Fenrir Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 I got an iPod Shuffle for Christmas and now i'm in the process of downloading iTunes so I can put music on it to listen to. Is there anything in particular I should know before getting started? It tells me I have to "sync" my music to iTunes. I'm curious as to what that actually entails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoke Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Basically it means putting your music in the main iTunes playlist, hooking up the Shuffle, and letting it transfer the files to the Shuffle. This is also all you need to do. If you add or change stuff later on, synching again makes sure the changes exist on both your PC and on the Shuffle. The term synching(synchronizing) itself refers simply to making sure both have the same data on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horseboy Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 If you have winamp, use the ml_ipod plugin, it is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiremanJoe Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 So what's the deal with files disappearing...? I hear if you connect to another pc, your stuff disappears from it =S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerrax Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 So what's the deal with files disappearing...? I hear if you connect to another pc, your stuff disappears from it =S iTunes 7 does that. It has happened to my sister and my friend. Its a copyright protection thing. Since an iPod can only be synced to 1 computer at a a time, if you plug it into another computer, it erases all the files on it so that you can't copy files from one computer to another. I guess they figure if you've got the music on your computer, then you won't mind it all getting blown off your iPod. Yeah, Apple's getting a little paranoid with their software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 You *won't* erase the contents of your iPod unless you choose to. you can, for example, plug in your ipod into someone else's computer to power it. The only thing you have to be sure not to do is say that you want to sync your iPod with someone else's computer when iTunes asks you. If you say no, then it will power fine and you won't lose your files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazygecko Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 ie, you should have gotten an alternate mp3 player. There are plenty of ones that don't require any extra ridiculous software (Especially iTunes which requires the hellspawn known as Quicktime), AND you can store pretty much anything you want on them so they act as portable HDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoke Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 You can use an iPod as an external storage drive just as easily as any other MP3 player, and iTunes is not a requirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strati Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Okay, I've got a problem with iTunes. I have roughly 2300 songs in my library, and three songs are acting up weirdly: they're not reporting the song length correctly. In Flames's "Scorn" is reporting a minute longer than it actually is, DevilDriver's "Hold Back the Day" is returning four minutes longer than it actually is, and, also DevilDriver, "The Fury of our Maker's Hand" is reporting a minute short. The ones that are being reported longer are no problem when I listen to on my iPod (it sends the same song length over), they cut off when the song is actaully over and go to the next song, but the one that reports too short is actually cut there on the iPod, and I don't like that, as it's one of my favorite songs and I'm losing a minute. I've deleted the files from the library and readded, and it still returns the same length. Anyone know how to deal with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horseboy Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Do they play correctly on your pc with a different player than iTunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I'd suggest burning them to a CD and ripping them, or if you don't want the quality hit from doing so, try and download them from another source. As far as I can tell, it's the fault of the files. I have a couple songs that are roughly 4-5 minutes that are listed as around 24 in both iTunes and Winamp. There might also be a program out there that fixes the playing times on songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telii Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'd suggest burning them to a CD and ripping them, or if you don't want the quality hit from doing so, try and download them from another source. As far as I can tell, it's the fault of the files. I have a couple songs that are roughly 4-5 minutes that are listed as around 24 in both iTunes and Winamp. There might also be a program out there that fixes the playing times on songs. Or, you know, just get a free audio conversion tool and recreate the file that way instead of going to all the trouble of burning a CD and ripping from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiremanJoe Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Or, you know, just get a free audio conversion tool and recreate the file that way instead of going to all the trouble of burning a CD and ripping from it. Or you could create an .iso, mount it with Daemontools and then rip from that? (not sure if that works.. just an idea I had) Also, do other programs do the same thing to the iPod, or is it just iTunes that does it? Cos I was thinking of using WinAmp w/ plugin (my sister has an iPod and has had some problems, not me.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerrax Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Or you could create an .iso, mount it with Daemontools and then rip from that? (not sure if that works.. just an idea I had)Also, do other programs do the same thing to the iPod, or is it just iTunes that does it? Cos I was thinking of using WinAmp w/ plugin (my sister has an iPod and has had some problems, not me.) I believe its something that iTunes 7 does, but I can't say that for certain. All I know is none of these deletion problems occured until iTunes 7 was released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tardigrade Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 My Shuffle won't update any more, when I try to do anything with it in iTunes it gives me the message The iPod cannot be updated. An unknown error occured (-50). Does anybody know what I should do to fix this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strati Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 The songs play just fine on the computer. It's when they're on the iPod that they trip out. I don't have any CDs on me, so what are you suggesting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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