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Does the Ipod skip?
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No, the iPod does not skip. Unless it has a hardware problem of some kind, all iPods play music just fine.
no problems here
i have not had any problems and im on my third ipod, no skipping no problems no nothing.
i have not had any problems and im on my third ipod, no skipping no problems no nothing.
If it's skipping, then it's indicative of a harddrive problem. You should look your friend square i the face and say: "If they all had a problem with skipping after 20 minutes, how could Apple have sold hundreds of millions of them?". And then punch him/her right in the nose. Twice.
It's not a kind of skipping, but the music loaded in the ram after 20 minutes is played and the ipod has to reload new music in the ram. Older ipods used to have this problem, and this was discussed a lot. I don't know about newer ipods. In real life you hardly notice it. This takes maybe a second or two longer between numbers, also had it a couple of times in numbers in my 2G 20GB ipod.
i've got a 2+ years old iPod 20GB, i've been riding my bike with it, doing all sorts of things, and i've never had it skip on me. it's fine, nothing to worry about.
Very, very, very rare defect
I had one of those iPods that randomly jumped from one song to another even while in the middle of a song. You might consider this skipping. I contacted Apple support and they told me it was a defect in the iPod somewhere. The people in Apple Support sent me a new one right away. We're talking a 3-day turnaround. They sent me an overnight printable shipping label. I shipped it and they shipped the replacement the next day! Awesome!
By the way, the same iPod that had the problem I described above was the 5th Generation video and it also had trouble loading the data into the memory card. Sometimes the HD woudn't spin up at all. There was a weird defect with the internal processing that would tell it when to spin up the HD to load data into the memory card.
In general, iPods do not exhibit this behavior. I have the very first iPod (5GB), the 3rd Generation iPod, the 4th Generation iPod (40GB) and now the 5th Generation iPod 60GB video. They are all awesome and work beautifully.
I just wanted to mention that defects can happen, but they are very rare... especially when it comes to Apple. And have no fear, their replacement policy and support is amazing.
Take Care,
Quark
I had one of those iPods that randomly jumped from one song to another even while in the middle of a song. You might consider this skipping. I contacted Apple support and they told me it was a defect in the iPod somewhere. The people in Apple Support sent me a new one right away. We're talking a 3-day turnaround. They sent me an overnight printable shipping label. I shipped it and they shipped the replacement the next day! Awesome!
By the way, the same iPod that had the problem I described above was the 5th Generation video and it also had trouble loading the data into the memory card. Sometimes the HD woudn't spin up at all. There was a weird defect with the internal processing that would tell it when to spin up the HD to load data into the memory card.
In general, iPods do not exhibit this behavior. I have the very first iPod (5GB), the 3rd Generation iPod, the 4th Generation iPod (40GB) and now the 5th Generation iPod 60GB video. They are all awesome and work beautifully.
I just wanted to mention that defects can happen, but they are very rare... especially when it comes to Apple. And have no fear, their replacement policy and support is amazing.
Take Care,
Quark
