Ipod not showing on the computer, but still charging

Basically... I plugged my iPod into the computer a few days ago, and nothing happened- usually itunes opens automatically, but it didn't this time, so I opened up itunes to see what was happening, and the ipod wasn't showing. I checked in Finder, but there was no ipod there either.
I've read through all the literature about these sorts of problems, but the strange thing is that my ipod is showing as charging- so it's obviously got some sort of connection to the computer going on, even though it's not shoing up on the computer screen.
I bought my MacBook not long ago, and before, I had a PC... so my iPod is configured for running on Windows... I don't know if this affects this problem or not, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
Any help would be much appreciated, cause I'm totally lost here! Thanks in advance

I don't know if the ipod still works with my old windows laptop- wouldn't it erase all the data if I plugged it in to an empty itunes library? :/
And uhm... no, basically. It's not showing up on anything on the macbook, though on the ipod screen it says it's charging, which is what's quite puzzling.
Yeah, my ipod was transferring music until about a week ago or so, so I thought it probably wasn't that, but better safe than sorry!
The ipod itself seems to be fine- I was listening to it this morning, no problems at all. I guess it could be the cable- but I don't have another ipod to try on my macbook, if that's what you meant.
I'll see if I can go into the nearest Apple store sometime this week and see if they have anything to say about this!
Anyway thanks for the reply!

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