again. About a week later, nothing. It wouldn't even have sound when hooked up to headphones.
I took it the Apple store and we tried it out in a vehicle of one of the associates, it worked. Took it home, down again. Had it replaced. Tried it all different wasy, bought a new audio cable for the car, headphones, etc. NOTHING. Had it replaced last Saturday for the second time. Used it everywhere but the car and it worked. Yesterday, I put headphones on and it crash. (Did not try in car yet).
My questions are these: I have a 30GB Classic that has the same library on it. Could there be something wrong with the library? Corrupt? Could the vehicle need a certain something installed? My dealership knows nothing. I've searched online forums for the issue (thinking maybe it was the car). But this one didn't even go in the car and it crashed after a full charged and library sync.
In case it matters, I have a MacBook Pro 13inch using the most updated iTunes and software.
If anyone can help-Thank you!

Also, I am using my older 30GB iPod classic and it works fine with all outlets, headphones, vehicle, etc.

Ical and IPOD classic issue.

I put together my work schedule on iCal. I work nights.
I synced my work calendar to the ipod classic (80gb).
But....
The calendar on the Ipod is inaccurate. For example. if I added an iCal entry for Thursday night as a work night from 11pm to 7am but Friday night is an off night, the iPod calendar would read that on Thursday, I am scheduled for work from 11pm to 7am, BUT...it would also read that Friday night, I am scheduled for work from 11pm to 7am too. Obviously, this is wrong.
I'm looking for some help on this issue.
Thanks

So I just tried this in order to see if I could help.
Exported a calendar as an .ics file, created a new "test" calendar in Google, then imported my .ics file into the new calendar.
The message I received was:
"Reviewed 89 events; imported 18 events; Unable to process your iCal/CSV file."
Looking at the new Google calendar, I noticed that any RECURRING events were not imported. However, all of the all-day and or timed events that were single occurrences imported perfectly.
Are both of you experiencing similar behavior or is NOTHING getting imported?

IPod classic issues with iTunes 9 just may be disk problems in ipod

I have done extensive testing for several days now on this iTunes 9 issue with iPod Classics. I used 3 different computers, 1 Macbook Pro, Windows 7 and XP with iTunes 8. I had 2 - ipod classic 80GB and 2 - ipod 5th Generation 30GB units people gave me to look at.
It would take too much typing to describe all the restores, syncs, formats, copies I did over the past few days.
Bottom line: Using PC utilities I began to believe the iPod hard drives had bad sectors. I trusted the disk testing because I got different results from different ipods. The problems I experienced and what I have read here are consistent with what you would expect from disk problems and S.M.A.R.T. technology on the drives.
If bad sectors on a drive are dealt with by S.M.A.R.T. I would expect delays in accessing those sectors to occur.. resulting in delays to restore, delays to sync, delays to even skip songs on the ipod itself.
What may be the case is switching to iTunes 9, discovers when it trys to use the bad sectors. Maybe iTunes 9 is more timing temperamental. I have iPods that pass all disk tests that work fine with iTunes 9 on mac and PC. The other 2 ipods reporting bad sectors on a disk test, can restore, but syncing 3000+ songs is nearly impossible. Sync delays were consistent with where I would expect bad sectors to exist in the process. Delays I noticed just copying a folder to the ipod in disk mode were consistent with the delays that occur syncing in iTunes.

It is a possibility...
I will state though that in my opinion the main problem is that itunes 9 is far less fault tolerant than prior versions and is far more likely to preemptively send an ipod into recovery mode when running into a problem when a ipod is plugged in.
I'd had a couple of incidents in prior versions of itunes when it flashed an alert message that it was having trouble accessing the ipod. Usually unplugging and reconnecting the ipod resolved the issue. Unfortunately this system of handling the issue does not work at all with itunes 9. What happens is that the next time you plug in the ipod it is preemptively sent into recovery mode.
I've had my ipod sent into recovery mode 7-8 times since I Installed Itunes 9. The last 5 of those in the last week. I've already done the reinstall itunes 9 from scratch and I still had to do a recovery of the ipod last night. Today I bought a new interface cable on the theory that my old cable might be defective. I've been able to plug it in tonight without itunes complaining about being unable to access the ipod

TS4062 ipod classic issues when trying to sync with itunes

i have an ipod classic which has always worked great when getting music from itunes, but i bought a new computer and now i can't get it to sync. i also have an ipod touch which works fine. i need help figuring out how to sync with my new computer and the classis. any suggestions?

