Song won't add to iPod Shuffle

Just bought iPod Shuffle for my son. Purchased a Pink song from iTunes. No problem. Had an Iggy Pop song already on my computer. Iggy Pop song adds to iPod no problems. Pink song which was purchased all A-OK will not add to the iPod. Iggy Pop song plays on iPod so computer-to-iPod connection is fine. Why won't the Pink song add to the iPod? Drag and drop doesn't work, Autofill doesn't work, only for the Iggy Pop song.

Thanks for that. It turned out that my computer wasn't authorized to play iTunes tracks yet. When I hit play I had to enter my iTunes password. Then I was able to copy it. Thanks again for your help.

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Message was edited by: Tom Meade1

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Exact message: "Some of the items in the Itunes Library, including "..." were not copied to the iPod because they cannot be played on this iPod" Then it says there are "101 problems - see below"
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Sully, I think it is an odd coincidence that we both have "101 problems". I thought this was an iPod problem at first, but I have reset the iPod and started all over. The problem persists. I think the problem is in iTunes. In my case at least, there seems to be a list of m4p files within iTunes that were on this iPod before, files that i have replaced with regular mp3 files now, and iTunes doesn't want to copy over them. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
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hmmmmm.
okay, let's check to see if this is a problem in your case:
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