After playing 60-70 songs on shuffle battery life is almost all gone.

Well the subject says everything...
Basically after I play 60-70 songs on shuffle, the battery life is almost gone. (After being fully charged) I don`t know if this is part of the reason why it only plays that many songs, but I do turn my ipod on an off a few times. (About 4-5 times?) But I don`t think that`s a good enough reason for the battery to be so low after playing only about 3-4 hours. I don`t have any songs that go over 5 minutes and I don`t watch videos or put on the slideshow while playing music. And the only times I touch the click wheel is when I want to raise/lower the volume or skip to the next song. So I don`t know why it only plays for such a short time. Does anybody know why it`s doing that? And is there any way I can fix this?
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Try just letting your ipod play one song over and over, and see how long it lasts. If it still has the same problem, get the battery replaced.
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