degrading sound

[vitrophyre]

Hello, I have a ipod mini 2ng gen with a 16 Gb compact flash card. Not sure how long its been since I converted it but it has been a few years. Many songs are appearing to skip ahead when played. There are no "dead" spots, just skipping. Comparing the size and time stamps of the songs to the original copies on the computer shows no difference, however if I run diff I get:

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Binary files 01 Radio Song.ogg and /home/matt/Music/REM/Out Of Time/01 Radio Song.ogg differ

If I play the song on the ipod using the command line on the computer I get a whole bunch of these:

[codeIn:16.2% 00:00:41.42 [00:03:33.95] Out:1.99M [ =====|====- ] Hd:1.8 Clip:0    play WARN vorbis: Warning: hole in stream; probably harmless][/code]

I can copy the original back over and then diff shows no difference and the song plays.

Does this mean my compact flash card is shot? Time to get a new card? I don't even know if I could still install the original ipod s/w on there or not.

Thanks.

[gevaerts]

Does this mean my compact flash card is shot? Time to get a new card?

Could be, but I'd say the more likely cause is that you have filesystem corruption, possibly due to having unplugged the player in an unsafe way a few times.