Large Files & iPod

I recently purchased a 60 gig iPod.
I listen to electronic dance music, which is mixed continuously. Therefore, I have been ripping my CDs as single tracks to avoid the infamous gap between track numbers.
I also record my own mixes from turntables and like to put those files on my iPod. These mixes are often long, but I still keep them as large files so they will play gapless.
However, I am having a problem with one file in particular. It is the first part of a 2 part set. The file is very long... over 3 hours, Apple Lossless format.
I was able to transfer the file over to the iPod, and play it there a few times. But now my iPod won't play the file anymore. If I click to play it.... the iPod just sits there trying to load it... and after a few moments, it skips to part 2 of the set... which is another file in the playlist.
I don't understand why my iPod won't play Part 1 anymore.
Is it because of the large filesize?
Any ideas??

There is no work around unforunately. It is a hardware limitation of the iPod. Sorry.
B-rock

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I’ve restored my iPod recently, and run a basic check on the disk using Windows’ built-in disk utility.
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All I want to do is share a video with a friend and thought that BT cloud would be perfect! Oh, if only that were the case :-(
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Thanks. I tested it out and you were correct. I loaded 2 .dv movies from my external HD back onto my internal HD, and got them re-imported into iMovie, took a few short clips from each of the 2 iMovie events and pasted them into a new project in the Project Browser. Then I deleted these 2 "source clips" from my internal HD, closed iMovie and then re-opened it and found that iMovie would NOT export the smaller clips for a "highlights" .4mv movie without the "source clips" being available.
I read your link on Quicktime. It talks about mostly trimming, which is what I did with each iMovie event before I took each one as a project to export as a smaller .4mv file. But if I use Quicktime (do I need QT Pro or basic), what advantage is it to me to use QT over iMovie (I must admit I am a novice at iMovie and have never used QT or QT Pro as a tool)? Will it then convert any edits I make to a .m4v movie or do I need iMovie to do that?
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