Music scrolling but won't play

The music I bought on Itunes won't play and it just keeps scrolling through as if I am hitting the next button. How do I fix this?

Well, my first thought is your iPod is full. Remember, though it is called a 160GB iPod, this means 160 billion bytes. This translates to approximately 149GB (as computed by the iPod or any other computer). If you account for overhead such as album art, games, operating system, library database, etc., the iPod may just be filling up prior to completion. I do not know what happens in such a case.
And the reason for the discrepancy - hard drive manufacturers use Base10 when marketing their wares; computers (PCs, Macs, whatever) use Base2 when computing drive size (or memory size, for that matter). So, 160 billion is (10^9)*160. However, the computer computes 160GB as (2^30)*160 (or a little over 171 billion bytes). Designating GB as 1 billion bytes has been standard marketing for the past 20 years.

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