Skipping songs and other troubles

Hi!! Can anyone please help me? My brandnew iPod Nano started out of the blue to skip all of my songs and wont show my pictures anymore. I think I always did everything right with it and now that. Only have it for a month and I allready had to restore it before. Can anyone please help??

Hi! Had problems on the iTunes. My iPod didnt show up and the technical help person from the phone service told me to restore it. That was just a week after I bought it... It's the first time I have an iPod. Just don't know what's normal or not. Can't imagine why I have all the problems if I'm following the "rules" if you know what I mean. Love the iPod but I'm kind of disappointed by all the problems...

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Groan... iPod skipping songs and other things..

Greetings,
My iPOD is a year old today,I have the "old and archaic" 20GB iPods. Recently i've noticed that my iPod has started skipping songs, that is I select a song to be played and the song features comes up, but then it skips forward to the song ahead. Also this past weekend, when I tried to play my IPOD and I turned it on.. I got an message that says www.apple.com/ipod/support...Also for some reason when I press play the pause sign and the lock feature is still on my iPOD.
This is only recently, after I got the last iPOD update that I seem to be having problems. A bit ironic, I think.
Anyway, i'd be greatful for some help.
Thanks

Hi! Had problems on the iTunes. My iPod didnt show up and the technical help person from the phone service told me to restore it. That was just a week after I bought it... It's the first time I have an iPod. Just don't know what's normal or not. Can't imagine why I have all the problems if I'm following the "rules" if you know what I mean. Love the iPod but I'm kind of disappointed by all the problems...

If your ipod freezes, skips songs, and wont load, read this

ok, i have a 4th gen 40gb ipod which worked fine until i upgraded to itunes 5. now my ipod shows a folder with !, songs skip, and it freezes after 5 songs.disk mode didnt help either, as it didnt show up on my computer even though the ipod displayed do not disconnect. I found a fix for it. it sounds dangerous and crude, but it worked for me, and some other people. plug your ipod into your computer and it will say dont disconnect, and your comp probably will be locked up like normal until ipod loads, then take your ipod, and hit it on its side on a hard surface. do it while you hear the Hard drive spinning. NO JOKE. my ipod started working right after. however, the sound is really crappy now, but i was at least able to backup my files, and i'm going to use my warrenty to get a new one. the reason this works is beacuse somehoew the hd pin is out of place, and you can hear it clicking. hitting it will get it back in place. i know this sounds crazy, but trust me, it will stop skipping songs and freezing, and will appear on your computer. I warn you however, if you break your ipod doing this, dont blame me, i'm just saying this because it worked for me. give it a try if nothing else works. hope this helps. itunes 5 was really bad. anyone know where to get itunes 4.9, that was fine for me, and i had a separate podcasting program anyway.
--Peace

Hi Mark,
I tried entering the serial number onto the apple website, but it says my iPod had not been registered (although I have registered it!).
Anyway, I phoned apple support and they told me to go to depot.info.apple.com/ipod and fill in a service request. Unfortunately it said that my iPod is out of warranty, so I had to phone again to get them to update their records about the and they are sending out a service box in the next few days
I think I'm definately going to take out the applecare service now!

The music app on my Iphone 5 is acting up, it keeps skipping songs and wont allow the to play. You can see the music icon the on notification bar play and pause. When i go back to the app is states the url is not responding. I have restored it.

The music app on my Iphone 5 is acting up, it keeps skipping songs and wont allow the to play. You can see the music icon the on notification bar play and pause. When i go back to the app is states the url is not responding. I have restored it from the backed up cloud save. It is the music app, I played music on pandora and it worked fine. I think it must be the app or the ios.

restore with itunes not from an itunes backup or cloud save they do absolutely nothing only a clean restore will solve your problem

How to connect my iphone to iTunes with my imac so i can mannage my songs and other documents on my phone

how to connect my iphone to iTunes with my imac so i can mannage my songs and other documents on my phone

Launch iTunes on your Mac, plug your phone in, select it in the sidebar, select what you want to sync under the various tabs, hit the sync button. If the sidebar is not visible, go up to the "View" menu & select "Show Sidebar".

Skipping songs and only letting me put 300 songs onto my 4GB nano

On my 2nd generation nano ipod, it will play a couple songs and then skip a lot. Certain songs will skip and certain songs will play. any suggestions?
My other problem is it will only let me hold about 300 songs on my 4GB nano. Right now i have 326 songs and it says " 2.12 GB required, 47.58 MB remaining" I'v had his ipod for about 2 years.

While I think the first may be related to the second, I will pass on it.
The song count can vary widely depending on the format and quality of encoding. What are your songs encoded as, and what bitrate/quality are you using?
Are all your songs encoded the same? Easy way to check that is to enable the "kind" column (right click on the column headings) in your main iTunes display then sort by that column. Quality/bitrate can be seen using the "bit rate" one.

