Can't manually load music to my iPod Shuffle

I own a 2nd gen iPod shuffle and a 80GB iPod classic. Both are synced to 2 computers. The classic works fine when I try to load music from either computer but the shuffle will only let me add music from my desktop computer. When I try to load music from my laptop, it asks me to sync to the laptop and erase the music I have loaded from my PC. I can't find a way to manually load music from both computers.

That's the way the 2nd Gen shuffle works...

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