I recently posted about some problems I was having with random songs having the ends cut off early when played on the iPod. The only solution I had originally found was to re-encode the songs, which solved the problem. Another poster wrote that he had solved this problem by doing a full restore of the iPod, which subsequently worked for me as well.
However, after synching some new rips, I found that the problem had immediately popped up again. This time, rather than doing a full restore, I simply did a new MC9 format. This solved the problem as well, showing that a full restore was not needed. The problem is that I find myself needing to do a new format and full synch EVERY time I add songs to the iPod in order to guarantee that none of the songs cut off early. If I simply synch on top of the old songs, I find myself feeling undue tension as I listen to new songs, wondering if each new song will make it to the end, and finding that once in a while, they do not.
Given that the MC9 format is some sort of proprietary format, I'm wondering if there is an issue with the latest version of the iPod/firmware and MC9. I don't see too many references to this problem, but the only ones I DO see are on this forum -- i.e. from other MC9 users. I see similar issues on other forums, but none that are really the same.
Does anybody have any further information with this particular issue, where songs cut off early and just play silence for the rest of the track? As I said, re-encoding usually solves the issue, as does a new restore or new MC9 format.
Thanks for any help with this,
Larry