My purchases won't play on my Ipod

I have the old shuffle that is the size of a 5-pack of gum.
I have iTunes vesrion 7.6.
I have deauthorized and reauthorized my PC 3 times.
I have restored factory settings on my iPod 7 times.
I have purchased song from iTunes and can play them on the PC.
I can drag them from purchased to my iPod.
The songs appear in the iPod.
When I disconnect the iPod, none of the purchased songs will play.

these are songs bought and paid 4 on iTunes. They play on itunes, but not on my ipod
The fact that a song plays in iTunes is no guarantee that it will play on the shuffle... select one of them in iTunes, go to File menu, and click on Get Info, copy what Summary says here.

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Try:
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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All of my songs that are on my iPod are in iTunes (How else would they get on my iPod xP) and they all work fine. In general, the songs on my iPod work/play fine, minus a few.
When I go to play them, the load up, I see everything that should be there (album cover, band name, song name etc.) but the song doesn't play. What does happen though, is that the iPod rapidly goes through the album, going song to song, without playing any of them, as if I were pressing the skip song button. (which I am not pressing)
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i have this exact problem on my 120 classic. it started earlier today on a few song i had downlaoded from the iTunes store. i thought it was an accessability issue since i had just updated to the latest iTunes, but it started happening on my songs from CDs, and then what you described happened on every single song i played on shuffle (out of about 10,000 songs total)
i got home and plugged it into to itunes only to find it told me to restore it. so i did. then it looked as if it was fixed (the bar at the bottom showed everything on it)
then i unplugged it, and it said no songs, yet there was 50gb of info on it.
i checked under settings and it said it was all 'other'. then i plugged it in again and restored it again and the same thing happened, 50gb of other.
iTunes works perfectly still. im not sure what the problem is, and ill probably go to the nearest iTunes store this weekend and ill tell you how it goes if theres a way to fix it.

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