After a few weeks of thinking there was something wrong with my little iPod Shuffle, I found out that in shuffle-mode, the iPod Shuffle can’t/wont play back certain kinds of audio files.
Just change it back to non-shuffle and the Podcasts will play fine!
From support.apple.com:
When iPod shuffle is set to shuffle songs it will play all the audio files on iPod shuffle that are not audiobooks. Podcasts of type .m4b or AAC will not play on iPod shuffle when it is in shuffle mode, which is the intended behavior, although a podcast of type .mp3 or .wav may play while in shuffle mode. To play an audiobook or podcast that is on iPod shuffle, set the switch on iPod shuffle to play in order.
Wow. All this heartache over one tiny little switch switched to the wrong position.
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Emmah wrote on March 12th, 2009 12:07 pm :
OMG thank you so much for posting this. i thought mine was broken too !!!!!
nats wrote on April 6th, 2009 9:11 pm :
thanks for the post, however my audiobooks wont play when not on shuffle! Have played 1 audiobook once, now it doesnt play at all? flashed green and yellow???
Carmen wrote on March 16th, 2012 6:23 pm :
OMG!!! Thank you so much for posting this!! I kept googling the issue and all the latest answers said that there was nothing i could do. Some ppl were even told by apple geeks to get a new ipod or keep the shuffle but know that it would only play songs. Wow! Such a simple solution!!
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