General iPod question

[ksmith]

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?

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

It sounds like there is a fault on the harddrive. You can take it in to an Apple Store where they will run diagnostics on it for free, that way you can tell what you're dealing with. They'll also tell you what the trade in value is (much more reasonable than I expected).

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks--I may be headed to the Northbrook store this weekend. The prices of new Classics is lower than what I paid for the Video model.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that is what mine did before the hard drive died. Is it also making noise? or a clicking sound?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

No noise. The songs just stop. At one point yesterday, it wouldn't stay turned off when I turned it off, but kept coming back on by itself.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Er...it's haunted?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Poltergeists.

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Might be worth going through Apple's troubleshooting steps (http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/ipod5gen/) for that model (I think I got the right one) before taking it in. The last step is restoring it, which often clears up mysterious bugs.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I was going to check and see if there was a way to wipe-and-start-over. Thanks for the link!