Update:
Any new news on this issue from anyone else?
I left my iPod plugged into my PowerBook over night and when I woke it was functional. However, downloads from iTunes to the iPod take almost 3x's longer than they used to and there seems to be more errors than I've ever experienced (about 1 out of every 10 interfaces). Sometimes the error is that it can't write to the drive (iPod) and sometimes the error is that it can't mount the iPod. Also when the iPod is plugged in and displayed in iTunes, the "used" and "free" info is incorrect. I completely emptied my iPod and it says that I'm using -2.80 GB (impossible unless I've created a blackhole) and it says that I have 10.49 GB (capacity, under Get Info, is listed at 9.28 - which is were it's always been - it's a gen2 10GB iPod).
Has anyone tried to format there iPod? Is this possible without harming the drive?
Well, to sum it up my iPod is working but is having errors and bugs all over the place. If anyone has any new news I'd love to hear it.
SPECS: iPod 10GB gen2, running 1.5(?), iTunes 6.0.4, PowerBook G4 800, OS 10.4.5
Thanks

Used Ipod Classic issue...

Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone could help me out here...
I purchased a used Ipod classic yesterday from a pawn shop (first time I have ever done this).
Ipod seems to be working fine when listening to headphones with the music(as undesireable as it may be) already on there.
Now, when I try to connect to my pc and try to add/delete music to it I keep getting an error that reads "Attempting to copy to the disk -69 error occurred".
There is plenty of space available (13.3GB) on the ipod, I have I tunes set to manage music manually(not syncing)
I purchased this ipod for my teenage daughter as a quick fix because her other ipod is full and she does not want to delete any music off of it because she says she listens to all of it.
i would appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks.

prov wrote:
I wasn't ever concerned about physical harm to myself, but I can assure you I did indeed FEEL the shocks. They were jarring and too substantive to continue working out under the conditions. I was also concerned about short-circuiting the iPod, but it sounds like that shouldn't be an issue, correct?
Ears are sensitive... you're really going to feel AND hear a static shock!
Electronic components are very sensitive to static charges and I can't speak to Apple's design. But, +in my opinion+, a static charge would pass through the protective shielding of the metal case back and not harm the electronics inside.
prov wrote:
Regarding "rubbing the device on your polyester shirt while exercising & listening to music" the device rested in a cubby near the control panel of the treadmill. I'm far from an expert in the realm of static electricity, but I have to assume the entire treadmill builds a charge while in motion. I just didn't expect the charge to be released into my ears!
Yes. The sliding rubber belt of the treadmill is the source of the build-up of charge in your body. The iPod is resting elsewhere putting it at a different "potential" than your body. The *difference in potential* (a.k.a. voltage) meets inside your ear between your skin and the earbud whenever the charge builds up to a level great enough to break-down the resistance of the air gap.
prov wrote:
Again, I'll play around with some variables and hopefully build this thread into something worthwhile for anyone else experiencing similar problems.
Try wearing, or better yet, holding your iPod... it should keep it at an equal potential to your body thereby eliminating the discharge through your ears.
NOTES: Voltage is also referred to as "Potential Difference"

