Ipod takes tooo long to sync

my ipod touch 5 gen is taking so long to sync, it usualy goes really fast, but now its just stuck on step 8out of 8 ' waiting for changes to apply'. i deleted and reinstalled itunes but nothing. my laptop charger is also broken, so the battery ran out before it could finish syncing, so i have to get a new charger to see how long it actualy takes... any suggestions?

sadly it didnt help, i got my new laptop charger, and its been like 2 hours syncing now BUT after like 30 min the it started going through all my songs on the progress bar, which it DIDNT do before but it was after a half hour, and i didnt wait that long the previous times. but now its stuck on step 8 of 8 waiting to COPY ITEMS, and above that it says copying artwork ( im asuming album covers). i went through my ipod tho and a bunch of songs that stopped working are back playing, and my videos are back on. its still, this sync time is rdicuous

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Vmondo--
A couple of items, one of which has already been mentioned: Picture size. Another is picture type; jpegs seem to load faster.
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