Ipod moves to next song after 40-50 seconds

[foxdie200x]

Im having a problem with my iPod. 3 of my songs stop playing(haven't tested all songs yet), it would play for about 50seconds then it would move to the next song When i go back to the song and forward it, it would play continuously. Could this be just the song i downloaded to my itunes? but the music play okay in my itunes. Is there a problem with my ipod. Help...

[michaelkenji]

what model is your iPod? have you tried resetting it?

[PatrickGaerlan]

It could be the songs. This used to happen with my old 3G iPod. 2 songs bought from the iTunes Store would stop at a certain time whenever I play them, the iPod would just skip to the next song as soon as it reached a certain point in the "defective" songs. The songs play without any problems in iTunes though. My new iPods also didn't have any problems playing those songs.

I never did find out what was wrong, Apple even let me download the songs again but my old iPod still had trouble playing them. I can actually fast forward the certain point in the song and it would continue playing. I guess there's something with the encoding that my old iPod couldn't handle.

EDIT: Just an idea, maybe you can try burning those songs to a CD then re-ripping them back into iTunes. If the songs aren't DRMed, you can also use ffmpegX to transcode them to MP3 or AAC.

[freelancer]

This happened to me with my nano as well, also just with protected AACs. I just reset my nano and everything played fine after that. No problems to this day.

[Skint]

I suggest it use the song converter on you Itunes just highlight the 2 songs then select convert selection to ACC.

It happened to me also after conversion no problems after that cheers.

[foxdie200x]

It could be the songs. This used to happen with my old 3G iPod. 2 songs bought from the iTunes Store would stop at a certain time whenever I play them, the iPod

That's exactly what's happening with my iPod 3G. all other songs plays fine but just with this 3 song. ill try the suggestion above to burn it then rip it. and i'll also try ffmpegx. This would really be the song problem. question answered. Thanks a bunch...

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[xtine]

I also have the same problem, only it's happening in reverse... the song plays ok on my 5.5G iPod Video but it skips to the next song after a while on my iPhone and my sister's iPod Touch.

I converted the mp3 to AAC and it played from start to finish...is there a solution other than converting though?

[PatrickGaerlan]

I converted the mp3 to AAC and it played from start to finish...is there a solution other than converting though?

Probably not, short of Apple fixing it in an updated iPod firmware. As an end-user, I think the only option now is to transcode (re-convert) the songs to a "cleaner" file.

[iJamie]

Am experiencing the same thing too. I converted the whole OST of Step Up 2 to mp3, and for some weird reason or another, Low stops playing after 35 seconds. I tested my file in my iTunes, but it played the whole song. Is my iPod allegeric to Low?