I’m using a 2005 Apple PowerBook G4. Soon after I got it I imported a couple-hundred CDs into iTunes. Most of them are fine, but a few have skipping problems. I’ve uploaded other CDs since then, and they were fine. I decided to delete the tracks that were skipping (the whole CD’s worth), along with a couple of CDs I’d missed. Two of the three CDs I’d ‘missed’ earlier imported fine. Two that had skipping problems before are still skipping, even when turning error correction on. One other ‘missed’ CD has some skipping. The two CDs that I’d imported a few years ago are still skipping. None of the CDs were played often on a CD player, and do not have any visible imperfections. I tried copying one CD to my desktop and then moving them into iTunes. There’s some skipping on it, but not quite as bad as when I tried importing directly from the CD into iTunes. The one thing I haven’t tried is to upload them onto my 2001 iMac G3, and then transferring them to the PowerBook over the wireless network.
Does this sound like bad CDs, or is my PowerBook CD player failing?
Try CDs in other drives, and try other CDs in the suspect drive.
I ran into another problem. When I plug in my iPod Touch, it does not appear as a device.
If the CD works in other drives, it’s the drive. If other CDs work in that drive it’s probably the CD.
Time to get Exact Audio Copy and rip the CDs. It’s free and it’ll quickly tell you if the CDs are full of errors
I googled Exact Audio Copy, and unfortunately it only runs on Windows.
I had a customer with a very similar problem. It happened when he was trying to rip and play at the same time and was getting little bits of lag causing skippage in some recordings.
I was only ripping; not playing.
The larger problem at the moment is that the iPod isn’t showing up as a device on the desktop or in iTunes. It’s not charging from either USB port. I’ve reset it twice, and restarted the computer once.
This doesn’t relate directly to the OP’s problem, but I discovered a couple days ago that two songs transferred from LP record to Ipod had skips in them that are not on the record.
It took two re-recordings to get good versions without skips. Apparently the problem is in my Audacity software.
Just got off the phone with Apple. It took a while, but…
[ul][li]I held down the Home button and powered down.[/li][li]I held down the Home button and plugged the iPod into the computer. When it powered up I released the Home button. This begins the process of restoring the iPod to factory settings (and deleted the contents of the iPod).[/li][li]iTunes found the iPod and I accepted new software, then clicked Restore. Restore failed the first time, so…[/li][li]Leaving the iPod connected to the computer, I restarted the computer. iTunes started automatically and detected the iPod. I clicked Restore again.[/ul][/li]This restored the iPod and it is synching now. A good sign was seeing the battery image on the screen, showing that it was now charging.
I haven’t tried loading the CDs on the other machine to see if they don’t skip there, but I’ve got the larger problem of a non-detected, non-charging iPod fixed.