[dmanflynn]

Hello ive got a ipod video that i bought a few years back (right before they came out with the 80 gigs) and ive never had any problems with it before. But all of a sudden it wouldnt play audio anymore. It would show it was playing, timer ran right but no music and occasionaly youd get a high pitched electronic sound through the head phones. the noise never lasted hardly a second. Ive tried resyncing it, syncing it with another computer, wiggling the head phone jack (no difference), restoring it, updating it then restoring it and to no avail. Help me out here guys, could it be the head phone jack is just shot? Because it doesnt sound like a software problem i dont think, other wise it wouldnt make the quick screech would it?

[guy2]

I had something similar happen to my 30g ,every time it would stop playing randomly in the middle of songs intill i played with the jack a little and it would play intill it was moved again.

The ipod has this function the stops it from playing if the jack is disconnected even if it's just a fraction of a sec ,i thought mine was broke but it was just dirty from age. It sounds like you have the same problem i did but worse because it's so bad you think it's really broken but it's just really dirty inside ,you should carefully clean your female jack that's what i did. I used a Q tip and 2 drops of rubbing alcohol ,ripe some of the fuzz of the tip in till you can get it to fit tightly to the walls of your inner jack and twist out the junk over and over dont use the same side all the time unless you want fuzz stuck in your ipod.

You will be supprized at all the crap that collects in that little hole over time ,i was
,if that doesn't work try different head phones and rebooting the special way.

the ipod really is a diabolical device isn't it?

good luck