Ipod will not upload songs from pc

Cannot upload music to ipod shuffle. I get an error message "error -36" What is going on? My computer recently crashed and now has been rebuilt and updated. All ipod updates are included. What do I do?

If you are having the same issues with another device you may be using the wrong or outdate drivers for the USB controller.
If it was happening with one device only, I would think it was that device. Given it is happening with more than one...
Also have your tried both the USB ports on the front and the back of the computer. Never forget the physical layers, and a loose wire between the front port and the motherboard could do it. Usually the back ports are soldered onto the motherboard and less prone to problems.
Is this a work computer on a network? What drive letters are assigned in My Computer?

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Also...
Transfer Music to Your iPod (Tutorial)
And to get to iTunes preferences as Chris describes, go to edit-->preferences (with the iPod connected) and then click the iPod tab.
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and installed the hardware that came with my ipod nano
Do you mean the software which came with your iPod?
Now I cannot update any songs to my ipod from my library.
You couldn't do this before. iTunes is one way. Computer to iPod.
I'd say restore the library from the backup you made before your computer crashed but tha is pretty unlikely, isn't it?'
Since you already told it to delete the songs on teh iPod and replace it with your (non-existant) library on the computer, those songs are gone.
You can send an email to iTMS and see what they say.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/lostmusic/
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