Q: Nano (2nd Gen) stopped working in the middle of a really good song.

I paused my Nano (2nd gen) to talk to someone, and when I hit play to continue listening, nothing happened.  I checked the screen, but it was black--never seen that before.  I put it on the charger when I got home, but after an hour or so, I still wasn't able to get it to come on.  Plugged it into my computer, but it won't recognize that a device has been connected because it's not on.

Does anyone know how I can get it to work again, or failing that, help me recover the music that's on it?  Unfortunately, the library was on an old computer I no longer have.  My current laptop  operates on Windows 8.1.

Thanks in advance for any help!