I have a 3G iPod (15G) that has started functioning rather strangely.
It has long skipped the first song when I start playing a playlist. It displays the song information for a second, then shows the next song and starts playing. If I hit back, it goes back and plays the first song.
Recently, it started skipping lots of songs. It would sometimes skip three or four in a row. One time it skipped an entire album. The weird thing is that if I go back and keep trying to play a certain song, it will usually do so in one or two tries (but not always).
This has all the hallmarks of the beginnings of disk failure. It’s reading some bogus header information and deciding to skip the song, but when I keep reading it over and over, it gets the data right. Of course, it could also be other things. I tried resetting it to factory defaults and reloading all the tunes, and that seemed to help a bit, but not much.
It looks like replacing the hard drive is going to be around $100. Considering I could probably get $20 for it on eBay and buy an 80-gig for $300, I’m thinking that’s not really worth it. Any ideas?
