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ipod or itunes? Problems! Help!!
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<blockquote data-quote="D3v1L80Y" data-source="post: 145583" data-attributes="member: 2960"><p>That doesn't mean that they could not be corrupted now. Your description sounds like the HD could be failing. </p><p>More likely though, is that there is a caching problem with your iPod. What I mean is, if you just skip, skip, skip and skip til you hear a song you want to hear...you are really taxing the cache. The iPod's cache can hold about 30 MB. This means it can store roughly about 5-7 songs ahead. By doing this, the iPod's HD doesn't have to work as hard. If you constantly skip through your songs, this will cause the HD to work harder because the cache is being constantly being filled and dumped at a rapid pace, rather than playing out what has been stored. The end result of this is you will eventually encounter skipping. Now this could happen as a result of time or heavy use as well, even if you don't skip through tracks purposely.</p><p>Two things you can do to help prevent skipping:</p><p></p><p>1.)I would suggest setting up playlists if you haven't already. So set up a playlist and let it play. Don't skip through the list or you will run into the same caching problems.</p><p></p><p>2.)Make sure you compress your song files. I would recommend the AAC format at around 128/kbs. This way you can fit more songs into the cache and leave less work for the HD to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As far as the songs that are already skipping, the files may be damaged now. You may want to restore the iPod to factory settings and then reload the music from a uncorrupted file.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983" target="_blank">Restoring iPod to Factory Settings</a></p><p>__________________</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D3v1L80Y, post: 145583, member: 2960"] That doesn't mean that they could not be corrupted now. Your description sounds like the HD could be failing. More likely though, is that there is a caching problem with your iPod. What I mean is, if you just skip, skip, skip and skip til you hear a song you want to hear...you are really taxing the cache. The iPod's cache can hold about 30 MB. This means it can store roughly about 5-7 songs ahead. By doing this, the iPod's HD doesn't have to work as hard. If you constantly skip through your songs, this will cause the HD to work harder because the cache is being constantly being filled and dumped at a rapid pace, rather than playing out what has been stored. The end result of this is you will eventually encounter skipping. Now this could happen as a result of time or heavy use as well, even if you don't skip through tracks purposely. Two things you can do to help prevent skipping: 1.)I would suggest setting up playlists if you haven't already. So set up a playlist and let it play. Don't skip through the list or you will run into the same caching problems. 2.)Make sure you compress your song files. I would recommend the AAC format at around 128/kbs. This way you can fit more songs into the cache and leave less work for the HD to do. As far as the songs that are already skipping, the files may be damaged now. You may want to restore the iPod to factory settings and then reload the music from a uncorrupted file. [url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983]Restoring iPod to Factory Settings[/url] __________________ [/QUOTE]
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