iPod issue

"pclick - peeoo" "pclick - peeoo" "pclick - peeoo"

That's the sound my iPod keeps making whenever I switch menus and move around too fast. I swapped iPods out today and the new one did the exact same thing.

Now I googled this, and there are people who had problems, but none precisely like mine, and rarely on the same kind of iPod.

I can feel a little something click in the back of the iPod when it makes that noise. Sometimes it happens a whole lot in a row, sometimes it doesn't happen at all.

Is this something I should be worried about? It's not causing any problems with using the device so far, but it definitely does NOT sound natural. Could this be a product of all the "pilfered" music tracks I have on here? Most of it is legit albums but about 130 or so are pirated songs, and about two of them were homebrewed by random internet folk. Is it possible that a pirated song can cause this kind of glitch in an iPod? Because all the songs run just fine.

Except for "I Am... All of Me" by Crush 40. For some reason whenever I try to play that particular song on my iPod, both the old one and the new one, it skips right over the song and starts the next one on the list. It runs just fine in iTunes but not on my iPod. Why would this be happening?

pirated songs won't harm hardware lmao

it's probably just some stupid hardware/software issue or maybe you dropped it on accident or it was in your pocket and you slammed it into something on accident and what-not. Numerous things.

The clicking? thats the hardrive--it's fucked up.

Nouman beat me to it. Old Generation iPods had moving-part hard drives. i.e. spinning disks. They make clicky noises when they're broken (or sometimes, when they're not, but if it's frequent, yeah, broken).

Punch it a few times when it makes that sound until it stops.

Ipod gen2 running strong still in the camaro after having this issue.