IPod doesn't play

When I select a song to play the message now playing appears at the top but the song doesn't play. Any suggestions?

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30G iPod doesn't play audio in movies or videos

My 30G iPod doesn't play audio in movies or videos... Can anybody help me?
Thanks!

What is the source of the videos and movies? Downloaded from the iTunes store or did you convert them from other sources? If the latter...
QuickTime expects video files with separate video and audio tracks, but many MPEG formats used a muxed (multiplexed) single track that contains both. Therefore, iTunes & the iPod (both of which use QuickTime) only show the video and no sound.
iPod plays video but not audio of some exported files
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302588
One way to work around this is to use MPEG Streamclip to convert the files to fix this issue...
http://www.squared5.com/
Frequently asked questions about viewing and syncing video with iTunes and iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302758
GUIDES TO: Converting Video for iPod - Mac & Window
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123067
Patrick

My iPod doesn't play songs...it's scanning them. Help.

My iPod doesn't play the songs. When I select a song, I press play and it bounces right back to the menu. Then, all on its own, it begins to scan through everyone of my 1,200 songs. What's happening? I did restart it an also re-booted the pod...nothing...same thing. Any suggestions? Would it help if I erased everything in the iPod?

Yep, a restore would probably be the next step.

Ipod doesn't play the songs! please help!!

when i try to play a song, the title of the song just like sits there but it doesn't play, like the numbers don't go forward, it just sits at 0:00. It isnt frozen because i can change the volume and do everything else. When i click the middle button to toggle from volume to how far into the song i am, if i scroll over a bit to make me further in the song, it just changes to the next one.
Just now i tried going to the next song or something and whats happening now is every song i have is like popping up on the screen, like its scrolling through all my songs one by one till it got to the end and now its at the main menu.
Can anyone please help????

Try resetting your iPod and/or resyncing the files to the iPod. Also below are two articles that may help
Troubleshooting songs that skip on iPod
iPod: Troubleshooting songs and audiobooks that won't play

5G iPod doesn't play sound

I have a 5G 30GB iPod that just today stopped playing and sound. It still lets you scroll through the menus and also shows its playing a song, but you cannot hear anything. It won't play sound through the headphone jack, and I also have an Alpine CD Player with the iPod direct connect cable, and that does not work as well. I reset the iPod today and that did not do anything, and I also tried restoring it and that did not fix the problem as well. I contacted Apple support and found out it would cost $130 to fix my iPod, but the lady I talked to could not tell me what is exactly wrong with the iPod because she had never heard of this problem before. I'm basically looking to hopefully fix it myself since I dont want to shell out $130 to repair it, but probably will give in if I cannot fix this myself.

mine does the same thing...i got it replaced once under warranty and they gave me a "new" one which began to malfunction 3 months after i got it :\ It plays the music all staticy and when i took it in they told me nothing was wrong with it...but it doesn't play and ive changed the head phones and reset it and run all the diagnostic tests...needless to say im very dissappointed with apple right now! what makes it worse is when i took it in the ipod wasn't even registered to me which means they gave me someone else's ipod which had been replaced! but since it was out of warranty when i found out it was 140 to get a new one if they found something wrong with it. so idk but this is my 2nd 5G ipod and i think its a bug that is in all of them.

IPod doesn´t play songs anymore - it just keeps skipping through the playli

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When I select to play a song - no matter if selected from the menu via interpret / album or title, it goes to the list of songs, but doesn´t play them. It keeps skipping the tracks (1 to 2, to 3 and so on) until the end of the playlist is reached. Then, it returns to the main menu. Is it just some software bug, which can be solved or is it broken?
I appreciate any help!

You can use yamipod http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ to copy from iPod to the PC. If the files are damaged/corrupt on the iPod tho this won't do much good cuz you'll just have a copy of damaged files. Just use yamipod to copy and see if they play fine on the PC. If they do then you can continue with a restore using the iPOd updater. If that does not work it MAY be that the iPod is damaged and you will have to send it in for repairs

1 iPod 2 iTune account, iPod doesn't play the songs purchase

we have A, B two itune accounts, when tranfering songs purchased by A iTune account, iPod won't play the songs that were purchase by B iTune account.
what should we do with it?

