Itunes stuck at finishing sync

Hey guys,
Alright so here's my problem. I just bought a 7th gen ipod nano yesterday and ever since then I've been trying to sync my music to it with no success at all. The problem seems to be that every time I hit sync, it eventually gets stuck on "finishing sync" forever.
I do notice however that the spinning circle next to my device name turns into an eject button at that point and the apply or sync button on the bottom right becomes clickable again. But when I try to click the eject button while the top of my iTunes still says finishing sync, a new window pops up that just says syncing ipod with a bar going across it. That window also stays forever and the only way I can get rid of it or get back into iTunes is to end the itunes process from the task manager and repoen.
If I try hitting the apply or sync button that becomes relit, then the finishing sync problem just happens again. When I try to just pull my ipod out or exit itunes all together, the ipod says that I have no music on it. The weird part of that however is that in the "general" it says I only have 2 gb left available, even though right above it it says I have no music pictures videos etc. If I were to sync all of my music to the ipod, it should have around 2 gb left. However it is not there. This has led me to believe that all of my music has indeed been synced to the ipod, but for some reason it's just not showing up. I've tried resetting my ipod, updating itunes, etc. No luck.
I've even tried syncing 100 songs instead of 2000 songs, hoping that if I sync a little at a time it'll work. No luck.
Someone please help me this is driving me crazy!

Alright guys quick update. After I wrote this post I went back over to my ipod and guess who decided to start working lol. The ipod is now disconnected and it says that there is about 13.something gb available and that it has the 120 or so songs that I tried syncing most recently on it. But now when I look at itunes it thinks the ipod is still plugged in and is still stuck in that forever syncing loop. I just exited the itunes via the task manager. The new problem that arises is that when I try to play one of the songs that successfully made it over to my ipod, as soon as I click on it, the screen goes black, then the apple logo appears, then it brings me to the home page. No music played.
What's wrong with my ipod/itunes lol

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