Freezing While Syncing

So last night I created twon knew mp3 tracks out of garageband. I exported one into my itunes library and synced and everything worked fine. Five minutes later I attempt to do the exact same thing and when I hit Sync I get the spinning beachball and Itunes freezes so that I have to forcequit. This now happens everytime I have tried to sync. Is there anyway to solve this problem? I have restarted every device multiple times, and re-signed into my Apple account on both devices. Thanks for the help!

You should do a Restore on the iPod using iTunes.
Restoring iPod to factory settings - Apple Support
If the Restore is successful, trying syncing your iTunes library again. Hopefully, it will complete without error. If iTunes "freezes" again, the iPod's hard drive may be faulty, and it causes a problem when iTunes tries to write to a particular portion of the hard drive's media.

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