Ipod classic issues syncing

When I connect the iPod I receive an error:
Attempting to copy to the disk "name of iPod" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to.
and in another window:
iTunes could not copy "name of song" to the iPod because the file could not be read or written.
I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1 and my iPod is a click wheel 40 GB
I have done the following:
1. I have the most current iTunes software installed
2. Restored the iPod - to erase all content
3. Tried connecting and syncing iPod after a reboot of MacBook Pro
4. Tried different combinations of opening iTunes and connecting iPod (ex. connect before opening iTunes, connecting then letting the system open iTunes, etc)
5. Tried a different USB port when connecting iPod
6. Changed the manual sync properties in iTunes to limit down the number or songs being synced to 4 and I did have success with a couple songs transferring but the same error comes up "could not copy song" after the couple of songs
7. Checked integrity of each of the songs that are listed in the error - these have been different depending on the connection, reboot, etc. and all of them played just fine in iTunes
8. The iPod continually displays the "do not disconnect" message and most often there is no content syncing
9. The iPod does show up in iTunes and I can see the Summary and other tabs
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric

My Classic 160GB starting doing the eject thing today the worst part was iTunes wasn't able to do anything because it kept ejecting,I have managed to stop the ejecting temporarily,by switching the iPod over to Disk Mode then connecting it,iTunes detected it fine and I'm in the middle of a very Large Sync (still in Disk Mode)Syncing 5200 320kbs songs)so I am not sure what will happen once the sync is complete,but at least now I can connect and restore if necessary.incidentally iTunes gave me an error stating that Syncing is not possible because a needed folder could not be found.I exited the error msg and that's when the incessant ejecting started.hopefully this will help apple or anyone else fix the issue.
I Finished the Sync,ejected the Ipod and switched it back to normal mode and plugged it back in.iTunes found it and everything seems to be working fine again for me.
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ITunes and iPod Classic issues

I have a 120gb classic iPod. About a week ago, I got the red x. So I restored my it. Then anytime my iPod was plugged in, iTunes froze until I unplugged my ipod and then it went back to normal. I've read forum after forum and here's what I've done.
- Reformatted and restored my iPod
- Run diagnostic tests (All normal)
- Uninstalling and reinstalling itunes
- basically everything these forums say.
Now! My iTunes will work with my iPod plugged in. And I can even sync some songs. For instance, I synced about 400, used my ipod for a few days (working fine) but when I went to plug it in today, it reset everything and removed all the music I had put on there. I can sync some songs (it's never a finite amount)
and then itunes freaks out and gives me an error code (never the same one). This is ridiculous. I have the latest version of iTunes (10) so I'm not sure what's going on. Also my iPod just ran out of warranty maybe a week ago. Can anyone help me?! I don't know what else to do!

*Check your iPod with Diagnostics Mode*
It's possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button |<< on the left and hold this down together with SELECT for a further 6 seconds. Your iPod should now switch into Diagnostic Boot mode. Press MENU for *Manual Test*, then select *IO > HardDrive > HDSMARTData* to reveal your stats. For comparison here are mine for my 2 year old 6th Generation Classic:
Retracts: 889
Reallocs: 12
Pending Sectors: 0
PowerOn Hours: 2202
Start/Stops: 894
Temp: Current 24c
Temp: Min 10c
Temp: Max 50c
Take a note of your results. When finished press *SELECT & MENU* for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again.
With modern disc drives sectors are no longer marked bad by a disc scan, if the SMART firmware detects a sector it has trouble accessing it will attempt to invisibly reallocate it to a spare area of the disc.
Note that I've only 12 remapped sectors and none pending. To help explain what the numbers mean here is an extract from the Wikipedia S.M.A.R.T. article:
*Reallocated Sectors Count*
Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate.
*Pending sector count*
Number of "unstable" sectors (waiting to be remapped, because of read errors). If an unstable sector is subsequently written or read successfully, this value is decreased and the sector is not remapped. Read errors on a sector will not remap the sector (since it might be readable later); instead, the drive firmware remembers that the sector needs to be remapped, and remaps it the next time it's written.
Large numbers of Reallocs or Pending Sectors would suggest your drive is failing and that you may need to repair or replace your iPod. Check your stats after another attempt to update your iPod. If the numbers increase that again points to hard drive failure. While it won't be good news at least you'll know it isn't some random software problem and you can decide what to do next.
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ITunes 7.7, Windows Vista, 80GB iPod classic issues...

