Please Help! Ipod syncing and copying with itunes but Ipod shows No Music

I don't know what I am doing wrong, I've got maybe 30 songs in Itunes, I connect the ipod, the ipod shows up in itunes. I have tried the following ways to get music from the library onto the pod
1. Right Click 'my pod' - select update songs
2. Top menu File - select songs on my pod
3. Right Click 'my pod' - select 'options' tick automatically update all songs,
4. As 3 but selected Manually update songs
In each instance the itunes thing goes through the motion of syncing, copying and updating etc
Then if you click on 'my pod' you can see in itunes all the music is there although you can not click on it or play it but the list is there.
However when I detached the pod it says No Music, No Playlists
Nothing
I checked the status and the ipod is empty
I don't know what else to do!!
Please can someone help
Many Thanks in advance

Your libarary doesn't just appear on any computer you sign into with your appleID.  If your computers are on the same network, you can enable home sharing and access the other computer's library this way.

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