[schwa]

I have a 10GB iPod. Since I've had it, I've had the nagging problem of it randomly skipping the first song it plays at any given time. The song info will be on the screen momentarily, then jump directly to the second song.

Are others having this problem?

[motti]

Originally posted by schwa:
I have a 10GB iPod. Since I've had it, I've had the nagging problem of it randomly skipping the first song it plays at any given time. The song info will be on the screen momentarily, then jump directly to the second song.

Are others having this problem?

does this happen with a specific track? how was it encoded, rate, vbr?
i sometimes have this. i reencode the track and then the problem is gone.

[schwa]

Originally posted by motti:


does this happen with a specific track? how was it encoded, rate, vbr?
i sometimes have this. i reencode the track and then the problem is gone.

It pretty much happens across the board, whether it's a CD I encode in iTunes (I record at 160kps) or a track that, uh, somehow showed up on my hard drive .

It's strictly a 1st-position problem, because I have tracks in the middle of albums that are fine, but if they're the first song I play, it's a crap shoot.

[motti]

Originally posted by schwa:


It pretty much happens across the board, whether it's a CD I encode in iTunes (I record at 160kps) or a track that, uh, somehow showed up on my hard drive .

It's strictly a 1st-position problem, because I have tracks in the middle of albums that are fine, but if they're the first song I play, it's a crap shoot.

how about reformatting your ipod and loading 1.1 and then 1.2. or you could first delete only the tracks, then put only one song on it. i don't think it's a hardware based problem, but if it is send it back for repair.

[beverson]

Mine does this sometimes as well. But not every time. And not only with certain tracks (same track may or may not see a problem from one instance to another -- many "track 1s" have exhibited this problem).

Kind of annoying, but hadn't ever thought it was a big enough deal to get it looked at. Perhaps I will now.

[Moosecat]

... But I'm too lazy to do anything about it. (I can just press the back arrow to go back to the first song.) It happens maybe once in every three or four startups...

[Kenneth]

I have this problem as well on my iPod 10GB w/remote. I encoded the song files to 160kps (Highest VBR) or 192kps (Highest VBR) on iTunes 3. After the song skipped, I "rewind" the song and listen again on the iPod but it did not skip on the second time. The file stored on my Mac didn't skip at all. It's kind of a bummer.

[PCTek]

Sounds like it's just the skip protection lagging a little.

The first few moments there is no skip protection, it's reading directly from the drive. Then the skip protection kicks in.

[FXWizard]

I've had this problem from time to time but as far as I can tell, it's because my finger usually hits the edge of the scroll wheel while I'm trying to press the PLAY button.