Shuffle 2g: Will play about 15sec of certain songs, before skipping to next

My problem has occured a few times now on different autofills of the shuffle. What happens is that one out of about 15 songs will play for only a teasing 15sec or so before skipping.
My music library is in great condition, properly tagged, mp3s at 192 vbr and volumed leveled with mp3gain. None of my songs have any difficulty playing on itunes, wmp, or foobar2000.
What gets me though, is that if it was a corrupt memory issue, I would think that it would have been fixed by the autofill.
Thanks,
Chad

I have this same problem, was curious if anyone has found a fix. The only thing that seems to work for me is to delete the song that is not playing all the way and re-loading it. This is a pain though as you have to check all of the songs after you load them.

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