Skipping songs and detection sorta solution

hi there.
i dunno if this has been posted, but when your ipod starts skipping songs, just play pause and when it shows the pause icon (cuz it might freeze a little) then click play again and it will correct that problem. although it can happen next time you use your ipod.
also, i have the problem that lots of us have. the not recognition on pc. i thought my cable was damaged but i tried with a known good one, and same stuff. it says removable disk unit instead of Ipod on My pc. itunes does not reconize it and neither does updater. randomly, it does reconize it, but updater tells me that in order to use ipod, i must have it reformatted. but when i try to do that, it says it cant!!!
personally i think its a software issue that came with around september/november update. apple screwed up i believe.
anyway, i kinda have a temporary solution to this (can say it work on all of you guys but give it a try).
i own a 40gb 4gen not color display ipod, which i treat better than anything so it has not fallen down once. and i tried everything in apples troubleshoot says
well i uninstalled everything ipod related, and installed itunes and updater i was given when i got my ipod, thats itunes 4.7 and updater 2004 04 28. i made my ipod be detected again, but not always.
when updating around track 1100(or long time of connection) te ipod makes a barely audible click kinda noise, and stops updating.
i hope this **** ends up soon cuz ipods aint cheap. also some parts of the usb and firewire cables tear apart themselves. not big deal but that is not the high quality apple is used to give.
and thats a piece of my mind.

I've had these skipping and loading problems... I sent my iPod (4G 20GB black and white) to an apple store... Two months later I was enjoying the new iPod they'd sent me (seems that my iPod had a malfunctioning magnetic support recorder =X)

Skips songs and doesnt play them all... HELP!

When I turn my ipod on and push shuffle songs, it skips songs by itself and only plays certain songs. I know they work because I have played these songs on there before, this problem just started a day or so ago. Also when I try to turn off the ipod, it takes a lot longer then it should to turn off. Does anyone have any suggestions or anything to help me?? This is a fairly new ipod, only got it about a month and a half ago.

The iPod mini was discontinued over a year ago...in Sept. 2005 if I recall correctly. So if you got it in brand-new condition more recently than that, it's probably a different model (in which case you shold go to the respective forum where you might have more luck). Or, is it perhaps are used or refurbished iPod mini?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688
I know some people who are new to iPods mix up the mini and the nano.
And, by any chance, are the skipped songs ones that you purchased off of iTunes? I've heard that can happen.

Even 1.01 skips songs and freezes / stops videos

I bought my red 3G Nano on september 17th directly at apple store and updated the firmware to 1.01 soon as it arrived. But even wth the updated firmware my iPod randomly skips songs while playing. Some videos are freezing (randomly) or the iPod displays the apple-symbol on a grey radient background. If i restart the same video and scroll to some seconds before the moment it freezes or hangs before it plays fine but hangs some minutes later.
I did all ways of resetting even a complete restore doesnt solve this bug.
Did anyone with 1.01 have the same experience? Is this a hardware defect or a software bug.
regards,
Mark

Ok, my first point is I have never ever had an iPod before i bought these 2 8gb nanos(3g) black and 'red'.
In no way do I want to come across as rubbing your nose in it or smug, but EVERY feature works as designed on my 2, albeit I think Apple should change the way cover flow works on the nanos, ie not covers by artist.
I can only think that either the problems you're getting are related to the content your attempting to 'dump' to the iPod (very unlikely), or that simply you need to replace the iPod ASAP with your nearest Apple store.
Best Regards.

IPod touch 5th generation skips songs and stuck on sync

I just bought a brand new ipod touch 5th generation today after my little over a year old 4th gen had an issue with software affecting the battery. Now, after syncing my library to the new ipod, and updating to ios 7.0.3, there are songs being skipped and when I try to sync, it gets stuck on "waiting for changes to be applied."
I am so upset because I spent so much money to replace one faulty product with another.
Does anyone have any information on how to fix this problem?

Troubleshooting songs that skip
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Ipod skipping songs and getting stuck

my ipod ive had for about a year
after about four months of its purchase though it started having problems, it would skip songs half way and sometimes not even play some of them.
whats the problem?
20GB ipod Windows XP

I have also been having a similar problem. I have the non-U2 version/20G with the click wheel and have had it for a little over a year. I primarily use my iPod in my car with a Griffin iTrip to play through an FM station. I realized recently, however, that I had not heard some of my favorite songs lately (all purchased music).
After a closer look, the iPod is skipping most of my purchased music, both when using the iTrip and my headphones. Once I select a song, it will shuffle through the entire folder or eventually land on a song and play it.
I was worried that the drive might be on its way out, which is why I'm here. I found a previous post where the answer was that there might be an issue with the accounts (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1938283#1938283) and authorization/deauthorization. I have definitely had experience with both, as I moved my iTunes acct to my laptop from my desktop. However, the move was made months ago and my iPod only stopped working a few weeks ago. Since the move, I have connected the iPod to iTunes on the laptop many times, though I have not connected since for several weeks.
Just a few minutes ago, I reconnected the iPod and played some of the songs in question from my iPod's folders and they worked fine. I have since disconnected the pod and tested it again, and it works fine with the headphones as well.
After this, my only conclusion is that I may need to upgrade to a fancy/shiny new model if the problem persists.
Does anyone know what may be causing the issue?
Sony Vaio FS660 Windows XP

160GB Classic is skipping songs and entier albums, sometimes locking up for no reason.

