Ipod shuffle randomly freezes....please help!!!!

My Ipod shuffle seems to randomly freeze after certain songs, or spots on the shuffle. I dont recall exactly when this first started, but it seems like ive tried everything. I have tried scandisk, defrag, resetting the ipod, updating it to latest firmware, and still nothing. The problem occurs whether or not I am in shuffle mode, or straight play. I would appreciate any help what so ever. I am at my wits end. I dont understand it at all. Scandisk detected no errors. Should I attempt to format it? Please help!!!!

Hello, Chris.
If the problem is corrupt files, there are a couple of things you can try.
Remove the songs from the shuffle's playlist, then refill the shuffle - but don't let the offending song(s) reload; we're trying to overwrite the memory. Then you can let these songs back on. If the problem continues:
If the songs weren't purchased from iTMS, try re-reripping/re-encoding them. Then reload them.
(These steps have worked with all but one song for me. I've never figured out why, probably just coincidence, but I have one song that would only play a couple of times before this started happening again. It's off the shuffle's playlist for good.)
If the songs were purchased from iTMS (and in another post I think you'd indicated they were) you can try to get them replaced or you can go the route of making an audio CD from them and reimporting the songs.
(I've never tried this, and one poster in this forum has indicated it will cause an unacceptable loss of quality.)
Good luck
srb

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mgangav wrote:
insanemal wrote:
change to lanuching gdm from your inittab using run-level 5
or remove agetty from tty2
both will resolve the issue.
Actually, how will running gdm from inittab help with this issue?
And I didn't understand what you meant by "remove agetty from tty2"
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Because if you use runlevel 5 you dont have agetty on TTY2 so it won't try and kill xorg all the bloody time
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You really need to be less critical of people offering you advice.. and possibly even check what they have posted in the past.. like the threads from months ago dealing with this issue. (search is great you know)

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