Moisture on Shuffle

I've read lists of complaints regarding the headphones. Mine have failed twice during exercise, but were okay when they dried. I am thinking that the problem is the connection with the headphone wire and the Shuffle. You would think that a waterproof connection would be a good feature for this product. Anyway,I have restored the Shuffle each time it failed and it heats up while attached to the USB, then works with the headphones. I find this a serious problem with a reasonably good product. Has anyone experienced a similar situation?

This has to be the most poorly designed feature I have ever seen. The point of having an iphone is to receive calls. That is overlooked by the iphone 4's reception problems. The purpose of having an ipod shuffle is to have a portable music library that you can listen to. The shuffle fails to do this. I understand the stated purpose of the headphones is to give easy access, but I'm beginning to understand its true purpose. They are designed to give you massive headaches so you are forced to buy a more expensive model. Shuffles are practically impossible to use with any type of standard car stereo interface hardware, but more importantly, they are impossible to use when you work out. The headphones seem to be designed to allow water to pass down the wire to the control mechanism using the properties of gravity and cohesion. So why wouldn't people smarter than me recognize this and make the mechanism waterproof. Oh yeah, they want it to fail so you buy the more expensive model. With this merchandise apple has put themselves in one of two categories, either they are scam artists and only want you to spend more money on accessories or more expensive moldes, or they were too stupid to recognize the problem in the first place(a problem easily recognized by testing it while running once or twice). Neither category is very flattering. Apple... you need to stop focusing on trivial features sucha s color and engraving, or in the case of the iphone that dumb thing that lets you see yourself when you talk. Instead, make sure the music players play music, or in the case of the iphone the ability to send and receive calls. A truly revolutionary concept.

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_I am a new poster, so I am sorry if this is not in the right section on the forum._
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*Saran wrap*
*Electrical tape*
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2: Then cut some electrical tape and wrap the ends of the saran wrap +making sure to seal it to the wire+.
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My shuffle worked great for a month. But now,
while
I'm running, either the sound cuts out or the unit
stops playing - I haven't been able to figure out
which. When this first started happening, I could
get
it to play again by pressing the play button - it
was as if it had paused itself. But now, I have to
do
all kinds of things to get it going again and I
really haven't been able to figure out what makes
it
start again. I turn it off and on, I pull out the
headphone jack and put it back in, I toggle
pause/play, and eventually one of those things
gets
it going again. It's really annoying and I have no
idea what's wrong.
Where do you clip the Shuffle when you run? Is it
possible that it is getting moisture in it? Or the
controls get bumped? Do you know about disabling the
controls by pressing PLAY/PAUSE for about 3 seconds?
Thanks for the suggestions. It's definitely possible that it's getting moisture on it, and I did not know about disabling the controls. I'll give that a shot and also watch out for moisture.

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t2mann wrote:
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I even swithed to another computer that didnt even have itunes, I downloaded it new songs and same thing.
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