Nano Plays a few songs then reboots to main music screen

This issue not only pertains to the 3rd generation nano but the 4th generations as well.
I sync my nano 3rd generation to my PC which has all of my MP3 files on it. I have the nano set up so I manually manage music on it. I created playlist in latest version of iTunes 9. Loaded my new playlist and files to my nano. Ejected nano through iTunes. I go to listen to songs with nano now either through headset or in a docking station hooked up to a stereo receiver. Songs start to play then anywhere after either 3, 5, 7, or 10 songs max the iPod nano will finish the latest song playing and you then see apple logo on screen and nano returns to the main music menu. Music has stopped and you have to go back in to select music again for it to start playing. Then it just repeats this cycle. The nano never freezes or anything it just stops playing music, making you start the music playing process all over again.
I have done the following: Checked for latest iPod updates. I currently have the latest already. I have installed the latest iTunes application. I have restored the nano numerous times. I even reformatted it in vista to a FAT 32 file system then restored it again with iTunes. I have done all of the 5r's apple lists on the support site. I have even shut off the equalizer and shuffle on the iPod with no luck. I know of 2 other people experiencing the same situation on 3 nano 4th generation models. They said they have just grown use to having to live with this and can't figure it out either. I have contacted apple support about the issue and I was told to visit a service center for diagnostics or send it in to apple for repair, that this sounds like a hardware issue.
Now I own an iPod classic 60 GB and an original iPod 20 GB. Never has an issue at all with playing music. Music always play fine in iTunes too. Others that are experiencing this issue said they too own iPod classics and have no issue with them as well. This is only on their Nano's 3rd and 4th Generation models. I don't know if it affects any of the other nano generations as of yet.

This is a follow up to my original post about this issue. After pulling my hair out for about a week I finally fixed the issue. I don't know if apple can write either a new Nano update or not to fix this. This is not a hardware issue like a bad drive or anything. This has something to do with the nano program itself I feel.
Ok let me explain a little about my music files first. I DJ in my spare time and all of my music is digital. I either purchase the cd's, download from iTunes, or from Amazon. I encode my music in MP3 format at 256 kbs stereo using iTunes as my only music management application. I have used iTunes for 5 years now. I am very picky on my music and make sure they are clean legal files. Nothing from free file share sites.
What I did is I took all those files inside the playlist on my nano with the issues. I converted them all from MP3 format to Apple's AAC format with iTunes. Deleted all of the MP3 files from my Nano and replaced them with the same songs that are now converted in the AAC format. Ejected the Nano and went right to the stereo receiver and tried it out now. WOW Nano plays everything non stop without rebooting to the main music screen. It works now just like it is suppose to. I had it playing for over 3 hours straight with shuffle on and EQ set. Funny how this does not affect the classic models with mechanical drives and you never have an issue in iTunes when you play the playlist in MP3 Format. Only the Nano's. My main DJ software application has never had an issue playing my MP3 file either.
Most might not have this issue, because when they first get iTunes and a new IPod they usually install everything with Apple's default installation settings. So most systems are set to import as AAC files. But being a DJ and have the high quality MP3's, makes a noticeable difference in sound to me and others. I hope apple can figure this out because it sure would be nice to put MP3's on all of my iPod hardware. So I have to now set up a totally different library for this Nano with nothing but AAC files. I shouldn't have to do this if I have had iTunes encode all of my music in standards that iTunes claims it supports. Hey apple I'll take a free iPod classic for all my frustration on this issue;-)
I like the iPod products and software for managing music, that is why I still use them. But when you have an issue like this, it drives people like me nuts to get it fixed. So many times people just want to turn a piece of hardware in claiming it is defective, when most of the time, it comes right down to a software issue.
DJ by Night............IT Tech by Day
Hope this helps everyone else, like I said I know of 3 other Nano's doing this same thing.
Good Luck all,
Jim B from Arizona
Message was edited by: JimBoAZ

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