Hello, I recently got a 5.5g 80GB iPod Video and it's been working great with MC12 and it was even preloaded with the Windows firmware out of the box (version 1.2). Out of the list in the sticky, I picked mine out (A450, V9R).
Anyway, it was mostly working well since it arrived a few days ago, but suddenly, a few seconds after a song, it went silent. I didn't notice for several seconds, but it had reset itself. I went back into my playlist and found the last song that played and played the one after it, then it reset again. The song was Help Me, Rhonda from The Beach Boys album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). Technically, it was the early version of the song, spelled Ronda, but I spelled it Rhonda so it'll be counted as a duplicate for my MC smartlists. Anyway...
The first thing that stood out to me about what was different about the file was that it was encoded from a mono wav file. The CD was mono, but it rips to stereo. I use an audio editing program to zoom in and determine whether the left and right channels are identical, and if they are, I convert it to a mono track to save space and encoding time. I then encode with MC's LAME plugin at VBR extreme (non-fast).
I tried a song from Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, which is also mono, but at 128kbps encoded with L3enc ages ago. It played fine.
So, I'm wondering what's up with my iPod. Is it MC? Is this an unaddressed issue that Apple needs to know about? My MC about says 12.0.94, but it downloaded some sort of update a few days ago, it just doesn't reflect on the About window.