On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:14:23 -0500, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

>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.

C'mon, Dave, gimme a break. Seriously.

With the setup complete, successive music downloads to the shuffle are
simple. All you do is plug in the shuffle, Windows pops open the
drive in an explorer window for you, drag and drop the tunes into the
Music folder, double click the scriptfile, then shut down the USB
connection before disconnecting the shuffle.

That's precisely 1 more step than required with iTunes (running the
scriptfile), and it takes exactly 2 mouse clicks and 3 seconds to
complete.

>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>!

Hah, are we going to bring troll crap like that into an unrelated
thread? You fanbois are a real trip -- always reliable behavior.

You should know by now, the biggest target takes the most bullets.
HaXXoR dudes are not going to waste time attacking what, 4% or 5%..?
of the world's computers, when they can set their sights on larger
targets.

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:30:15 -0800, Randall Ainsworth
<rag@nospam.techline.com> wrote:

>Or...the guy could simply be a retard.

Thanks for living up to Paul's expectations expressed elsewhere in
this thread.

Timothy J. Trace <tim@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:29:34 -0700, Michelle Steiner
> <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
> >In article <53qdr15u41ridh8brdbhi0tg24qo6qgoji@4ax.com>,
> > Timothy J. Trace <tim@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Unless iTunes has changed, and *please* correct me if I'm wrong,
> >> songs that you download to the player are not backed up on the host
> >> PC.
> >
> >You are wrong, and things have not changed; they've always remained on
> >the host computer.
>
> Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
> for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
> always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
> library book, to the player?

You download it, and it goes where you have put the library. You can
pick it up and move it if you want.
>
> Is there a FAQ on this stuff?

Probably on the apple site, www.apple.com/itunes I would imagine.


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In article <311220052128296899%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> > Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and
> > potentially useful nugget of information...
>
> This is obviously some strange usage of the word "useful" that I
> wasn't previously aware of.

Well, it might be useful to *nix users.

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In article <scfer15cmvb52a2g8pe9bfn54b5c3t5evu@4ax.com>,
Timothy J. Trace <tim@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
> for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
> always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
> library book, to the player?

It's always downloaded to the local computer; you don't have to select a
destination for it. You then load it into iTunes; it's not checked out,
but remains both on the computer's disk, and in the iPod.

Further, if you have a CD that you want to copy to an iPod, you first
copy it to the local computer, using iTunes (or copy it with the
Finder--or the Windows equivalent--and import it into iTunes), then load
it into the iPod.

> Is there a FAQ on this stuff?

The Help menu in iPod.

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In article <311220051849536904%garner@netstreet.net>,
Garner Miller <garner@netstreet.net> wrote:

> > Classic Usenet thread
>
> Nah... I haven't seen anyone correct his spelling or grammar yet.
> Heh.

Or invoke Hitler.

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In article <1h8gjkp.14w4y5fxpos52N%usenet@alienrat.co.uk>,
usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote:

> To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from
> the iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less
> than they would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on
> what I can listen to them on.

You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.

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STFU
"Margolotta" <naggingdoubt@thebackofyourmind.invalid> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BFDC0B87014B5626F0488550@news.ngroups. net...
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:02:23 +0000, Timothy J. Trace wrote
> (in article <5iecr1908j7irjh00p4i47qj77oqgil47m@4ax.com>):
>
>> Hi, I have managed to load my wife's 1GB shuffle without using iTunes.
>> I am not experiencing the blinking orange green LED symptom of an
>> improperly loaded shuffle. This is on a Windows XP system.
>>
>> Most of the explanation can be found here:
>> http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net
>>
>> Let me summarize for you...
>>
>> First I formatted my shuffle as a FAT32 drive. I left it completely
>> blank.
>>
>> I created a folder (the name is of no consequence) 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:
>> http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/ipod_root.zip
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tim ==
>> (substitute 'tcsys.com' for 'nospam.co.uk')
>> _________________
>>
>> Visit the Surrender Dorothy web !! (http://dorothyrocks.com)
>> Visit the Crunch Monkey web !! (http://crunchmonkey.com)
>
> Tim,
>
> The name of this group is 'uk.COMP.sys.MAC' - it is a group for the
> discussion of Apple Macintosh computers, not Apple products in general
> (though, obviously, we do discuss other Apple products we do so in the
> context of them being attached to Macs). Whilst you might find someone
> here
> who has experience of hooking a Shuffle (IMO the most pointless iPod) to a
> PeeCee, you'd probably do better posting to a Windows group.
>
> There's nothing to stop you posting here (though, strictly, your post is
> off-topic and should have been marked as such) but bear in mind you're
> talking to a group of Mac heads who use Macs for a damned good reason - we
> don't much care for PeeCees and M$haft.
>
> I'm not sure what you know about Usenet hierarchy, but 'sys' is short for
> 'system' and, usually, means the discussion of whole computers, rather
> than
> accessories and peripherals.
>
> comp.sys.mac.portables is, as the name suggests, for the discussion of
> iBooks and PowerBooks and your post is off-topic there also.
>
> I am, therefore, removing the irrelevant groups from your post so this
> thread
> isn't propagated to groups where it's off topic.
>
> The only two groups were your post is really relevant are
> 'alt.music.mp3.hardware' and ''microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware' - I
> reckon it's probably OT in 'alt.music.mp3' too as that's (probably) for
> the
> discussion of actual MP3 files, rather than the players.
>
> You don't seem to realise that a Mac is a specific type of computer, not a
> generic term for anything Apple.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sarah
>

In article <michelle-D90ABB.21140731122005@news.west.cox.net>, Michelle
Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <1h8gjkp.14w4y5fxpos52N%usenet@alienrat.co.uk>,
> usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote:
>
> > To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from
> > the iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less
> > than they would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on
> > what I can listen to them on.
>
> You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.

Huh? Not without going to CD and then re-ripping. Music purchased from
the iTMS is DRM'ed and AAC (.m4p files). Most MP3 players won't play
AAC and they almost certainly won't play protected AACs.

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In article <311220052038390351%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.inval id>,
sbt <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:

> > You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any
> > device.
>
> Huh? Not without going to CD and then re-ripping. Music purchased
> from the iTMS is DRM'ed and AAC (.m4p files). Most MP3 players won't
> play AAC and they almost certainly won't play protected AACs.

Yeah, but it still can be done.

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