Ipod shuffle - music and audiobook
I've just bought an ipod shuffle and loaded an audiobook on to it which was fine. I then loaded some music and whilst it appears in the itunes book folder I can't work out how to listen to it on the ipod shuffle?
I have one of those shuffles too. The 1st and 2nd gen shuffles were designed to work like single playlist. You can either play the items in playlist order, or in random order (shuffle mode).
So, you can do the following. Put all the items you want on the shuffle, including the audiobook. Select the shuffle in the sidebar so that its content listing is shown to the right. Drag the audiobook to the top of the list, so that it is the first item in the playlist order.
Now, when you use your shuffle and want to listen to the audiobook instead of songs, put the shuffle's switch in play-in-order mode. Triple-press the center button. That will take you to the first item of the shuffle's playlist, which will be the audiobook.
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....or should I just roll it back to iOS 5... never had these kinds of issues with the old OS.Try:
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all AB and resync
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http://mobile.audible.com/faqiPhone.htm
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iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
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HT1923 When I uninstall i-Tunes, won't I lose all my music, and audiobooks on the computer?
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+My uninformed guess is that this is an issue with the audio encoding. You used to hear this kind of frequency distortion on early (bad) MP3 codecs.+
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2G iPod Shuffle, It can't walk and chew gum!Wrong answer, unfortunately, and your example (while
correct - it won't play when connected to a USB port)
doesn't fit the question asked.
In fact, you CAN play the 1G Shuffle through the
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are doing that in any number of applications where
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or whatever.
It plays out of the jacks, not out of the base, and
that is why it doesn't work on the 2G model; there's
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dock even as we speak, something that will be a
slightly bulkier version of the current one but will
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to do that).
Not all USB chargers are created equal and, while
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connected in the charger bases themselves, and there
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can work around that.
Thanks, that was my suspicion and hope.
I tried fabricating a 'y' for the 2G with a 4 conductor 3.5mm female (to the iPod Shuffle dock), 4 conductor male (to the iPod Shuffle) and a 3 conductor female for audio out.
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2 questions.
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Tafferstaffers wrote:
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