My ipod won't play any of my songs!?

Question

i have a 30g white 5th gen. ipod and i go into my songs and press play on a song, and it just keeps skipping songs. like the songs are 0 seconds long. it goes through every individual song, but not a note plays and not a word is sung. someone help! and please, don't tell me to call apple or go somewhere. i know how to do that, i was just hoping someone could give me some advice before i do anything like that.

Answer 1

try to restart it

press the middle and the bottom button at ones

and hold it for like 10 seconds

Answer 2

If you have all of the music that you want on your current computer, you can try to restore the Ipod to factory settings and re-sync everything back on.

To do this just hold the play and middle button at the same time for 4-6 seconds. Then just plug in the ipod and re-sync.