Lo,
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195

Ipod doesn't play Songs..please help

I got a brand spankin new 30 gb black Video iPod and it is beautiful....but it doesnt play anything...
its all there, it just doesnt play....Ive tried taking everything off then putting it on..reinstalling itunes---nothing works
If anyone can help then it would be greatly appreciated cuz i jus got a $300 solitare player right now
PLEASE!

ok first do you have the latest ipod software?
if not down load it.
try resetting your ipod,
and finnaly if reseting it doesn't work restore it

Ipod doesn't play playlist in order

I got a new Ipod about 5 months ago and ever since I got it, the songs I put in playlists do not play in the order I put them. This also happens if I get new songs and add them to the playlist they are skipped over until the end (if they play at all.) Why does my ipod just randomly shuffle my playlists? I checked the settings and there is nothing I can figure out to do. Please help. I gave away my old ipod when I got this new one now i'm regretting it. Thanks!

Try deleting the songs off your ipod and then plugging it into itunes and re-syncing them to the device, whenever my ipod plays up with the music, thats what i do, but if in your case this doesn't work, and this feature is really necesary for you, restore/reset your ipod.

IPod doesn't play podcasts??

Ok, so I sent my iPod to be repaired....replaced the cables....reset, restored, reformatted, re-everything over and over again. In the end it still freezes or resets about 80% of the time when I play podcasts on it. It happens at various times on various podcasts. It could happen within a few seconds or possibly a few minutes....if I am very lucky it might make it all the way through the podcast. I have worked with multiple layers of apple support, and nothing works.
Well, it all came down last night. Basically, my support person told me that if this last reformat and restore didn't help (which it didn't), then there wasn't much they could do for me because they don't guarantee that the iPod will play podcasts. What?! Sure, I understand that they can't guarantee any particular podcast, but I am referring to any and ALL podcasts. When I hear that from Apple it means that the following must be true:
An iPod that will not play ANY podcasts can still be categorized as fully functional and acceptable for purchase.
I'm sorry but I find that to be unacceptable. Half the reason my wife bought me the iPod Nano as a birthday gift was so I could listen to podcasts (and we aren't talking about some slacker's blogcast...this is the NYT, NPR, etc).
Am I missing something??

I have found another disadvantage to using Dopi.
I've had times when a podcast doesn't get downloaded fully: after downloading an episode of an hour-long program the podcast shows up in iTunes as being just, say, 23 minutes long. Normally you could delete that episode, click the right-pointing arrow in the line with the name of the show (NOT the line for the episode) to bring up the show in the iTunes store, and download the episode again (and again, and again, sometimes).
If an episode doesn't download properly in Dopi, clicking on that arrow in the show name's line brings up the show's website, and often you cannot simply get a particular episode of the podcast from that website.
This is not so much a complaint about Dopi -- not much they can do about it, I reckon -- but about the fact that we need something like Dopi at all. Feh.
For me, it is only "Talk of the Nation - Science Friday" that I want in order, as they break up the two-hour show into segments (convenient, yet not so for the Shuffle) and often talk about what's been said in a previous segment, which for me comes later. I've dropped Dopi and now I either load just one segment of Science Friday with a few other shows, or I load all the segments and mutter under my breath when I hear references to a previous segment I'll not hear until after the current one.

IPod doesn't play the whole song

I have a couple of songs that are about 5.5 minutes long. However, whenever I play them on my iPod the songs always end at 5 minutes. I don't have this problem when I play the song on iTunes. The songs were not ripped from a CD, but are mp3 files. Is there any way to fix this?
By the way, I have a 4th generation iPod if that matters.

