Video Stutters & songs skip

My ipod will stall playing music videos and skip to next song at random points in songs. I tried to restore but that doesnt help. Also, sometimes i get a wierd chip while playing music.
Anyone else having issues like this or a solution?

I believe I found the problem: very long audio files from books on cds
I restored ipod again, and only put one music video on the ipod. The playback was great. So I made sure not to add those long audio files and playback is good as well, no more skipping in middle of tracks.
Hopefully, this will help someone if they encounter a similar situation.

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First try deleting the songs and redownloading them
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Now I think that I have officially tried everything short of taking out the HD and replacing it..
I have used the removable drive and still got the problem.. However, I noticed that the skipping only happens on my Backing Tracks and the same ones, which then told me that the tracks became corrupted. So I re-encoded 2 of the tracks using Garageband and Others I just replaced with new versions..
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