Nano Skips Certain Songs

Hello, is there a cure for my Nano? It skips certain songs. It will say play 3 minutes of a track then just move on? I have tried a resest, update, re-install - well I have tried everything I can think off!
It keeps happening on the same songs - however they play fine in iTunes!
TIA.

This may not be your issue - but I've downloaded junk songs that play quite well on my PC, but reek havoc when I put them on my iPod. I've determined it only happens when I download the music from an "unreliable source" and not from iTunes.
If you're getting all your songs from iTunes, then this bit of info doesn't help - best of luck.

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IPod Nano skips certain songs

My iPod Nano, version 1.0.2 Mac, model MD480LL, skips a handful of specific songs. When listening to music, one of these songs comes up for half a second and then skips to the next song, whether on shuffle or not. When I select one of these songs from the menu it does the same thing. These certain songs do not play on my iPod Nano at all. However, they play perfectly fine on my iMac, iPad, iPhone, and even my old 2nd gen iPod touch. My Nano is the only one that has this problem. I have tried restarting the Nano and restoring it, and the same songs still won't play. I've tried everything I could think of. I've serached through countless forums and have found many people with similar problems (but none exactly like mine) and I have tried every suggestion in each of these forums and none have helped. If you have any suggestions, any ideas at all, please don't hesitate to share.

First off, does your iPod only skip on songs that you have purchased from the iTunes Store? Or does it vary from some of those purchases, to some songs from CD's you've imported?
Also, does there seem to be a pattern, where your iPod only skips on particular songs, or is it ever-changing; for example, a few songs skipped yesterday, and now they don't skip anymore, but are replaced by different songs.
Have you tried restoring your iPod? For more info, take a look here -> Restoring your iPod to Factory Settings
If that attempt doesn't work, then try turning off your iPod's EQ settings.
Go to "Settings > EQ" on your iPod. If you currently have a specific option set (i.e., "Treble Booster", "Vocal"), then try switching your setting to "Off".
See if that changes anything.
One last question: are the songs playing fine in iTunes, although they may not be playing well on your iPod?
-Kylene
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8gb Nano skips certain songs

I've just purchased my first ipod, the 8gb nano.
I am on Windows XP, USB2, Itunes 7.0.1.8 and ipod software 1.1
For some reason, many songs skip. They get to a certain point in the song and then skip forwards to the next song. This happens at that same place in a song, but at different times for different songs. It is on mp3 files, they play fine in itunes.
I did a restore to factory default (still on ipod 1.1) and loaded on just 1 song through itunes and it skips in the same place.
Any ideas?

Hi there, I purchased an Ipod Nano 8GB, I run win XP and keep my MP3 library neat and organised. I was very upset to see that my Ipod Nano would skip tracks half way through at different places, then when i skiped back to replay the track it was missing. But when i took the track and played on itunes it was fine. I sent two nanos back to amazon for the same fault and with the last one, thought I would try some experiments. To my joy, I found a solution. It is a long winded one and I dont really understand why but it seems that the fault is with variable bitrate MP3 files. I saved a copy of my MP3's then converted all my library to Apples AAC standard. I no longer have the problem.

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I woke up this morning and started listing to my iPod and found that it skips certain songs. about 150 (more or less) of the 500 that i have downloaded. I just dont know what's wrong with it. The songs play fine on my iTunes but as soon as I try to listen to it on my nano it skips to the next song and acts like the song doesnt excist.
I have tried the five r's, I have the most updated model of iTunes (unless im mistaken and there is an iTunes 9).
I reset all of the settings both on my ipod and on the computer- which did nothing.
I read the manuals and looked at the error reports but there is nothing that explains this at all. that I've found...
whats weird is that the songs that are being skipped were all purchased from the iTunes store. I've read a few posts about simialar occurances but nothing exactly like this. I've had my iPod for three years (if that helps)
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Hello,
Take a look at this link: http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=97858 . The instruction in the last post may help you.
This other thread may also give you some good ideas: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=854344
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NEW "Ipod skipping certain songs" Post... Little help Apple!!!

I've been putting this off for a while, but I finally lost it the other night and almost threw my ipod out the window... upon further investigation I found a post on page 2 with 4500 views about this issue with still no resolution. My new ipod 80G skips certain songs at the beggining, middle, end, and probably without me even knowing. At first I thought this was a CD problem, but all the songs play fine from my Itunes library, then I bought $50 worth of songs (gift certificate, apple WILL NOT see any of my $$$ until this is fixed) and about half of my newly purchased songs played the whole way through (but they do in itunes). Reset 3 times, software update yes, different USB port yes, in fact I have done everything but restore because I dont want to put up with backing up (again) and "re-synching" 8,000 songs. I have synched about 12 times since with no progress what so ever. Whats the Deal???????????
Is there an answer to this problem out there? There are too many of us suffering from this for it to be ignored. It really ***** on live albums (which account for 50% of my library) and its irresponsible and downright unacceptable for it to be happening on my purchased songs. Thanks in adavance for your help and PLEASE feel free to voice your aggrivation here. Lets not only get 4500 views, but 4500 complaints!!

No, the backlight-always-on thing does not work.
I believe the problem is in disk management. I use DiskWarrior to graph my drive where I store my music, and it shows me that I have less than 1% of files out of order (which I assume means fragmented). The iPod, however, tends to have more fragmentation. When I optimize the drive and restore the iPod, the problem of skipping goes away with some songs. I've tracked this by putting the broken songs into a playlist. At one point, I optimized my music drive and restored the iPod and then played through the playlist of broken songs. Three of 31 songs were still broken, just as before. And I continue to encounter broken songs as I continue to listen to my entire collection -- a months-long process.
My old iPod (2nd generation) never had this problem, but it died after 5.5 years at the end of 2008. It would be nice if Apple would look at the software/firmware on the iPod Classic and fix the bug.
I plan to identify all of my broken songs and encode new copies of them, but I suspect that even if I always optimize my music storage drive before adding new music (I can never get the fragmentation down to 0%), I'll still have at least a few songs that will fail to play all of the way through the end unless Apple fixes the problem.

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Have you updated your iPod and iTunes sofware?
most cases, iTunes can play these high quality songs, which is meant for newer mobile devices like iPhones, iPod Touch, nano and iPad, which the older iPod cant play, but only playable with iPod classic sofware version 2.0.4
most likely it is an incompatible song format, read this Apple support article.
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My nano skips all the songs I downloaded in the iTunes Music Store.iTunes plays the songs in my libary but my iPod Nano doesn't play them and skips to the following song!
It's very weird, and I'm about to get desprate!
So if someone could help me?
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Try this:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
2. Connect it to your computer, and open MyComputer
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7. Find a file named iTunesDB
8. Make a copy of it and store it on your desktop, as well
***DO NOT DELETE THESE FILES***
1. Click Start > Control Panel > User Accounts
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Does this happen to purchased music only, or most all the songs? If it's only purchased music, check this out:
iPod doesn't play purchased content from iTunes Music Store
Troubleshooting songs that skip on an iPod
Have you tried restoring your iPod?...
Restore your iPod
Restoring will delete the content off your iPod, but will not affect anything else.
~~Kylene

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I brought my ipod yesterday and had the exact same issue. it would skip certain songs frequently and was extremely frustrating. Im not sure if this is the case for all ipods (i have an ipod nano 16Gb 4th gen, with firmware 1.0.4), but i fixed my issue in a series of steps. Im not sure which exact part of my method did the job, but here it is:
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