I can not navigate through my music directory/play songs on my 3rd gen iPod touch

I recently picked up a 3rd generation iPod touch used. Before last night I had had no problems with its interface.
The music library seems to have completely frozen up on me. I can select the music icon and it just brings me to the page of the last album I listened to. From there I can't go anywhere as the iPod is completely unresponsive to touch. The main menu and all of the other apps work fine, I'm just stuck on this one album screen in my music directory, unable to select any other songs. Suggestions?

At any point can you get to Settings?
You can try to reset settings but may end up having to restore.
Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
If you need to restore make sure you backup first.

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