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iPod mini
I've had my iPod mini for about eleven months and it's always worked fine. However, recently I've noticed a problem with playing music on it. There are certain songs that just won't play. If the iPod randomly selects one of these songs then it will just skip past it until it finds a song that will play. I've tried going to the albums that the songs are on and selecting them and trying to play them that way, but that doesn't work either.
Has anyone had this problem with their iPod mini or know how to solve it?
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I've had songs like that before (not a mini, but on a 20gb original, so same generation as yours). Is your problem with songs that you've just transferred onto the iPod, or are these long-time songs which have just started with this strange behaviour? Possibly the former problem is easier to fix then the latter.
There might be many possible reasons as to why your songs won't play, but my problem was that some of my music files were set in read-only mode -- the iPod seems to skip those files. Try finding the files on the hard drive and seeing if they're set in that mode -- if they are, get rid of it (in Windows, right-click > Properties, look for box that says Read-only). Then transfer it to the iPod _fresh_ (make sure to get rid of its corresponding files before transfer, don't just transfer and overwrite).
That's just one suggestion. Even if it doesn't work, at least that's one less problem to consider. =)
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Okay. I've had my ipod mini since March, && I've had that problem, but all my friends who got ipod nano's for Christmas, had the simalar problem.
Try updating your software && looking thur your songs to see if they aren't infected by something. If that doesnt work you should look into sending it to Apple to if they can refurbish or whatever. If you havent had it for a year, it'll be free because of the one year warrenty.
Sara :)
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Yep, I've had the same problem. I first updated the software on my iPod, and that sometimes solved the problem. If not, just reset your iPod then re-load all your music onto it. If that still dones't solve your problem, burn the songs that won't play on your iPod onto a CD, delete thsoe songs off your iPod, then re-import the files using the CD.
hope I helped! ♥
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Hi,
Do you buy music from the iTunes music store? If you do, then I think those songs only play a certain number of times (5? I'm not sure). If you had those songs on your iPod, it's possible you've run out of plays.
Apart from that, I think earlier iPods may have had trouble with some 'configurations' of sound file. Apart from songs having to be in mp3, aac, apple lossless, or perhaps something else, there are particular ways of making these formats. Here's a short explanation:
You can have CBR, or VBR. The C stands for Constant. The V stands for Variable. The BR stands for bit-rate. Depending on how old the software, "Firmware" on your iPod is, perhaps it doesn't like VBR files.
You get different bitrates also, but I think Apple's always supported high bitrates so that shouldn't be your problem.
Also, if you have iTunes, it could be an idea to use the option of converting the "ID3 tags" on all of your music to the version it suggests. Sometimes files have the wrong version of 'tag', and won't play because of that.
Before you check any of these things out though, I suggest that you check what version of Firmware you have on your iPod, and update if there's an update available. If you've got a mac, do this through the apple menu at the top left of your screen (select "Software Update..." and look for an iPod firmware update/er). If you have a windows computer, I think you might have to go to the apple website and download it as a .exe or something.
Hope those help!
-K
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