Nanno won't connect to Stereo Dock

I am having trouble getting my 5th gen nano to connect to my home stereo dock. It returns a message on the nano "Unrecognised Device" Older nanos 2nd & 3rd Gen work but my new one won't. Any suggestions how I fix this?

You posted to the wrong area of discussions. This is the 5th Generation iPod group (the video full sized iPods that were released previous to the "Classic" models). If you are asking a Nano question, you want to post to this area...
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=265
Patrick

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