My wife has an old Ipod nano tied to an old Apple ID. How do I update that to our new combined iTunes account

My wife has not updated this iPod for about 3 years. She had an old Apple account, for which, we don't have either the login or the password to anymore. She has been using my Apple account for Aps and other orders from Apple for her iPad, hence, the combined account, be it really is my account. A week ago, she decided to fire up the old iPod and order and paid for a lot of new music. That music is all there on my computer under my account. It initially would not sync to my account in iTunes and not only that it wiped out all the old songs that were on the iPod. I then did the restore as instructed, which wiped out anything else on the iPod. Once complete, the iPod showed up under the name to "test account." I have no idea how that happened as it was previously named Mary's iPod. During the process, I was not asked for a name nor can I now find a place to change the name. It is very strange, the test account icon shows up on the screen in my iTunes account, all of her new music is there, but every time I sync to the iPod, it goes through the process but does not add the songs. The iPod is completely blank now.

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