Volume Drops When Skipping Song (via Lightning Adapter)

I currently have an aftermarket iPhone connector in my car, to which I have attached a Lightning adapter. On the road today, whenever I skipped a song (using the button on my car stereo), the volume dropped considerably for the next song. Only when I used the "fast forward" button did the volume increase back to its normal level. If I let the playlist go from one song to the next uninterrupted, the volume stayed as is.
Given the sequence of the events, I am assuming it is either the phone or Lightning adapter. While I did a hard reset, I have not had a chance to test in the car again. However, I do not experience the same issue with regular headphones.

Yes! Same problem here on two different iPhone 4s (mine and my wife's). If I watch the volume bar on the phones when I skip songs, it doesn't move, but the actual volume output drops to about half. Like the original poster, pause/play seems to fix it... until the next time I switch songs.
SoundCheck is off everywhere (phones and iTunes), so no help there.
Yet another reason to miss my 3GS, I guess...

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When I'm playing a song (let's use an example: "Some Nights" by Fun.) and I decide to skip to the next song (to "We Are Young" by Fun.), pressing the skip/next button will cause the next song to jump considerably in volume. It's as if I increased the volume about 20%! It's extremely odd and really annoying. The volume does not jump if you select the next immediate song from a track list (in the album, playlist, etc.), and is not affected by hitting the back button to go to a previous song. Also, volume will stay at the increased level if you continue to select tracks with the skip/next button. The volume returns to normal if you use the back button like I mentioned earlier.
While this doesn't necessarily affect the overall functionality of my iPod, it's severely annoying and scares the crap out of me when I'm sitting in my car and I decide to skip a song.
I kinda doubt there's an actual potential solution to this besides restoring or deactivating/reactivating Sound Check, but if there are any other people who are also experiencing this... then we can all suffer together!
p.s. I've dealt with this volume issue since iOS 5.1, but even after installing 5.1.1, the issue remains.

I have also noticed this same issue, too. I have actually been noticing a slightly different facet of it, though. For one thing, I am already aware that I (we) can adjust individual sound volume levels (under Settings, for each track). But what I've also noticed is, whenever I do this (lower the volume level for a particular track(s)), not only does the "new" setting not register until the track is played again, but in fact, I actually have to play a short part of the track, then forward to the next track in the playlist, and then go back to the previously adjusted track, in order to hear the drop in volume.
I am really getting tired of this. I am especially getting tired of having to adjust the volume on my iPod Touch (4th Gen --- with very high quality earphones) every few songs of a playlist. And, I also concur with the previous poster, who claims the sudden increase in volume destroys his eardrums --- mine too. I hate it. Apple, please get a FIX for this issue, ASAP!!!!! It's (evidently) not just a few of us who are experiencing it, it seems to be everyone who has updated to iOS 5.1.1.
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When skipping songs, itunes saves the spot it was skipped at.

When skipping songs, itunes saves the spot it was skipped at. So if I skip song A at 1:00, next time song A comes up in shuffle it plays from 1:00, not 0:00. How do I fix this?

Treyax wrote:
When skipping songs, itunes saves the spot it was skipped at. So if I skip song A at 1:00, next time song A comes up in shuffle it plays from 1:00, not 0:00. How do I fix this?
That is a settable option for each song. Right-click, Get Info, and on the Options tab, uncheck "Remember playback position."
You can also highlight a bunch of tracks, or your whole music library, and change this option for all of them at once.

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Hi everyone,
first of all I apologize for my probably poor Engilsh, I'm Italian.
I own an old I-Pod classic 30Gb (firmware 1.2.1).
It has always worked fine until some days ago.
It started behaving in the way I'm going to describe.
I always listen to my 15Gb of music in shuffle mode, often at the start or in the middle of a song I decide to skip to the next one, because I'm not in the mood to listen it or whatever.
In these few years, when the song I skipped before shows up again in the shuffle mode, it has always started back from the beginning.
Now, instead, the skipped songs always start from the point in which I decide to skip them.
I know, I'm not very clear. I'll try to be clearer with an example.
- I listen to "Song number 1"
- at 0:48 I decide to skip "Song number 1"
- I shut off the I-Pod
- I reset and restart the shuffle mode
- "Song number 1" appears when it's its time and start from second 0:48 instead than from the beginning 0:00
The thing that amazes me is that it started doing that no more than a month ago.
Can you please help me shed some light on this issue? It is very annoing to have all these songs starting from a point in the middle or towards the end.
Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
Best regards
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Hello Marqo,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
I am not entirely sure on this one, but I have a feeling, the "remember playback position" option may be ticked for your music files within iTunes. To change this, locate each file, right->click (control->click on a Mac) on it and choose "Get Info" from the Shortcut Menu. When the window pops up, head over to the Options tab. Make sure there is NO check mark next "Remember playback position." Then hit OK when you are finished. Then sync the updated changes to your iPod.
Again, I don't know if this is really the issue, or I am forgetting some other option that may be causing this, but at least it's a good place to start.
Hope it helps.
B-rock

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Dummkopf wrote:
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