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November 26, 2006
Peculiar Bug
My iPod is getting a little old (in digital terms — if it were a hammer, it would still be in its early years of usefulness), and the battery has lost a lot of its capacity, but I didn’t expect this:
Every now and then, the “shuffle” function will forget that it’s supposed to be shuffling by song, and will continue playing a particular performer’s songs until it runs out. You can fast-forward it through the supposedly-shuffled playlist, but if it falls into this while playing songs by a favorite performer, or an especially prolific act (such as the Magnetic Fields), it can take a great many button-pushes to get the shuffle function out of its rut.
Yes, I have checked, and the “shuffle” function is checked for “by song,” not by artist or album. Moreover, it doesn’t always get tracked for an artist even when I have multiple selections by that artist.
Worse things happen at sea, of course, but it’s an odd little nuisance of a bug.
Chris says:
Have you tried doing the "reset your iPod" thing from within iTunes? My first suspicion would be some sort of odd corruption in the firmware.
Posted by AKMA at November 26, 2006 07:42 AM | Threadorati
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