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An easier way to use the iPod Shuffle in disk mode
Authored by: kaih on Mar 24, '05 12:13:50AM

There are a couple of caveats with this, however generally it's good =)

If you uncheck "Enable Disk Use" then use the Autofill, iTunes will fill the iPod completely. Also, if you drag songs over manually, you can inadvertently fill the iPod. Enable Disk Use lets you reserve space for songs that iTunes then won't attempt to use.

If the iPod is mounted as a disk, then you launch iTunes, it unmounts the iPod as a disk and enables it in iTunes, so you can't access any files on the iPod if iTunes is running...

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An easier way to use the iPod Shuffle in disk mode
Authored by: jen729w on Mar 24, '05 11:06:46PM

Of course, this is true: if you fill your Shuffle, you won't have any space for files.

If there are already files on the Shuffle, iTunes recognises this and knows how much free space is available for songs.

Personally, I tend to copy a few albums' worth of songs to the Shuffle as and when I'm bored of whatever is on there, so I rarely have the full gig's worth of tunes on there. Perhaps this is because I have a G3 PowerBook with USB1.1. :-( A gig takes *forever* to transfer.

j.



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An easier way to use the iPod Shuffle in disk mode
Authored by: timmer on Mar 27, '05 09:04:03PM

That's how I like to use the Shuffle also.
But I found that if I already had some songs on, and then addes more through 'disk use' the Shuffle would not play them.
How do you do your set up - through iTunes or just manually drag them on? If so, does the Shuffle play them?
Will try it my self.
TIA,
Tim



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