My ipod shuffle isn't showing up on my computer or itunes

okay umm first my original ipod shuffle charger dock broke and i had to go a while w/o my ipod and now i just bought a new charge. the ipod's charged now and i can still listen to music thats on it but i plug the USB into the commputer, it doesnt show up on itunes or my computer or device manager...
can someone please help

I have loaded most of my music library from Windows to iTunes, but now that I want to download the music onto my iPod Shuffle, the darn thing doesn't show up in what they call the Source Pane, so there is no way for me to load my music onto the Shuffle. I think Apple has made a product that is fraught with glitches! Any suggestions on how I can download music from my music library?

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Actually, that's a good question. I thought it was true with all iPods, but I just tried an experiment on my full-sized iPod and it wasn't the case.
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