I spoke too soon
I have one song from the iTunes store. I synced my iPod and all seemed to go well. After the sync was done, the list of songs on my iPod appeared in the window, as usual. My iTMS song was there, all looked fine.
But when I undocked the iPod and plugged in my headphones, the AAC song would not play. I navigated to it through Artists (Ataris) > Album ("So Long, Astoria") > Song Name ("The Boys of Summer") and tapped the center button. The song appears as if it will play, then after a split second, it jumps back to the previous screen. Other songs (mp3) play fine.
The song plays fine within MC (from the library). It also plays in MC off of the iPod while the iPod is docked. It is a 3G iPod, 30 gig, using software 2.1.
** EDIT ** One potential complication: when I first imported the song into MC, it thought it was a video file. I changed that. Since it synced fine (a video file wouldn't sync with the iPod, right?), I figured that it was not a problem, but I thought I should include it here.
Thanks,
crow
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