Voice memo won't sync to iTunes, won't play on ipod!

After successfully recording several lessons and syncing them to my laptop, my most recent voice memo did not get copied over to iTunes as usual when syncing. On closer examination, the particular voice memo will not play on the iPod, although in the iPod list of voice memos it appears as a normal voice memo, i.e., with the right time stamp and of appropriate length.
Any ideas?
thanks

I had same problem with my ipodtouch 5g on ios 6. i synced all of the voice memos but two of them wont sync for some reason.i called apple and was on phone for hour and half but they cound solv it. i used and idea and recorded the memos on my laptop with an aux cable and it worked out fine. it is also very easy for windows and mac.
*************************** I THINK APPLE NEEDS TO REMOVE RESTRICTION OF THEIR SOFTWARE OR THEY NEED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO HELP THEIR COUSTMER. FROM NOW ON I WILL USE MY ANDROID PHONE TO RECORD AUDIO SO IT EASY FOR ME TO TRANSFER IN MY COMPUTER. SORRY APPLE U DON'T OFFER FREEDOM TO YOUR COUSTMER.**************************************

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