Videos Won't Play and Songs Stop Randomly

*These problems are on my iPod Nano 3rd Generation, Blue, 8GB*
I added a video to my iPod, it will play on iTunes, but when I select it to play on my iPod, all I get is a black screen.
Also, with a few songs, even one that I downloaded from iTunes, they will stop randomly in the middle of the song and go on and play the next song.
I never had this song problem with my old, 1st generation nano.
What should I do?
Is it faulty? Should I return it back to the shop?

If you downloaded iOS 6 - YouTube is no longer included in the iOS.
If you are not running iOS 6 - go to Settings>General>Restrictions and see if you restricted YouTube.
If it isn't restricted.Swipe from screen to screen and look for it. If you still can't find it....
You can reset the home screen layout and the icon will reappear - but the home screen will return to the way that it looked when you first activated your iPad. Settings>General>Reset>Reset Home Screen Layout.
For the videos - quit the app completely and then restart the iPad and try again.
Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the task bar will appear with all of your recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar. Restart the iPad.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Or ... Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
Or...Swipe to the right from your first home screen to get to the iPad Spotlight search. Type in the name of any of your movies in the field at the top. When the movie appears in the search - tap on it and it should start to play. Let it play for a minute or so - hit done - go back to videos app and see if all is OK.

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