Ipod Shuffle won't show up on the computer Please Help!!!!

Ok,
One day my Ipod worked was working and I could plug it the computer and it would charge and do everthing it was supposed to do. A few days later I edited my songs in Itunes and went to go plug in my Shuffle and nothing happened, no lights no nothing. It would not show up any where in my computer. I have had other problems that have been resolved by calling Apple. This Ipod is only 10 months old.
Please Help.
  Windows XP  

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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