What causes ipod classic to freeze?

Hi,
We recently bought my Dad a new ipod classic. I got itunes set up on my Dad's windows laptop, imported some music (only about 40--50 tracks to start with) then synced to the new ipod. Synced quickly, then played back pefectly for about 10 minutes before freezing.
We couldn't access the internet at that exact moment, so we just thought it was a dud as it remained in the same frozen state for about 2 days, so my Dad sent it back and got a replacement.
So, 2nd ipod gets synced, plays back then freezes too. By this time my Dad is ready to smash it up, but we had the internet again so we found out about the reset procedure involving the Menu and Select buttons and this worked fine. However, it still happens pretty regularly on a nearly new ipod with only a small number of mp3s, so what could be causing it?
A lot of the mp3s he has are quite old and from different places, so my gut is that there are some corrupt files (an indication was that the track info was all over the place) causing it to freeze, but I don't really know what I'm talking about so this is a wild guess. If this is a likely cause, how can you find corrupt mp3s in order to fix/remove them?
Thanks in advance, wise people.

Try running these MP3 tracks though the MP3 Vaildator program that can be downloaded from the link below.
http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html
B-rock

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