I cant find music files on my Ipod

I can see all my songs on my ipod library when I tunes is open. But when open it as a hard drive half of my songs are missing or not there. I need them all to be there to transfer my library to a new computer.
any suggestions on how to find these files?

Hi,
To transfer all the songs from the computer to the iPod shuffle and then to a new computer, first determine the amount of space taken by all the songs.
Then connect the iPod shuffle to the old computer and in iTunes Prefrences click on the iPod and check "Enable Disk Use" and slide the slider to the Right side to increase the size.
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Thank you for the info, with formatting my iPod I managed to connect it to iTunes again.
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