I have no idea what is going on, please help!

Question

hey,
i've only had my iPod 3rd generation nano for a little bit, but there's already problems!
first of all, the touch screen thing, I can use it in the sense that I can change the volume... so I guess the 'touch' part of it is working. But whenever I try to click it, as in to move to a different song, it won't work.
Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

well, each corner of the ring (top, bottom, left, right) has a button on it. If you want to use these buttons, you must actually press down on the wheel, not just touch it. there should be a faint click when you push down and that corner of the wheel will actually depress slightly into the surface of the iPod.
the top corner is "MENU" (go back to the last list of options you were at), the bottom is "> ❙❙" (play/pause whatever is currently playing), the left is "⎮<<" (skip to the song that was just played), the right is ">>⎮" (skip to the song that will play next), and the button in the middle of the ring is called the center button (when you press this, whatever is selected will be activated. i.e. if Shuffle Songs was selected, a push of the center button will start shuffling.)
the click wheel also serves as a way to scroll through lists. if you move your finger gently and smoothly along the ring (you don't have to push hard at all) in a circular formation to scrool. moving around the circle clockwise (to the right) scrools down the list to the next menu item, and pushing the center button chooses that item.