Ipod 120gb seems to be dying

I've had the thing since 2008 I believe, went swimming with it once in 2010 or so but it's not had problems since it recovered from that incident. Although suddenly my screen has an abundance of black lines/pixels all over which wasn't too troubling but I decide to factory reset it and now I can't sync very many songs before the ipod/syncing crashes. My ipod also makes a lot of buzzing and clicking in this process and got rather hot until I unplugged it.

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iPhone and iPod touch: Frozen and unresponsive

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