When I plug in headphones no sound through headphones,  but can hear music through ipod.

I plug in my headphones and no sound comes through the headphones, but can hear music from the ipod. Anyone  have any solutions?

If you truly own an iPod classic, I'm not exactly sure how music can be heard playing from it, since it doesn't have an external speaker.
Have you tried a hard reset yet?  To do this, press and hold both the Select (Center) and Menu buttons together long enough for the Apple logo to appear. 
It might not hurt to try a different set of headphones as well.
The last resort is to restore the iPod to factory settings via iTunes and if the issue still persists, it's likely a hardware problem with the headphone jack.
B-rock

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