Ipod shuffle won't show up on 2nd computer

Please help..... I want to play my Ipod shuffle on another computer. I don't need to download any music from or to the 2nd computer, I just want to play the shuffle's content on it(in Itunes). When I plug in the usb, the device charges, but it does not show up in Itunes. I authorized the 2nd computer, but still nothing. Please talk me thru this. I love my Ipod, and am very much into my music, but I'm pretty lame at understanding computers, so please keep this in mind when you reply............ Thanks

Actually, that's a good question. I thought it was true with all iPods, but I just tried an experiment on my full-sized iPod and it wasn't the case.
I copied a song (one that I didn't mind deleting) manually to my iPod (not shuffle). I started playing it off the iPod list. Then I went to my main iTunes library list and deleted that song. The song kept playing and continued to be listed on the iPod's list. When I do the same thing with my shuffle, as soon as delete the song off the main library list, the song stops playing and the iPod shuffle re-syncs to no longer have the song.
So to answer your question, I believe you can set the larger iPods to manually manage your music (not sync) and play songs from it on multiple computers. You just can't do the same thing with a shuffle.

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