ok so i updates everything seemed fine... suddenly my ipod restarts but as it was on random i had no idea where... so i put ir on random again... after a week or so i have now worked out when it is doing it. i rip most of my music from cds but then some i erm.... buy *coughdownloadcough* online. these are the ones that are giving me trouble... it either just skips through them or restarts the ipod. this is very annoying. is there a solution. im guessin it would be to somehow install v1.1.2 on it again as it was but im pretty sure it woudnt let me do that and im also guessing apple has taken the download down.... :S please help
The files being downloaded files shouldn't matter. In iTunes if you try and play the song what happens? If the exclamation point appears then the file is misplaced and should be able to be fixed by just locating the file again, which is why it may not really be on your iPod. And the files arn't .wma correct? Also! Apple doesn't take down the downloads for the updaters. Once it is downloaded to your computer you should have a permanent copy as well, unless of course you deleted it. In iTunes [if you are using 7.0] if you plug in your iPod, select it, then under the summary tab the option to 'Restore' should be availible.
I'm not sure if you read my edit or not because I did it at the same time you were posting. The problem is probably within your iPod and will be fixed almost certaintly if you restore it. Sometimes the information for certain songs gets 'misplaced' on the iPod and it can't find them so they just get skipped.
i tried restoring it. i had 2 reformat everything so i didnt have the previous updates and it would seem that they have changed the ipods files as i am not able 2 downgrade it at all even using ipod wizard. after hours of searching the internet i have found someone with the same problem and i think they are right in saying it is all songs that use "mono" channels. and it is just conicedence most of my downloaded music is now mono. so hopefully it is just a bug that will be fixed in the next update, but who knows how long that will be...
If you re-encode with iTunes either into MP3 or AAC again it would play if that was the case. You would lose some audio quality during the conversion however. Other firmwares can be found here: http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=7369 Although I'm not entirely sure what most of that post meant.
