When I try to add songs to my iPod shuffle 1st gen, an error (-50) occurs

Hello. Each time I try to add songs from iTunes to my iPod (1st generation), an error called (-50) occurs and prevents any song from being transferred to the iPod. I have reinstalled iTunes and updated it several times, besides restoring the iPod itself before each new attempt, but the advice about that error always appears again.
Does anyone know any solution to this?
Thank you.

On an XP system, we'd better check the possibilities from the following document:
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