[Gtkpod-questions] songs load but won't play on IPod Shuffle with gtkpod

[Steve C. <ste...@co...>]

I am running gtkpod under RHEL4 for an Ipod Shuffle. This IPod Shuffle 
was previosuly installed and loaded using ITunes from Windows.

I've got the gtkpod installed and it comes up correctly. It can read the 
contents of the IPOD and imports them into a database. Then I ripped a 
CD using GRIP and encoding the tracks as MP3 (using lame). I import 
these songs into the gtkpod database, and synch it back to the IPOD. 
Although the songs do import to the IPOD (and show up on subsequent 
reads of the the IPOD by GTKPOD), the IPOD WILL NOT PLAY THEM. Only the 
songs originally downloaded from the PC via ITunes will play.

Can someone explain what is going on here and how to fix it?

Thank you very much.

Steve Cohen