I have been really frustrated with my 160GB black iPod for the last several months. For some reason, whenever I changed the volume or searched through folders while a song was playing, the song would skip horribly, sounding clipped or just plain messed up until I stopped messing with the thing and left it alone. In the last few days, it started skipping even when I wasn’t touching it. I was bemoaning my iPod purchase. My 60GB iPod never did this. I already gave it to my wife and there is no way I can get it back now…

I searched the internet for any indication that someone else had this problem, but I came up empty. I was almost to the point of taking the thing in to one of the Apple Store “geniuses”, even though I make it a personal rule never to talk to anyone who calls them self a “genius”. Then this morning, after months of dealing with what I thought was a piece of crap iPod, I stumbled on the fix….

Restart the iPod. Press and hold the middle button and the menu button for 6 seconds.

Darn my fool brain! This is always the first course of action for any techno-problem. How could I have overlooked this???!!??!?!?

Anyway, the iPod is fixed and it took a total of 10 seconds. I’m glad I figured this out before I sold it on eBay.