HT1386 My ipod classic 80gb has trouble syncing songs. what sould i do?

It takes a long time, just to download a single song and after a while, it says cannot download. I have a mac 10.5.8 and it tells me that it is corrupted, along with a four digit code.

did you tried a reset ? Did  you tried to restore it ?
You don't give us a lot to work with

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