iPhone 4s randomly skips song

[bowlman23]

Hi everyone,

I did a search for this, but couldn't find a concrete answer. My iPhone randomly skips tracks and will never let me play them - it just moves on to the next playable song. I'm running iOS 5.0.1, have my music set to manage manually, and have transferred purchases and sync'd with iTunes which fixed my problem last time.

It has nothing to do with shake to shuffle because the iPhone is laying flat when i switch tracks. I think I have iTunes 10.5.2.

Any ideas on how to get this working? Thanks!

 

[GoCubsGo]

This has happened on every single iPhone I've owned. Most people would tell me to turn shake to shuffle off. This was the issue at least once. Otherwise, I've had to remove the file from the phone, re-sync, then add the file back to my list in iTunes, re-sync again and usually that fixes the issue. It has only happened on tracks imported from my CD collection. Also, someone said it could be an earphone issue but this would happen docked in a speaker system that was sold by Apple made by Altec.

 

[bowlman23]

This has happened on every single iPhone I've owned. Most people would tell me to turn shake to shuffle off. This was the issue at least once. Otherwise, I've had to remove the file from the phone, re-sync, then add the file back to my list in iTunes, re-sync again and usually that fixes the issue. It has only happened on tracks imported from my CD collection. Also, someone said it could be an earphone issue but this would happen docked in a speaker system that was sold by Apple made by Altec.

I'll try turning Shake to Shuffle off, but all the songs I'm having issues with, I purchased from iTunes. It's so strange and insanely frustrating.

 

[GoCubsGo]

I must have misread about you purchasing from iTunes. For me, I equated it to some weird BS with imported music from CDs and Apple being finicky.

 

[normanbates]

You haven't got shuffle on have you?

 

[bowlman23]

You haven't got shuffle on have you?

Yes, the playlist is on shuffle. But even when i just try to play the song direct, it won't play. It just stays at 0:00.

 

[bowlman23]

Turned off shake to shuffle and still have the same issues. Any ideas?

 

[treef]

Make sure you don't have the track set to "remember playback position". You can check by clicking the track in iTunes - command i - options. I had a few songs that would always skip because it was playing them from one second from the end.