General iPod question

I have a 30GB video iPod, which is used to play music 99.9% of the time. It's a couple of years old--I'd need to dig out the Applecare agreement to see.

Anyway, it's been acting up for the past couple of days. Songs that had previously played without incident will stop dead. If I restart them, they will play for a few more seconds, sometimes a minute, then stop again.

When this happened yesterday, I rebooted the device a couple of times. It behaved fine last night during my run, and this morning during the drive in. This afternoon, it started stopping again. Two restarts later, it seems to have straightened out.

I'm wondering if this is just one of those things, or a sign that the hard drive is failing?

General iPod question

I have a 30GB video iPod, which is used to play music 99.9% of the time. It's a couple of years old--I'd need to dig out the Applecare agreement to see.

Anyway, it's been acting up for the past couple of days. Songs that had previously played without incident will stop dead. If I restart them, they will play for a few more seconds, sometimes a minute, then stop again.

When this happened yesterday, I rebooted the device a couple of times. It behaved fine last night during my run, and this morning during the drive in. This afternoon, it started stopping again. Two restarts later, it seems to have straightened out.

I'm wondering if this is just one of those things, or a sign that the hard drive is failing?

From somewhere in the distance

...the sound of a check being cut. That's the only explanation that I have for the fact that my old 4-cup coffeemaker has joined the iPod in the Let's Act Up parade. They heard the sound of funds headed in this direction.

I restored the iPod's factory settings, and am reloading the music now. If the problem is the hard drive, I hope it crops up over the weekend. Otherwise, it'll be next weekend before I can get to the nearest Apple Store to have it looked at, and I've become pretty dependent on it where running is concerned. Honestly, I don't know if I would've been able to accomplish what I have without "Bodyrock" blasting in my ear on a regular basis. "Push It". "Busy Child."

Laundry is being done. Vacuuming is a possibility. The glamour never stops.

Does anyone have an explanation for the fact that since I installed Leopard, the LJ Tags autofill no longer works?

From somewhere in the distance

...the sound of a check being cut. That's the only explanation that I have for the fact that my old 4-cup coffeemaker has joined the iPod in the Let's Act Up parade. They heard the sound of funds headed in this direction.

I restored the iPod's factory settings, and am reloading the music now. If the problem is the hard drive, I hope it crops up over the weekend. Otherwise, it'll be next weekend before I can get to the nearest Apple Store to have it looked at, and I've become pretty dependent on it where running is concerned. Honestly, I don't know if I would've been able to accomplish what I have without "Bodyrock" blasting in my ear on a regular basis. "Push It". "Busy Child."

Laundry is being done. Vacuuming is a possibility. The glamour never stops.

Does anyone have an explanation for the fact that since I installed Leopard, the LJ Tags autofill no longer works?