I newly purchased a 160GB iPod classic to replace my 3-year+ old 16GB touch. I found myself wanting more storrage to music and less of games and apps, so it was a no brainer. Anyway, there have been many problem to come with this item and now I'm not sure if I want the pain and agervation that comes with the classic.
Just today I noticed tracks in my playlist would skip. Sometimes the song would never play or the song would get 30-50 seconds in and just skip to the nest. All these problems are on a full-album scale: if one track has this problem, then they all do. Also, mor recently, the iPod has been locking up on me. Even when I just go to connect it to my PC with the USB cable, it will lock-up right when connection is made which will force me to do a device reset. I know the classic is HDD based and not flash memory, but, I can assure you, I've been very careful with it. I always am with my stuff.
I tried to remody these issues with a factory reset thorugh iTunes but this just seemed to make it worse. I've even had iTunes to my iPod is corrucpt and needs to be factory reset.
Should I just take it back while I still can and exchange it for a (maybe?) working version?
Thanks!

Skipping songs are due to corrupted MP3 tag headers, so no point in getting a new iPod, you just need to get your music in your iTunes library fixed by a free 3rd Party software called MP3 validator.
Google it and run for all your music in the library.
Good Luck!

I have an iPhone 4S and have updated it to IOS 6.1. All of the music on my itunes will no longer sync, it skips songs and not everything appears. I have tried restoring it and I still have the same problem.

The songs are checked (selected) in iTunes but when i have synced it to my iPhone 4S they are not on there or they skip through them when playing them. Please help!

fighter19lisa wrote:
that only makes it say its synced, when its not.
No, it does not. It transfers purchases from the iDevice to the computer. The computer must be authorized for the Apple ID that the content was acquired with.
fighter19lisa wrote:
my playlists wont show up on the phone.
Are they selected to sync? Is Manually Manage content on the device selected?
fighter19lisa wrote:
i had to change my password for my aol account again and i still cannot get my email on my phone to even work
What does that have to do with syncing content to the device? FYI, nothing.

Ipod skips songs and / or freezes, won't play any song

Listening to my ipod I skipped to next track, but no sound came. Looking at display I noticed that the ipod had skipped about twenty tracks. Tried going back to track I wanted to play but ipod wouldn't play it - time display stuck at 0.00 for a few mins then skipped to next track, same problem. Went to completely different track - same problem.
Checked on itunes - all songs played fine, both those listed under my home hard drive, and those listed under the ipod's drive on itunes.
Resynched ipod - same problem - initially one or two songs would play, but when trying to play the specific track I first tried, it would skip through the next twenty or so tracks then stop playing anything.
Tried soft reset - same problem.
Tried restoring to factory settings - same problem.
Took to apple store genius bar - they made no attempt to work out what was going wrong, just replaced ipod as it was still under warranty. Got home and resynched all songs - same problem!
This suggests it is a problem with the song files, but I don't understand why they play fine on itunes. Also, the file type (mp3), bit rate, sample rate, file size, etc is exactly the same in both locations.
Have tried all troubleshooting tips on this site, and all software is latest version.
Any ideas?

Good night, Chris.
Well, it may have lots of reasons: changing files from original folders, uninstall/install codecs in other programs, errors on iTunes Sync service, deleted .dll's, viruses and etc...
To easier the work for you, you can do it in all your iTunes library or make a backup of your files and reinstall iTunes (enjoy to update it, if you haven't yet).
Try "consolidate files" also, it can avoid that iTunes search from the files in wrong places, and automatically organize your .mp3/.aac files.
In a last tool, try to change the iTunes import preferences.
Once you are in a high step level, give a glance on this things on:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2199128
and give a special look to this scripts:
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp
Hope to help.

My 4th Generation Nano skips songs and won't play some of them

So, over the past couple of days while I put my 4th Generation Nano on Shuffle mode, it will skip over some songs. Not a delayed reaction, but... say I skip one song. Then it'lll skip over a few, and when I hit the back arrow, it won't play it.
Also, as an example, I was listening to Alesana, then it suddenly switched to Disturbed, then skipped over it, and started to play Bullet For My Valentine. When I went to go click back to play Disturbed, it wouldn't play and skipped back to BFMV.
Help?
And one more thing, my iPod has been also doing this weird thing where it will say it's playing one song, then be playing another. Such as... it will say it is playing Apology by Alesana, and really be playing Guarded by Disturbed.
Is there any possible way to fix this? I've tried restoring it on iTunes, and reseting my iPod multiple times. It's only 3 years old, I don't want to have to bury it this soon! D:
-Trisha

If that didn't work you should try downloading the Latest iPod Updater and then Restoring the iPod to factory settings.

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