Since installing iTunes 7.7, I have been unable to anything with it. When I connect my iPod, it freezes iTunes, and subsequently the rest of my system.
At one point, iTunes recognised my iPod, but told me that I had to reset it to factory settings. When I did, everything was fine until I ejected. When I reconnected, I went through the same thing.
This was after an hour or so of iTunes telling me that it could not recognise my iPod.
I should mentioned that I uninstalled, and reinstalled iTunes numerous times. Attempted to revert back to 7.6 to no avail. Then reverted my hard drive back a few days.
My iPod has likewise, been restored at least three times, since it has not shown up with anything on any other computer, since 7.7 was installed.
I get the feeling that I am not the only person with this problem, however is there a way to resolve it?
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Having the same exact trouble.

Newest version of universal dock appears to be incompatible with my ipod Classic 120 gb. Remote does nothing

I purchased from Apple, a new universal dock with remote (MC746LL/A) along with the proper dock adapter for my ipod Classic 120. According to Apple the dock works with any ipod with a dock and adapter.. The remote does absolutely nothing despite a brand new battery. The only reason I purchased this pricey accessory was to have an additional ipod station with a remote. I could have saved a ton of money if I didn't care about a sensor on front of the unit. Any thoughts.

You are in exactly the same boat as I. I have the same problem. I posted a query on this forum too but no help came forth. Looks like Apple could be blocking replies to iPod Classic issues since it withdrew the product. Amazing company. But incase anyone can still access this query, please help. It will help two customers of Apple if not more.
Awaiting help !!

Why is my iPod classic only playing 10 seconds of a song?

Suddenly all of my songs on my iPod are only plaimg 10-20 seconds of a song. Some dont evenplay at all. They are playing corretly on iTunes. How do I fix this???

Hello DustinLATATC,
To help resolve your iPod Classic issue, take a look at the following webpage for a series of troubleshooting steps.
iPod classic Troubleshooting Assistant
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

Continual Ipod classic problems

I would like to say first that I have been very patient waiting for an update to supposedly fix the problems of not being able to use mt ipod classic 160 I have owned for about a month and a half and it has been replaced about 6 times one of which time was at the apple store where it also crashed for them. I have tried everything loading it manually sometimes day by day slowly it would reach a point and just do the same thing over again. I am at my wits end, thank god I still have my rugged old click wheel ipod to get me through the day. A couple of days ago I saw that there was itunes update 7.5 so I downloaded it that said it fixed some ipod classic issues, I went to this discussion forum for a couple days and didnt see much activity about the ipod classic so I thought maybey there was a cure. I then today went to my closet where the last ipod I received from the apple store was and proceeded to load it. Everything seemed fine until the end when the ipod ejected itself it said it was safe to disconnect... I disconnected it and it went into a continual crash with the apple logo displayed. I then connected it again this time putting it into disk mode and did a restore halfway through the restore I got a message saying that the ipod was corrupted. The ipod ejected and again went into the apple screen crash and I connected it and put it into disk mode again and reconnected it and proceeded to restore it. The fist restoration attempt gave me a message of unable to restore the ipod error 1419 so I tired it a second time. The second restoration was succesful and the ipod began to load. It then disconnected and did same thing over again continual crashing. So the last step was to again to start it in disk mode and I restored again only to be able to not load anything onto it and restore back to the factory settings so it will turn off so I can return it back to the closet and continue to be frustrated and disappointed in my purchase. it is pretty bad when you spend close to 400 dollars for something and you cant use it. I need a solution.

Thanks for your concern. I am using Vista and its a bummer because I have a G3 ibook and probably wouldnt be having this problem if I were using it. But I have to use a PC for work and I wanted all my music on my computer also for traveling on business. I just think there are some bugs for Vista and they can't iron them out yet. There silence on issues is quite frustrating I am very disapointed in my purchase. I was going to bu an Archos player and decided to be loyal to apple because even though I am on a PC for work I have had nothing but Apple computers from the beginning. I think there support is lagging a little on the ipod classic. I guess the only thing I can do is wait for another update from Apple. Because when i take my computer and my ipod classic to them they get the same result I do and they don't know how to support it. I have no options at this point. I was looking forward to buying movies and music videos too. Back to the closet shelf.

