Problem with song transferring

I am having a serious problem with my iPod. When I try to transfer songs onto it, after about 20 songs, the transfer process will begin to slow down dramatically by pausing on several random songs. Eventually, if the amount of music i'm trying to transfer is large enough, the transfer process, and iTunes, will freeze, and when I eject my iPod no songs seem to have transfered and the iPod is empty. If only transfer 20 or 30 songs onto it I have no problem listenening to them, it is only when a certain amount of songs are on it (or being transferred to it, I'm not sure.) The iPod is a replacement for a broken one, and it has only suffered on drop, although it was semi-hard. If anyone has any advice please let me know, I've tried everything I can think of.

you could try to manually load everything. It would still take a long time. but if you do it in like album batches it might make it through.
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