Timothy J. Trace:
> Hi, I have managed to load my wife's 1GB shuffle without using iTunes.

> This is on a Windows XP system.

AKA the Typhoid Mary of OS's.

> Let me summarize for you...

This is only a summary!? My sincerest sympathy if old age took your
dearly beloved wife while she was waiting to listen to her music. About
20 years ago Apple introduced a thing called "Drag and Drop" to
personal computers. Using that clever little innovation, it takes my
wife less than 60 seconds to load her 1GB Shuffle -- all by herself, no
less -- from iTunes!

> First I formatted my shuffle as a FAT32 drive. I left it completely
> blank.
>
> I created a folder on the root of the shuffle, and copied 600MB of MP3s into the folder.
>
> Then I unzipped this file to the root of the iPod:
>
> I installed Python: http://www.python.org
>
> I extracted the rebuild_db.py file from this archive to the root of
> the shuffle: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=136446
>
> I ran rebuild_db.py from the root of the shuffle. I had only to
> double-clicked it because I had already installed Python.
>
> I disconnected the shuffle and rocked out to 106 songs

You Windows guys are a real trip -- always reliable for a laugh! You
might have better spent your time working on this
<http://tinyurl.com/8hcl9>! January is going to be a great month for my
little consulting business!

Davoud

Expert consulting: Mac, Windows. Friend? Get a Mac. Paying me by the
hour? I *highly* recommend Windows.

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