New iPod Shuffle won't stop blinking orange

My new iPod Shuffle has only 3 songs to sync with iTunes but it won't stop blinking orange.

What do you mean you can't set it up?  Are you trying to connect to iTunes for the first time to set it up and start syncing content over to it?
B-rock

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