Ipod will only play 5 or so songs

This problem began only a few months after my purchase. My ipod will play a few songs and shut off. Sometimes the shuffle function will not work. I tried my friend's ipod on my computer but the same thing happened. I tried putting songs onto a CD and reloading them back into a playlist, and that worked for awhile but things are getting worse again. I keep downloading the latest itunes, and restoring my ipod thinking that will help but it does not.

It is 1st generation shuffle. I took it to Circuit City and they put some songs on. It seemed to work, but I just forwarded through the songs and did not play them all the way through. This is a problem that gets worse as time goes on. A new batch of songs will play through for awhile, then gradually the batch that the ipod will play gets smaller and smaller until there are only a few songs left that will play. I did not test the Circuit City songs thoroughly so I will go back and try it again. Thanks for response!

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