Viewing Podcast Descriptions on iPod Classic after Changing Media Kind to Podcast

Hi,
I have spoken word mp3 episodes as Media Kind: Music that I want to listen to on my iPod Classic 120 GB as Podcasts mainly because I want to be able to view the episode description of each to see the content while choosing which to listen to.
I have all the meta data entered, including the Description, for each episode, and in iTunes 11.0.1 OS X, I change the Media Kind: from Music to Podcast. The episodes go into the Podcast Menu fine and I can see the Description for each episode in iTunes.
However, when I sync my iPod and the Podcasts sync successfully to the device, each of these episodes is treated by the iPod as music in that when I press the center button to cycle through to the Description, the cycle sequence is like it is Music and the Description is not shown--it goes from Rating to the main screen and skips the Description.
Does anyone know if this is an iTunes or an iPod Classic issue, or if I (likely) am just missing something simple to be able to view the Descriptions.
I can get the Podcasts published successfully with the descriptions shown on the iPod using Typecast, but I have descriptions entered for a couple of dozen episodes already and I didn't want to have to do it all again if there was a simple fix.
Thanks!!

The information you refer to is carried in the feed, not embedded into the media file, so the only way of keeping it is by entering it into the 'Comments' tag yourself in the Info pane. Unfortunately you can't copy the text you see when you click the 'i' button, so you would either have to type it all in manually or download the feed and extract the text from there.

All of you who use the 80gb ipod classic and have problems with it freezing and syncing with itunes...well I have joined the club. This is a serious issue with apple and they need to correct it. I have tried everything to no avial.

This is beyond frustrating. I just wasted 70 dollars between a new battery and gas for my ipod 80gb classic. It was having major issues syncing and freezing with itunes. I tried everything possible and noticed that a lot of people have been having the same issues with their ipod classics as well. I must have restored it several times and now it just totally bit the dust. Now I have to shell out 130 dollars to send it in to apple to be rebuilt/fixed. This is nonsense and I just cant believe apple isn't doing anything to address this issue. My ipod was doing great for about nearly 5 years and now this. I even down-graded to itunes 10.7, but by the time I had it set up to try, that's when my ipod totally failed and will not even come on. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Here is what worked for me:
My usb hub, being usb2, was too fast. I moved the wire to a usb port directory on my pc. That is a usb1 port which is slow enough to run your snyc.

Has Apple addressed poor sound quality issues with new 160GB iPod classic?

I just bought a new 160GB iPod classic, replacing a perfectly good 80GB iPod Video (5.5), thinking that the newer one would be superior to my 3 year old model. I discovered that the sound of the new unit was flat and muddy compared to the older model. I found that the 5th gen iPod video was more "spacial", if that's an appropriate word to use; the bass was more present and more clearly defined, as was the rest of the sonic spectrum. I searched several forums to research this issue and while there were numerous references to this issue, all of the posts I found referred to the original iPod classics (80GB and 160GB) and not the later 120GB classics nor the new 160GB classics like the one I bought. Has Apple done anything to address this issue since the first classics were released or are the new ones still suffering from the same sound quality issues as the original classics?

Based on your observations here, they apparently have not changed the sound quality since the original 160GB classic. I noticed a clear narrowing of the sound stage (ambiance) between the 5.5G 80Gb and my 6G 160GB. You're describing the same characteristic. I don't own the newest 160GB version and came here today to see if it might have improved the sound quality back to the 5.5 spaciousness. Note that the 5.5G has a higher signal to noise ratio than the 6G, making it difficult for me to enjoy it through efficient balanced armature in ear monitors like the Shure SE530s or Ulimate Ears Triple.Fi 10s.

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