Purchased songs no longer playing on shuffle

I have continued to try and solve my suffle problems and every now and then, I am able to narrow my issue down further. My shuffle played fine until the end of October and I am still trying to get it to play!
The last thing I have noticed is that it no longer plays music that I have purchase from iTunes but it will play the music from my cds.I searched for this issue but had no luck. The only thing that I can think of that changed was when I downloaded new versions of iTunes and the latest iPod updater. I have tried to restore with older versions of iPod software but this does not fix the problem.
Any suggestions?

I am not sure if the problem is related to the Sony and BMG problem.
If the songs used to play on your iPod and then stopped - I would try restoring your iPod and then reloading a variety of music. If you still find that the music loaded from your cds play but your music that was purchased from iTunes does not play then I would take your iPod into an Apple store. I found after 2 months that I could not resolve the problem and that my iPod had to be replaced.

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