Ipod plays music at reduced quality!!!

hi someone PLEASE HELP ME!!!
my ipod was working fine yesterday,last night i added 32 songs on to the ipod. this morning when am listening to my ipod all the songs have reduced in sound quality...i though it was just my newly added songs but its all the songs in the library.
but when i checked back to my itunes library on my computer the music quality was fine.ive tried updating the ipod again but that didnt work.
so i dont understand whats happened. i'd really apprisate if anyone can help me out!
thanks in advance
Advent T12 Windows XP ipod video 30GB

i had this problem once, found out it was the earbuds. try out a different pair of headphones/earbuds. if something blows in those evil little fragile earbuds, it's going to play at a poor quality. if not, then try re-uploading the songs

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