IPod nano only plays a small portion of the song then skips the rest

Hey, my friend recently got a song from limewire and it works fine in iTunes, but when she plays it on her iPod, it plays like 30 seconds then it skips it....she has tried taking it off of her iPod and putting it back on, tried taking it out of iTunes, and even tried converting it to ACC using iTunes...she will try restoring it later.
any help will be appreciated

I had the exact same problem when I first got my iPod mini 4g. Just simply restoring it to factory settings should make it work fine. If not it could be something a little more complex. And that most certainly is out of my league. ^_^;; Hope that helped
-Emma

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