iTunes ?

So this is more of an iPod question than iTunes, but maybe someone has had a similar problem. Lately my iPod (160 GB classic) has developed a twitch where, every so often, it will just pause during playback. Not pause the unit itself, but it'll be playing a song then seemingly freeze up for 4-5 seconds and continue with the song. Doesn't happen frequently, but its pretty annoying when it does. It feels like the hard drive is just struggling to keep up and getting kind of sluggish. I figured resetting the unit might help, and it might have, since the clickwheel response time vastly improved. But the weird pause issue seems to continue.

Mine does that too (also iPod classic 160 gb -- but only about 95 gbs on it so far)

In my case the pause is less severe, just a half second or so.

Does it pause on all types of files? E.g., MP3, AAC, ALC, FairPlay, etc.

common problem mine does that too maybe once per hour o use. no known fix for it unfortunately.

Smack the shit out of it. hold it with the buttons against your palm and smack it as hard as you can on your other hand or leg. Sometimes this works. Seriously. There's even a website called Spank My Pod or something.

I don't the the hard drive is the issue, since the iPod should be caching songs to memory before they're played.

How long are the tracks you're playing? I've heard of iPods having issues with very large files.

Beyond resetting the unit, try reformatting/restoring it as well. That should rule out any software problem.

i accidentally loaded some large wavs onto my ipod and if i try to play one it just turns off immediately

Smack the shit out of it. hold it with the buttons against your palm and smack it as hard as you can on your other hand or leg. Sometimes this works. Seriously. There's even a website called Spank My Pod or something.

If it's a disk-based iPod, then all this is going to do is cause the platter-reading head to crash. Talk about shortening the lifespan of yr iPod!

Yeah, I can't see the wisdom in smacking a tiny hard drive around...

Can't believe anyone would advise someone to smash an iPod, especially to fix an undiagnosed problem. What a stupid piece of advice.

Any other AVG users get slammed with the false Trojan warning upon opening iTunes today/tonight? If you do, DON'T remove the threat. Open AVG, go into the Exceptions Manager and add the path for "Program Files/iTunes" and close all the windows, iTunes should open just fine after that.

I think iTunes just broke my optical drive. I was using it to burn a CD, when all of a sudden it just stopped, gave the doodly-beep "all done" sound, and now Shit Is Fucked Up- I can open the disc in windows explorer (where I see it only burned the first track), but iTunes won't recognize that there's a disc in the drive at all, and I can't eject it, either with the actual button or through iTunes or explorer.

Has anyone tried out Mojo, the file sharing through iTunes program? Very curious about it.

I think iTunes just broke my optical drive. I was using it to burn a CD, when all of a sudden it just stopped, gave the doodly-beep "all done" sound, and now Shit Is Fucked Up- I can open the disc in windows explorer (where I see it only burned the first track), but iTunes won't recognize that there's a disc in the drive at all, and I can't eject it, either with the actual button or through iTunes or explorer.

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I had exactly the same situation last week. Eventually, I managed to eject the CD during booting.

I had to disconnect and reconnect my drive, which now seems to be working just fine.

Not only did they weirdly give everything in iTunes 9 a paler look (like changing the cover grid view background color to white, and the sidebar color a lighter shade of blue) but Cover Flow and other text has been changed to Helvetica? Huh?

On my Mac, it now looks more like the PC version did last I saw it. Not sure if you're talking about the PC version.

Yeah, I'm referring to the Mac version.

The fade on the top bar makes it looks kinda cheap. As does the volume bar being colored in. The new playlist icons are snazzy, though.

iPhone is Helvetica, is probably why

shit looks like itunes 2

Are Coverflow and Grid views any less crash-prone?

There was a serious helvetica conflict in Leopard that has apparently been fixed in Snow Leopard and which I assume is related to the font shift in iTunes.

I never had crash problems with Coverflow and Grid, so I don't know... but damn Helvetica just looks way too "serious" for iTunes. Probably right about unifying the iTunes/iPhone look, which is stupid, because my monitor can look better and different than what's suitable for the iPod screen.

Yeah, kinda dumb. Apple's been Helvetifying iPhoto and a few other apps for a while now, too.

You're all fontgeeking while I'm adding artist syncs to my iPhone instead of just playlists. DWEEBS.

i have my entire library on random right now and itunes is HEAVILY favoring xmas songs, it's eeeeeeeerie

Revive!

I guess this is more of an mp3 question and not just iTunes, but...

This is driving me nuts. Some of my mp3s are loud. Some of my mp3s are soft. Is there any way to keep from having to adjust the volume after every single goddamn song starts? LEVEL THIS SHIT!!

replaygain

preferences -> playback -> click 'sound check' works too

I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I double-clicked on something or other and now I have a master 'Artist' list showing up on my iTunes and I have no idea how to get rid of it. I'm talking about the 'Artist' column on the left of the screenshot here. Any ideas on how to make this go away? The usual right click to sort column options isn't applicable to this one for some reason.

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/Screenshot2010-04-02at23101PM.png

Command+B

See also View > Column Browser

Ah, thanks! I figured it would be something easy like that.

has anyone else noticed iTunes selling a bunch of popular indie records at $7.99? presumably to compete with Amazon mp3 . . .

Has anyone else noticed iTunes crashing my computer every time it tries to perform more than one operation at a time? Presumably to make me buy a new computer...

Nah that's just iTunes for ya. It's always kind of like that. I mean, it doesn't even have the ability to let you look at other playlists while a track in another playlist is paused...

why has itunes started randomly deleting my music? a load of carl craig the other day and now all of yearbook1? what a fucking hassle, how do i stop this ffs?

Are they getting the exclamation point or are they just vanishing altogether?

exclamation point and when i look for them in my folders they're nowhere to be found, just a few things but who knows really

My iTunes is messed up. No way have I listened to the aeroplane remix of baby can't stop 337 times. Which is a shame cuz I like to keep accurate track of these things.

my older version of itunes works okay, but these types of problems are precisely why i won't upgrade to the new version of itunes. leave well enough alone.

After restoring from a backup, it looks like I'm missing about 1/4 of the tracks from the Mute Audio Documents box, completely at random. I am not looking forward to reripping that thing.

Really really really wish people would stop tagging retail versions of albums with "(Album Version)" on every damned song. In the past week I've had to go back re-edit every track on the Against Me! and Janelle Monae albums.

Downloads from Amazon are particularly bad with that, for whatever reason.

Yeah, I hate that too. Haven't seen any other retailers besides Amazon that do it.

I might as well get a fucking discman considering the completely batshit ways people tag rap albums.

That shit where every artist is different because they list it by every guest on the track? Why did that start?

^drives me insane. put features in the title field ffs.

why has itunes started randomly deleting my music? a load of carl craig the other day and now all of yearbook1? what a fucking hassle, how do i stop this ffs?

Happens to me lots. You probably moved the folder iTunes accesses your mp3 files from in actual Windows Explorer.