TS1363 my ipod shuffle downloaded a few songs, but now says that it's locked and cannot be written to.  Any suggestions?

\my ipod shuffle downloaded a few songs, but now says that it's locked and cannot be written to.  Any suggestions?

Hello musicalgal4377,
The following article details a number of likely causes for this particular message.
'Disk cannot be read from or written to' when syncing iPod or 'Firmware update failure' error when updating or restoring iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1207
Cheers,
Allen

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