Is it just me or are I-Pods just a little bit shit?

Mine refuses to play certain albums, albums it happily played before. I've tried erasing, rebooting, reloading and retarding and nothing helps.

I'm about ready to brush the dust of my Sony sport walkman.

Shiney does not always equal good.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:36, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I love my knock off I got from tiny deal
and my 2gb zen stone that I nicked from my baby brother. Never refuses to play anything.
( Peej, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:38, Reply)

Well bully for you!

My Rio was amazing, tiny, easy to use, great battery it's justa shame that they went bust.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:39, Reply)

+1 for Creative Zen.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:41, Reply)

I hate iPods iPhones and any apple product
all because Steve Jobs, smug smug face
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:43, Reply)

I've got an ipod shuffle
it's fucking brilliant, but that's because it's really really small, and because it has a random fill feature it means I listen to stuff in my collection that otherwise gets overlooked
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:45, Reply)

I have this problem too
the only solution is to either re-rip the album, or re-encode the mp3 (as in covert to wav then back to mp3).

Obviously re-ripping the album is the preferred method. Personally I always use EAC to rip stuff. Guarantees a skip free rip.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:49, Reply)

Not leastly
because iTunes software takes over your computer.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:52, Reply)

I was blinded by storage

I had dreams of days or even weeks of music in my pocket.

And now I can't be bothered to fill it as half of it won't play!

Damn you Jobs, damn you to hell!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:54, Reply)

@ Al

Albums from CD seem to be fine it's filthy internet music that works and then doesn't work.

I miss Fleet Foxes on my moring commute!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 11:55, Reply)

Hmmmmmm
Don't know about that then. Have you tried re-encoding them? Get DBpoweramp to covert them back to .wav then drop them into EAC to re-encode them as .mp3

It's not the most elegant of solutions, but it's easier than re-downloading all your music again.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 12:06, Reply)

A little bit shit?
Slight understatement...

Style over substance as with everything Apple make. Looks shiny and nice but comes with the usual built in 367 day self destruct feature.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 12:21, Reply)

You could try
re-encoding them as AAC I think that may work. You can do it in iTunes BTW.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 12:36, Reply)

Re-encoding an already compressed file will make it sound really nasty though
As you're going through two stages of lossy compression...

What format are the files that it won't play?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 12:43, Reply)

It's all MP3

I may have to sacrifice some (more) quality.

*Sighs*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 13:54, Reply)

There's no reason it shouldn't play mp3s though...
There's no DRM layer in the codec so it can't be anything like that...

I was expecting you to say some weird and wonderful format, but anything should play mp3s even if they're VBR & joint stereo (which is about as weird as mp3 gets)

Can you play them OK on a computer? Sounds like your iPod's acting up, might be time for a reformat or something, I don't know. I don't know a great deal about iPods apart from the fact they're shit. And they always break.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 13:57, Reply)

sansa e250s
are foreveeeer.......... (Ipod competitor btw)
(venort apparently exists, Sat 6 Dec 2008, 16:39, Reply)