Misty

Certain songs on my iPod cut out early. When it happens, the iPod freezes for a few seconds before moving on to the next song. After looking at a bunch of songs where this happens, they're all high bitrate VBR files - probably all produced by LAME, many bought from Bandcamp. Any suggestions on how to fix it? I've tried using Foobar2000 to add a VBR tag, and also tried using the vbrfix program.

Edit: I'm using a 5.5 generation iPod; was originally 80GB before I replaced the drive.

#iPod #ipod classic #ipods

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noah @noahtheduke1/29/2024, 2:16 AM

Can you convert to fixed bitrate aac or similar?

Misty @dog1/29/2024, 2:18 AM

Yeah, I'm trying the builtin "convert songs below 256kbps to 256kbps AAC" right now - maybe not the ideal solution, but it should work.

Matthew Cole @karobit1/29/2024, 2:33 AM

in the other direction, can you use ALAC files for those instead? for the bandcamp files at least, they shoukd have an ALAC download so you don’t have to do the conversion yourself.

meriamory @pastille1/29/2024, 3:03 AM

This happened to me when I Legally Downloaded some songs a while back. It wasn't too many of them, so I just re-exported them in Audacity and they work fine now. If it's the majority of your songs that'll probably take a while though.

shork @shork1/29/2024, 1:24 PM

I've had lossless files that were just too much for my iPods to handle, I use the reencoding feature for those, it's not like it takes long on a modern CPU

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