Ipod shuffle no longer recognised on my iTunes - please help

my ipod shuffle is no longer being recognised on my itunes. the ipod device is working fine. a few days ago when i went to change some songs on my playlist it said i needed to update my software which i did, only i did have some problems and it said it had to start my ipod shuffle up again and then it said it no longer recongised the device and that an error had occurred and now i plug it into my machine. the green light comes on so it knows it is there but itunes doesn't pick this up and i cannot access my ipod shuffle through it anymore. don;t suppose there is anyone out there who has had something similar happen and can offer me some advice on why this has happened and what i need to do next

I had the same problem and read here and some other places hours of solutions that part of the worked and part didn't.
Eventually I tried something simple and it worked for me:
1- Go to the WI-FI icon (up at the menu bar, at the top of the screen) (-I am assuming that you don't know where it is, if you do, just go to 2- there is a triangle with bars and rounded edge. This is the WIFI icon).
2- Click on it and then disable the WIFI connection (click on "Turn WI-FI off").
3- Wait some seconds and turn it on again.
4- My iPod appears in the iTunes side bar now.
That's all I do and, as I said, it works for me.
Hope it will work for you too.
GM

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