Ipod shuffle wont transfer songs

my sister has an ipod shuffle and has purchased all of her music on my macbook. well she just got her own computer (windows) and we are having issues getting her songs onto the windows computer. all the songs from the mac are on the ipod and when i connect it to the windows it asks to transfer purchases or erase and sync. i remember when i was transferring her purchases from my account on my mac to her own account that i had to select transfer purchases to get them into the library and then sync up with the library. so i select transfer purchases and it wont do anything the songs are there but i cant do anything with them. so i go up to file and select transfer purchases from that menu and it will only transfer 81 out of the 131 on the ipod. i have tried a number of different things and cant seem to figure it out. if anyone has any advice i would appreciate it. i have an appointment at the ipod bar at my local apple store but im not sure if they will be able to help me or not.

allspikedup wrote:
so i go up to file and select transfer purchases from that menu and it will only transfer 81 out of the 131 on the ipod.
Are ALL 131 purchased songs? Reason I ask is that ONLY purchased songs are
transferred in this process...

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