How do I fix a laggy iPod?

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I've done some researching on this issue... and honestly, I've found out that this has been an issue since 2008. So surely they've found a fix for this? I have an 80 GB iPod Classic, and it's really slow in terms of navigation... which is essentially why people buy iPods, right? For hassle free navigating?

Anyways..


My brother's iPod has less space left than my iPod and we both have the same exact type of iPod, except his is faster. There's no delay whatsoever... but my iPod is ridiculously slow.

Has Apple released a fix for this issue? If so can someone direct me to it? Or explain to me how to fix this issue. It's really annoying and I've been ignoring it for far too long now.

Could have anything to do with the fact that I have been refraining from updating iTunes for a long time?

My iPod is tremendously slow and it's really beginning to aggravate me. The reason I'm so fed up with how slow it's going is because I have an 80 GB iPod... and I only have 3100 songs on it which takes up about 19 GB or so.. So I have about 60 GB of space left on my 80 GB iPod... yet it goes super slow


Does anyone know the reason behind why it's going so slow? Has anyone else had issues with lagging iPods? Is there anything I can do to make it go as fast as when I first got it? I understand that the more you put on it, the slower it goes. But.. I've only filled up about 25% of it, there's no way it should be going this slow. I only have music on it, no movies, no pictures, none of that extra stuff.

Someone help?




tl;dr - my 80GB iPod has 60 GB of space left, but is lagging and responding really slowly.. how do I fix this?