Lost music library on computer, can't get songs back from shuffle

I had to erase my hard drive last night and I THOUGHT I was backing up some of my music files on my shuffle. However, when I plug it into the USB port, I get a message saying the ipod is synced with another library and I would I like to erase it and sync with the current (empty) library. If I click cancel, itunes and my desktop do not recognize that the ipod shuffle is there. Is there any way to retreive my music? Apparently the shuffle does not have the "manual update" function that other ipods do to get around this problem.
Please help!!

You can also copy music from the shuffle via the command line using Terminal. Unfortunately, all the music files are invisible in the finder and only show up using command line.
Probably easier to use one of those apps, assuming they work with shuffle.

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