MP3 plays in iTunes but not iPhone

I have the iPhone 3G running 2.0.2 software. I have a bunch of .mp3 files that I loaded into iTunes and then sync'd with my iPhone. There is one mp3 that plays just fine in iTunes but will not play on my iPhone. When I select the song on the iPhone, the artwork shows up for a second but then it just skips to whatever the next song is. I tried deleting the song from iTunes and re-sync'ing my iPhone and verifying the song was no longer there, then re-adding the song back to iTunes and re-sync'ing my iPhone but it still just skips the song. There is nothing special about the mp3, it's 5.4mb, 128kbps, 44.100kHz, -9.8dB, MPEG-1 Layer 3. Any ideas?

Thank you for your reply. Converting to AAC worked but why out of 653 mp3's, I ended up finding 13 different files that wouldn't play on iPhone until converted? Very odd. Does that "Consolidate Library" option in iTunes convert everything to AAC? I'm wondering if I should go ahead and do all my files. I'm wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are?

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