IPod connected, but won't transfer songs

I'm having some trouble getting my new songs onto my iPod mini.
I plug the iPod in, and the document files show up on the screen, but in the iTunes file, my iPod doesn't show as updating. The iPod itself isn't showing up anywhere at all. Any helpful advice here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Have you seen this?
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[ODBC][27847][SQLError.c][461]
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[ODBC][27847][SQLError.c][424]
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[ODBC][27847][SQLError.c][461]
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