Why doesn't mine play music or do anything

My 1st gen ipod shuffle 512 mb (not hp just normal) won’t play music when turned on, it just gives me a green light (with headphones plugged in) and i know i have music on it so it should be playing. when plugged into the computer it doesn’t register properly, with a bootex file and iPod_Control being pale white in the menu, showing that it is a copy pasted file. i don’t have itunes because it won’t download properly so i won’t for now (i want to download either 10.6.3 or 11.4 so i can actually use it with ios 6)