Strange Occurance With My iPod Classic

Today I was using my iPod Classic (80GB) and I was at the Main Menu, I highlighted the Music section and as usual my cover artworks were shown at the right side of the screen. But then I realised that one of the pictures it showed I had never seen before and it was not an album cover. It was a picture of a few people walking down a road. I'd also like to point out that I don't have any photos in the Photos section on my iPod.
I know this is a really stupid question to ask, but has anyone else heard of anything like this happening?
Thanks for your time.

I've seen this happen before with both of my iPods. It happens with downloaded music that already has the album artwork embedded and it hasn't been replaced with your own artwork. Usually, you can find the files in iTunes, re-embed the correct artwork, and re-sync and it fixes it.

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Hello everyone
Well I have a Ipod Classic 160gb
all this time I was using it and was so flawlessly,
but 4 days ago, suddenly when I connect the Ipod into Itunes and listened some songs for a while, I go to the Ipod in the windows explorer, open it and then happened, my Itunes stop playing songs and show a error when it tried to play songs (is like they were deleted), so I go to check the Ipod in windows and for my surprise when I tried to get into the Itunes folder appeared a error message saying "Insert Disc In Unit I:\" (this happen with all my others folders inside the ipod), so I look at the properties and showed me that I had 90GB used and 58GB free, then I decided disconnect the Ipod and see if it plays songs well or if it's corrupted.
Since then the Ipod plays songs so badly, don't play some songs skips another ones, got freeze, and every time I plug it into a PC I can't see my folders inside the Ipod, but is able to plays songs perfectly in Itunes, provided i don't open the Ipod in Windows Explorer.
I need recover about 50gb of data of the Ipod (not the music)
but in the worse of the cases I want my Ipod play the songs well, (I already tried to restore but always have an error)
Please Help me I think the data still is ok but i don't know what to do, I don't wanna lose it.
(Note: I always connect the ipod in disk mode).
PS: Sorry about my bad english.

When you connect the iPod in Disk Mode, it will be a external hardisk to Windows. So if the iPod filesystem is corrupted due to a dying hardisk, you may get missing folder in WinExplorer or some strange behavior.
Do the iPod Disk Diagnostic as posted by tt2, it wont fix your problem, but help in troubleshooting.
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Thanks, for info, iPod Classic is a slower machine compared the Nano, unfortunately, if you read these discussions, majority of the freezes involved iTunes 10. Although if might be just slow and some impatient user just disconnect the iPod ands cause more problems. ( Yes I also did that but safely by doing a iPod Hard Reset, before disconnecting).
Here is the Apple support article that may help you.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717
or my usual solution for Windows Users.
Antivirus has a tendency to freeze iTunes sync Operation with iPod Classic, causing a timeout, which corrupt your iPod filesystem, so when iTunes can't read the iPod, it is pointing to this problem. Other causes is when your iPod hardisk is dying, or your battery is dying causing hardisk crashes.
My suggestion.
Connect your iPod to the PC and run chkdsk, to fix any iPod diskerror, then disconnect it, after chkdsk complete.
Disconnect your PC from Internet. (just to make sure no nasties creep into your system while you syncing.
Stop the Antivirus program
Connect your iPod to the PC, using a high speed USB 2.0 port at the back of your PC, do not use any USB Hub.
When iTunes Open up, Restore your iPod please, this is for iTunes to map correctly, to fix the corrupted filesystem.
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Sync your ipod, preferably manually Manage in small batches and disconnect after every batch, to check that all is well.
When all sync is complete, and iPod disconnected, start back your Antivirus and connect back the Internet.
Good Luck!

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Thanks

Thanks, ( you just got your first 10 points, congratulations! )
Ever since the iPod Classic was discontinued I have stopped purchasing music on iTunes. So I did not have a compelling reason to upgrade.
I have heard others having troubles and I got concerned that perhaps Apple had dropped support for the Classic on iTunes 12 because it was discontinued.
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