Song glitches with audio crossfade turned on

With audio crossfade turned on, after a song finishes and it fades out/into the next song, occasionally the next song will have a glitch in the beginning part of the song. When hitting the << button to restart this song, the glitch would not be there. It seems worse when the file type and/or bit rate is different from song to song (i.e., an AAC file at 320 kbps followed by a MP3 file at 128 kbps). With audio crossfade turned off, these glitches don’t happen. Has anyone else noticed this?

No, it doesn't happen all the time and since I listen to all songs in shuffle mode, I haven't been able to get a good sense of repeatability with the same tracks. I will have to try that out and play a set of songs in the same order several times and see if there is a pattern. But being a little suspicious of the varying bit rates from song to song, I had done an experiment since my original post. I made a new playlist right on the nano (which was very easy to do, better than how an on-the-go playlist is made on previous nanos) which contained songs that were all AAC audio files at 320 kbps. When playing that playlist with crossfade on, I didn't hear any glitches. I don't use the voiceover feature, so I don't know whether any track announcements would have any glitches. Do you think that turning on the voiceover feature would be worth a try to see if the glitches occur there too and to rule out any issues with the audio files themselves?

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