Why won't my songs play on Ipod but will on Computer?

My songs on my computer are playing perfectly fine. I download all the songs to my 4th generation Ipod touch, and they are on the ipod but whenever I select them they do not play, the songs just skip over most of them and then play the songs that will play. My sister has a older verison of an Ipod touch and hers will play the songs. On the computer under my ipod's playlists the songs pop up with the "i" bubble. What can i do to fix this?! I've tried re downloading the songs muiltiple times. It doesn't seem to work.

i got the same problem, happened with "Now its on" and currently with "My Wife, My *****, My Girl", both by Tech N9NE. i ended up just getting now its on from limewire. i think the song for download might be faulty becuase i even deleted the song from my computer and bought it again, but to no avail. as well, i took the song off my ipod and put it on again, which also didn't work. I suggest just finding it on the internet in some other way

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Hello
So, i ripped my copy of Disturbed's Asylum to my PC in mp3, the song plays fine in iTunes, but when transferred to my iPod, it will not play if I either select it or pass it on a playlist. The album artwork and information displays fine, but it will just stop at 0 time for a couple seconds, then advance to the next song. Also, the play count increases everytime it runs over the song, so it is capable of writing data to the file.
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*Skipping songs*
The iPod seems to fail to play all of the occasional track that iTunes, and indeed other PMPs, are happy to play. There is probably some minor technical error in the internal structure of the file which is normally ignored by other playback software but causes the Classic to bail out.
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