Skips songs and doesnt play them all... HELP!

When I turn my ipod on and push shuffle songs, it skips songs by itself and only plays certain songs. I know they work because I have played these songs on there before, this problem just started a day or so ago. Also when I try to turn off the ipod, it takes a lot longer then it should to turn off. Does anyone have any suggestions or anything to help me?? This is a fairly new ipod, only got it about a month and a half ago.

The iPod mini was discontinued over a year ago...in Sept. 2005 if I recall correctly. So if you got it in brand-new condition more recently than that, it's probably a different model (in which case you shold go to the respective forum where you might have more luck). Or, is it perhaps are used or refurbished iPod mini?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688
I know some people who are new to iPods mix up the mini and the nano.
And, by any chance, are the skipped songs ones that you purchased off of iTunes? I've heard that can happen.

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I loaded the songs from CD and have played them several times over 2 or 3 years. Recently, I tried to play them on my IPod Classic and they just skip to the next track. I have restored my IPod and reloaded it. Still, the songs won't play.

Is it only a particular group or tracks or just any of your tracks loaded from CD at random?
It could be an indication or a damaged or dying hard drive. I would recommend doing a disk diagnostic on the iPod's HD using the instructions given by turingtest2 in this older thread. He also covers what the resulting numbers indicate.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3784647?start=0&tstart=0
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Hi. The two user tips both describe a sequence of steps that should get your library from the point where it threatens to wipe data from your device to where it is syncing normally, while recovering as much information as possible. It may still be necessary to wipe and reload the device but this should only take place once all the data that can be recovered has been recovered.
Doing step 1 of 8 and then complaining things aren't the way you want them to be yet strikes me as premature...
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Recreating the previous checked/unchecked status of every track in your library from where you are now may not be that easy. Syncing with selected playlists has many advantages, one of which would have been that you would have a named playlist that could have been retrieved by 3rd party software if you had used this method.
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If your iPhone is skipping over certain songs, you may want to check out this article:
Troubleshooting songs that skip
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3217
Cheers!
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- After all the suff in in the iTunes library, make a backup of the iPod by connecting the iPod to the computer and right clicking on the iPOd under Devices in iTunes.
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I downloaded 9 songs and 2 of them are not complete when I play my IPOD they play 3/4's then end., I downloaded 9 songs and 2 of them are not complete when I play my IPOD they play 3/4's then end.

I dowloaded 9 songs and 2 of them are not not complete when I play them on my IPOD Classic the songs play then 3/4's of the way they end.

You may have to try deleting all the music from your phone (by going to Settings>General>Usage>Music, swipping All Music and tapping Delete), then sync it all back on with iTunes in order to fix this.

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If you can't find these songs on your purchased list to redownload them (as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519), you'll have to contact iTunes store support for assistance: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.

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restore with itunes not from an itunes backup or cloud save they do absolutely nothing only a clean restore will solve your problem

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i ALSO am experiencing something similar to this on 2 separate MacBook Pro's.
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You'll have to restore them from the most recent backup you made before you deleted them.
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