Song Skipping

[Doomseed]

Hello,
A few months back I bought a 4th gen 20gig iPod, put all my music on it from my PC, and started listening. It worked fine for a couple months, but occasionaly when I clicked on a song to listen to it, it would skip to the next song in the playlist. It wasn't too bad at first, just happening once in a while.

Recently, the problem became a lot worse, sometimes skipping to the next song 75% of the time.

I formatted my iPod, and put all my music back on. It isn't as bad as it was just before the format, but still skips to the next song once in a while.

So I was just wondering if anyone has had the same kind of problem, if there is a fix, or if my iPod is just faulty. Thanks in advance for any help. :)

PS. I apologise if this has already been posted before.

[honeybee1236]

Welcome. First, make sure the songs play in iTunes before transferring to the iPod.

See this thread:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61018
and see this thread here
http://forums.ipodlounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54021

[Doomseed]

OK, thanks a lot for those links, but now I am having another problem: My iPod will not mount, charge, turn on, dnything. It seems dead. It just went this way last night. Very strange...

[honeybee1236]

Try connecting it to an outlet and letting it charge up then reset it.

[Doomseed]

I would, but when I plug it in to an outlet, nothing happens...It's 'dead', as I said. I've tried 2 chargers and multiple outlets.

[honeybee1236]

Then I suggest to contact Apple & send it in for repair. It must be the battery.

[Doomseed]

OK, thanks a lot for your help, honeybee. :)

I guess this thread can be locked or whatever, it's no longer really needed.