IPod Touch freezes and cannot be opened but still plays songs

i have 6months old iPod Touch 8gb and even in the first week of my purchase, while playing songs, it will suddenly freeze: it won't let me do anything. Just black screen but it still plays the music.
i would reset it (home button + sleep/wake button) and then it would be ok again. but if I just let it playing while its on freeze, after a few minutes it would stop playing and the freezing will continue.
I have tried restoring it: erasing all contents on my iTouch but it won't do anything.
This happens quite a lot of time now. It's actually worse now. I happened to bring it to the MAC store to let them define the problem. They said it probably has something to do with the "music" that I'm playing. Might corrupted or something. But of course I know what I'm playing and what I'm playing isn't corrupted. They would try to diagnose it though but it will take days for them to do it by restoring it and downloading other music and if, they said, the new downloaded songs won't make the iPod freeze, they would have to charge me even if my iPod is still on warranty.
Is this a common problem? should i try to let them fix the problem or is there anything i can do myself to fix it?

Welcome to the discussions,
to make sure the problem is not the iPod software, restore your device "as new iPod" without using the backup to get your data back.
If you can use your iPod without problems after that, the some data on the iPod was corrupted. Add your music step by step to make sure the music files are ok.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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