HELP Ipod wont stop on any song. Randomly shuffles all songs w/o playing

The screen comes up 1 of 320 songs then starts to go through all songs w/o playing them...shows all info. even shows time line @ bottom with how long song is but the song timer never starts. It plays the only two instrumental/classical songs I have but no others. The last time it worked was after i downloaded like 70 songs in one day. When connected to itunes/laptop u get error message that says "cannot read contents"
HELP....HELP...HELP ......only had ipod for a few months.

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Two things first:
One posting is usually sufficient.
and
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