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Old 13-05-2008, 04:16 PM
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What's wrong? iPod Mini Skipping
My beloved iPod Mini, which has been in use essentially daily for 3 years now skipped and went to the next song today.

I thought I might have jarred it or something so replayed the song, skipped to the next song in the exact same place again.

It hasn't been synced with anything recently, and I haven't had the problem with it before when I have been listening to the same song...

Any ideas on what's wrong with it? Is it on the way out?
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Old 13-05-2008, 04:23 PM
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I found this somewhere:

Try this procedure. Uncheck the songs that are skipping (it's usually all of the songs for one artist on my iPod).

Then sync it. Then check them again. Then sync it. This forces the songs to be rewritten to the iPod.
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Old 13-05-2008, 04:50 PM
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or if it's slightly random, restore the iPod (using the restore button in iTunes next to the "check for updates" button (good idea also), then resync everything so all data gets rewritten to the iPod and any conflicts can be resolved (hopefully).
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Old 13-05-2008, 04:56 PM
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my iPod 4G (roughly the same age) died not long ago with the same symptoms.
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Old 13-05-2008, 06:23 PM
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my iPod 4G (roughly the same age) died not long ago with the same symptoms.
Ah.. sheet...

Oh well... how long I get out of it...
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Old 13-05-2008, 06:30 PM
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If you're feeling adventurous, you can replace your Mini's HDD with a CompactFlash card (get a 16GB one!)
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Old 13-05-2008, 06:39 PM
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If you're feeling adventurous, you can replace your Mini's HDD with a CompactFlash card (get a 16GB one!)
Got a link for that sort of shenanigans?
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Old 13-05-2008, 06:48 PM
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turn your iPod mini into a flash based iPod :: projects :: geek technique

For the record, my 4G iPod had the same problem last year. I fixed it by formatting it in Windows (yeah, standard Windows format) and then restoring it in iTunes. One year later it still hasn't skipped a beat.
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