Help - ipod doesn't play songs but skips through them

My ipod suddenly started skipping through songs and that's all it does. It will not play music or video, just skips through it to the next one, and no album art is showing on anything. Does anyone have any advice or help?

Does your iPod do this with every song on it?
How long has this been happening?
Also, try playing the songs, then in the middle of a skipping session, press "pause" on it. Does the album art show then? If that's the case, then simply your iPod bogs up when doing all that skipping. If that's not the case, then the album art hasn't loaded correctly.
As for the skipping through everything, if you reset your iPod (I think that's what it's called, not formatting, or something..). That will refresh it, and may take care of it. You will lose settings and stuff, though.
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Hey this has happened to me a couple of times to but
my works if you leave it alone for awhile ( maybe i
just hit it in the right spot). However before this
happened for 3 weeks or so my ipod would randomely
stop playing if it is on hold. i think this is
related to a malfunction in teh feature were if you
take out the headpohones it stops playing. Did your
wife experience similar problems?
Recently my ipod has a near inaudible volume. it's up
all the way, hte max volume is up all way, and when i
adjust max volume the volume comes back but as soon
as i exit out of the adjustment it becomes quiet
again.
My ipod is working now just from fiddlings and
leaving it alone (temperature effect it?)
If your wife experienced any similar problems let me
know so i can send it in before it progresses to be
worse.
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
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- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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