More than one IPOD on my ITUNES

Hello, I am a bit dim.
I have a Nano that works fine with my iTunes and is all synched up and that.
It was previously synched to the same computer with an older harddrive that died. Also with this old harddrive we filled my wife's Shuffle. When the harddrive died we got a new one and after some fuss got my Nano working again, but . . .
when my wife wants to be able to add stuff to her Shuffle via my iTunes, when we plug it in it is recognised but the contents come up greyed out and you can't drag anything to it. Neither is there the option in the pane to add things manually. She wants to keep the stuff that's on there on there and add more. Don't want to use Autofill (the only option currently on offer) as we have divergent tastes and she won't like what her stuff gets replaced with at all.
I know that I need to link the Shuffle to my iTunes but I don't know (or remember, I think I once knew) how to do that without erasing everything on there. Surely it's possible to have more than one 'pod running from the same iTunes account . . . .
Can anyone help?

Sorry, but an iPod Shuffle can only be synchronized to one computer at a time. It's not like other iPod models where there's a "manual sync" mode that allows you to connect to multiple copies of iTunes. If you connect an iPod Shuffle to another computer and sync, all the previous content on the Shuffle will be erased.

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