I have a 7th generation iPod Classic, 160GB. The vast majority of the time I listen to it with my entire collection on shuffle. So usually I just let it play and don't pay much attention to it. But sometimes I will notice that my iPod skips right over certain songs, often times most of or an entire album. It doesn't even make an effort at playing the songs and if I try to play through an album that skips, it makes the iPod cycle super fast through all the songs until it goes haywire and is unable to play any songs at all and then I have to do a hard reset. Considering I have over 15,000 songs, it makes me wonder just how much of my collection skips and I just don't know it - How many of my songs am I not hearing, not because the shuffle never brings them up, but simply because the iPod skips over them? So began my long and frustrating journey over a few years in trying to find a solution to this problem. Please forgive my lack of techie knowledge and terminology as I try to explain things here. ;-)
I combed the internet forums constantly for a solution, trying every single idea presented (except converting the songs to a different format, which I did not feel I should have to do for my huge collection every time this problem arose). Nothing worked except re-ripping the songs, which had me super frustrated and thinking, "well, maybe I will have to convert my entire collection to another file type because if i keep having to do this, this is gonna be about the same amount of work" because as I spent many a day re-ripping songs that I could have sworn I had heard play at least once on my iPod before, to my horror I found that songs that I had previously listened to *dozens* of times with no problem at all would suddenly develop the skipping problem. As soon as I fixed one problem, a new one would crop up. It was turning into some sort of music whack-a-mole. How on earth would I be able to keep up with all of this, and why should I have to continually re-rip songs or convert them, etc. etc. when I never had this problem before with my other mp3 players?? I shouldn't have to put this much time and work into maintaining my library. Why were songs that worked fine before suddenly no longer functional??? I wasn't about to accept that there wasn't some way to fix this.
So one day I decided to see what would happen if I tried to sync my iPod with an alternative program like Media Monkey. Still no luck. So then I had an idea to try looking to see if Media Monkey would show me any information about the effected mp3 files that may be different from what iTunes shows me. I had remembered something someone had mentioned in a forum during my research on how to fix this problem.
A long while back on one of the forums discussing the song-skipping problem, someone had mentioned how there is some kind of information that is entered into the comments field of the mp3's tags that may be causing the skipping. But when I had looked at my affected mp3's through iTunes, I didn't see anything entered into the comments. Not only that, I had other songs that played fine despite having some weird number codes and stuff written into the comments. So I concluded it couldn't be that. But this time when I looked at some of the faulty files through Media Monkey, it showed a number code in the comments that I did not recall seeing there before in iTunes. So when I went back to iTunes to see if the code was there, the comments fields were blank! Apparently some of the information was hidden in iTunes, but showed up in Media Monkey. So I went ahead and "cleared" out the comments fields in iTunes even though there wasn't anything there, and I did the same in Media Monkey. Then I sync'ed up my iPod and... Lo and behold! The songs were working again!!!!
But as I started going through my list of songs that had stopped functioning (I tried to write down songs that skipped when I noticed them), I found that there wasn't a real pattern to the problem. Some songs showed comments (comments being the long number and letter codes) in both iTunes and Media Monkey. Some songs had code comments in iTunes but none visible in Media Monkey. Some songs didn't have comments visible in either program, but still skipped. And looking at my collection in general, not all songs that have a weird code in the comments on either program necessarily skipped. But whatever the case, if I at least went through and cleared out comments on the skipping songs even though there didn't seem to be anything there, the songs eventually began working again. I say eventually because as I experimented with this for a few weeks, I found that the results of clearing comments were not always immediate. For example, I had one album that didn't have comments visible in either program. After I "cleared" the comments fields and sync'ed my iPod, nothing happened - they still skipped, so I was pretty bummed that this tactic didn't seem to work on all songs. I figured I would still have to re-rip some songs. But then one day they started working again as I was listening to my iPod. Maybe it just needed a few syncs or maybe one or a few hard resets or something, but they eventually worked and this happened the same way with some other songs/albums.
So this solution might not be a cure-all and it might need a lot of experimenting to see what works, but for the most part it has worked pretty well for me. I hope this helps a lot of other people!
