Fifth Gen 80 Gig iPod Playback Problem

About 4 weeks ago, I bought myself a nice new 80 gig iPod, fifth gen or whatever the newest one is, and it's been excellent. But sometimes I'll be listening to it and I'll have it on "Shuffle Songs" mode and when it comes to a song(It could be any random song, so I know it's not a particular song) it will sometimes freeze up while trying to play it. I'm thinking the problem could be because I rip my songs at 320kbps, so it's pretty well the highest quality around and so most song files are 10MB and up. This problem seems to only happen when it's on shuffle, and when it does happen, I usually restart my iPod, but I noticed one time, I just pressed a bunch of buttons and a few minutes later it played the song just fine. I'm not quite sure what the problem is, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Fixed it myself.

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