Ipod Wont show up

Hey I was at my cousins house and he set my ipod to manually manage music photos etc. Now I'm home and i plugged my ipod into my computer and the icon wont show up on itunes. I know its in because it has the charging icon. What should I do?

I assume it worked before. Have you tried:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1495
(iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows)

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Referring to this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302773
i have a question:
I am experiencing the same problem as described on that page. Only thing is, it is much more severe for me. I'm guessing that over 100 of my 900 songs wont show under artists.
Yet, most of my songs do not have an album name.
First question, why do only a part of those songs that don't have an album name not show under artists on my iPod?
Secondly, is there no easier way to get this problem fixed than giving the songs an album name? Firstly, it's impossible for me to know what songs do show and which are not shown under artists on my iPod, i only know a few. It's not like im going to go through all 900 songs to find this out. Secondly, i do not know the correct album name for each song. If i fix an album name, i want it to be correct and not made up in my head. Thirdly, it takes ages and ages to name albums for all songs that do not have album names.
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"First question, why do only a part of those songs that don't have an album name not show under artists on my iPod?"
It's a bug as far as I know, possibly in the future some update or change to iTunes and/or the iPod software will rectify it.
"Secondly, is there no easier way to get this problem fixed than giving the songs an album name"
At the moment, no there's not.
"it takes ages and ages to name albums for all songs that do not have album names"
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Hi Saurabh,
I had the exact same problem, but just found this earlier post that solves all our problems! (phew):
Sounds like you have "Compilations" switched on.
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On you iPod go to settings>compilations and toggle it to off
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