I wish I could remember where I saw that forum post about the comments field causing the skipping so I can give the person credit for their information, but it was a long time ago. I definitely give them belated thanks on planting this little seed of info in my head, though! Also, a while back I had found some articles that explained that iTunes enters these long number codes into the comments field if you have Sound Check on and I thought I had bookmarked them so that I could share it here, but now I can't even find those links and I don't remember the exact search terms I had used in google to come across those links. They were articles that specifically talked about this. I truly hope all this info helps!
I combed the internet forums constantly for a solution, trying every single idea presented (except converting the songs to a different format, which I did not feel I should have to do for my huge collection every time this problem arose). Nothing worked except re-ripping the songs, which had me super frustrated and thinking, "well, maybe I will have to convert my entire collection to another file type because if i keep having to do this, this is gonna be about the same amount of work" because as I spent many a day re-ripping songs that I could have sworn I had heard play at least once on my iPod before, to my horror I found that songs that I had previously listened to *dozens* of times with no problem at all would suddenly develop the skipping problem. As soon as I fixed one problem, a new one would crop up. It was turning into some sort of music whack-a-mole. How on earth would I be able to keep up with all of this, and why should I have to continually re-rip songs or convert them, etc. etc. when I never had this problem before with my other mp3 players?? I shouldn't have to put this much time and work into maintaining my library. Why were songs that worked fine before suddenly no longer functional??? I wasn't about to accept that there wasn't some way to fix this.
So one day I decided to see what would happen if I tried to sync my iPod with an alternative program like Media Monkey. Still no luck. So then I had an idea to try looking to see if Media Monkey would show me any information about the effected mp3 files that may be different from what iTunes shows me. I had remembered something someone had mentioned in a forum during my research on how to fix this problem.
A long while back on one of the forums discussing the song-skipping problem, someone had mentioned how there is some kind of information that is entered into the comments field of the mp3's tags that may be causing the skipping. But when I had looked at my affected mp3's through iTunes, I didn't see anything entered into the comments. Not only that, I had other songs that played fine despite having some weird number codes and stuff written into the comments. So I concluded it couldn't be that. But this time when I looked at some of the faulty files through Media Monkey, it showed a number code in the comments that I did not recall seeing there before in iTunes. So when I went back to iTunes to see if the code was there, the comments fields were blank! Apparently some of the information was hidden in iTunes, but showed up in Media Monkey. So I went ahead and "cleared" out the comments fields in iTunes even though there wasn't anything there, and I did the same in Media Monkey. Then I sync'ed up my iPod and... Lo and behold! The songs were working again!!!!
But as I started going through my list of songs that had stopped functioning (I tried to write down songs that skipped when I noticed them), I found that there wasn't a real pattern to the problem. Some songs showed comments (comments being the long number and letter codes) in both iTunes and Media Monkey. Some songs had code comments in iTunes but none visible in Media Monkey. Some songs didn't have comments visible in either program, but still skipped. And looking at my collection in general, not all songs that have a weird code in the comments on either program necessarily skipped. But whatever the case, if I at least went through and cleared out comments on the skipping songs even though there didn't seem to be anything there, the songs eventually began working again. I say eventually because as I experimented with this for a few weeks, I found that the results of clearing comments were not always immediate. For example, I had one album that didn't have comments visible in either program. After I "cleared" the comments fields and sync'ed my iPod, nothing happened - they still skipped, so I was pretty bummed that this tactic didn't seem to work on all songs. I figured I would still have to re-rip some songs. But then one day they started working again as I was listening to my iPod. Maybe it just needed a few syncs or maybe one or a few hard resets or something, but they eventually worked and this happened the same way with some other songs/albums.
So this solution might not be a cure-all and it might need a lot of experimenting to see what works, but for the most part it has worked pretty well for me. I hope this helps a lot of other people!
I wish I could remember where I saw that forum post about the comments field causing the skipping so I can give the person credit for their information, but it was a long time ago. I definitely give them belated thanks on planting this little seed of info in my head, though! Also, a while back I had found some articles that explained that iTunes enters these long number codes into the comments field if you have Sound Check on and I thought I had bookmarked them so that I could share it here, but now I can't even find those links and I don't remember the exact search terms I had used in google to come across those links. They were articles that specifically talked about this. I truly hope all this info helps!
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