I maybe can answer.
One reason can be if you didn't update you iPod correctly, that happend to me.
And the other reason can be that you didn't convert your CD's correctly, that have happend me too.
That's what i know, try to update iPod again, if that doesn't work. Then erase your songs from the list and import then again.
It worked for me.

I just updated to OS 4.0, and now my iPod doesn't play music

I just installed OS 4.0, and now I can't play music. If I select a track then it will take me to the "Now Playing" screen, and sometimes it will immediately bounce back to the track selection screen, sometimes it won't. But either way it won't play. If I press the play button at the bottom of the screen then a play icon momentarily appears next to the battery indicator, then immediately disappears.
Also, when I plug the iPod into my computer, iTunes gives me a "set up your iPod" screen, in which I am offered two options: "Set up as a new iPod" or "Restore from the backup of: Phil's iPod". I don't think I want to do either, do I? Will restoring from the backup revert to the old OS or what?

Huh. I phoned Apple's tech support and was told I needed to restore my iPod, which would mean losing all saved data thereon. iTunes spent ages trying to restore, before telling me that it could not do so - something about data being used by another application. However when I tried using the iPod again I found it was now able to play music. I haven't lost any of my data, and it seems to be working fine now.

5th Generation iPod doesn't play Movies

Hi all,
a friend of mine bought a 5th Generation iPod some weeks ago
and I'm going to buy one, too. But there's one little thing that makes me nervous...
A few days ago we connected the iPod to my PC an everything started - iTunes did it's work.....very cool!
Forehanded I converted some videos for the iPod Video and I we were happy, when iTunes started transfering them, too.
After the work was done, I disconnected the iPod and tried to play a music video at first - nice! It works!
After that I tried to run one of the five full movies,
but it didn't work. The iPod shows them in it's list,
but nothing happens, when I'm trying to play them. =(
I don't really understand....the Pod shows a black screen for a few seconds and returns to the menu then.
I hope someone is able to help.....and I'm sorry for my bad English.
Thanks.
bye,
darker

In order for the iPod to play videos, they must be in the correct format, which is .MP4, .M4v, .MOV. I recommend that you just stick the videos in iTunes, and then right click on the movie file, and click "Covert for iPod". This will ensure that everything is going to be in the correct format.
Hope that this helps,
Cory

My iPod doesn't play songs, and is not recognized by iTunes

Well, I have had my iPod for about 3 years, it is a 4th generation non-video 40 GB. One day it just stopped working, and now it does not play any songs. when I turn it on it makes this odd whirring sounds that computers make when they try really hard to do something. I cannot charge it, and it is not recognized by iTunes. Also when I turn it on, I get the apple.com/ipod/support (or whatever it is) screen. Needless to say, my warranty is expired, and so I cannot do anything for it except get a new battery, or buy a new one. Is there any way to fix this problem, or anyone out there who is experiencing the same thing?
P.C Windows XP

Well, I have had my iPod for about 3 years, it is a 4th generation non-video 40 GB. One day it just stopped working, and now it does not play any songs. when I turn it on it makes this odd whirring sounds that computers make when they try really hard to do something. I cannot charge it, and it is not recognized by iTunes. Also when I turn it on, I get the apple.com/ipod/support (or whatever it is) screen. Needless to say, my warranty is expired, and so I cannot do anything for it except get a new battery, or buy a new one. Is there any way to fix this problem, or anyone out there who is experiencing the same thing?
I'm having the exact same problem with my wife's iPod. However it will play about 3 seconds of a song and go onto the next song.
If there is anyone out there that can help please do!
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IPod doesn't play music from certain artists

Every time I select about 5 of my songs from Linkin Park they will not play (this goes for only some songs by this artist only). When I play the song, it shows the beginning screen, and then skips to the next song. If I pause it and skip ahead it goes back to the beginning. Why is this happening?

Do the songs play ok in iTunes? Have you tried
deleting them from the iPod and then re-load them?
They do play in iTunes, but I haven't tried reloading them yet. I got them from iTunes about half a year ago and about 3 months after that they just stopped playing.

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