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Some of the music on my iPhone 4G 32Gig started skipping intermittently when I play it on the phone. These are mp3 files synch'd to the iPhone through iTunes from my Windows 7 laptop.

I have filled it to 28G.

The same song played back again at a later time does not skip but another one might.

What is going on here?

What do I do about this?

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  • Is this a problem when playing music from your computer?
    – Nathan Greenstein
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 23:21
  • @Nathan this happens when I am playing it on my iPhone
    – Raj More
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 0:00
  • Just to clarify, you mean the music stutters, but keeps playing on the same song? Can you tell me if your phone is jailbroken?
    – Ciaocibai
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 22:33
  • @IntuitionHQ It sounds like when a CD skips. My phone is not jailbroken.
    – Raj More
    Commented Jan 21, 2011 at 17:25

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Definitely sounds like its fragmentation-related.

I found a few sources, take with a grain-of-salt but it seems to back up the hypothesis.

My earlier post:

Edit: Thank you for the info.

Some additional info could help with this:

  • iPhone release (orig, 3g, 3gs etc...)
  • codec of audio: (mp3? apple lossless? aiff?...)

Without the additional info, my first hypothesis would be that its a memory issue. You might try killing some other apps (yes, I know they shouldn't be running, but there may be some related processing happening in the background.)

To take it to another extreme for testing purposes, do you have video clips you could try? If so, test them out and come back if there's any useful information gathered.

One last thing, I doubt its related but, how full is the storage on the iPhone?

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  • @mummey question edited to add info
    – Raj More
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 0:02
  • Playing video does not skip. The same song again has not skipped either.
    – Raj More
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 0:05
  • Interesting, about how far (in seconds) does it get before it starts skipping?
    – mummey
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 0:09
  • Both times it happened, it was toward the end of the song. Then I replayed the song.. no skipping!
    – Raj More
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 1:22
  • The song length long or short? (a thought that maybe its somehow being played back faster than it can be read into memory.)
    – mummey
    Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 1:29

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