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So, I've had my 160gb iPod for awhile, and it has basically worked fine for a while.
Occasionally, it skips, but I just said whatever, and let it be.
Anyway, today I listened to it frequently, and it started to take about 15 seconds to actually start a song that I picked. So eventually, I became tired of it.
I went to play one song, and it skipped it and the other tracks after it.
I had this problem before, but after converting them to .m4a they worked fine.
However, these songs were already .m4a, so there wasn't too much I could really do.
So, I decided to restart the iPod with the standard Hold on off, select-center button at at the same time thing.
And then I tried to turn it back on, and when I did, it informed me that I needed to restore the iPod.
It showed me a snazzy picture of the USB cable, and explained it to me in a few in a few other languages.
So, I plugged it into the computer to try and get around it, and it informed me that the iPod was in recovery mode?
I've never heard of this, and I ultimately have no idea what to do. I don't want to have to restore, but I guess I'm going to. I'd really like to know why it freaked out on me though.

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