Copying songs from shuffle to hard drive

My Ipod shuffle was synced to my old computer which died, taking behind all the information on it, including, obviously, my entire music library and songs on the shuffle. I've been trying to catch up with the music on the new computer, but I know there are many songs that I can't locate very easily.
When I plug the shuffle in, itunes tells me it can't sync it, and offers to erase the shuffle's contents and start over. I can't do that! I need to find a way to get the songs off the shuffle before I can do that, and I'm lost. Can anyone help?
I appreciate your help!

"Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)"
This means the data on the disc is not correct (a bad burn). Try again.
Do you have an iPod or a USB stick.flash drive? You can transfer files that way.
I would not recommend burning them to an audio CD.
The songs were originally converted to AAC, thereby losing data (quality).
Wif you burn to an audio CD and then reimport as AAC, you will again lose data (quality).

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