I bought an ipd shuffle for my daughter. I have old songs from frostwire that I downloaded on the shuffle. When I try to play the songs, I get "Please use Itunes to sync music". What does that mean?

I bought an ipod shuffle and downloaded old limewire songs onto it. The ipod says "Please use itunes to sync music". What does that mean? Do I have to download from Itunes only? thanks, Jester

Dear jester,
Apple created iTunes to try and stop piracy, and if you look at the lime wire site, it says they were shut down for piracy.
You will have you buy all the music through iTunes or you can download music to iTunes from a CD.
I hope this help you.
~Philip

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Peeved person wrote:
Just purchased iPod shuffle and have problems downloading music from my itunes, I am a new player so if anyone can help me much appreciate, where is the devices??
READ: iPod shuffle (3rd generation) - User Guide @
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#ipod
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