ITunes newbie... bought MPEG AAC protected songs,wont drag over to Shuffle?

I bought 3 songs from I Tunes store and all are "protected AAC". What to do...

I think what your problem is is that you have the Shuffle on automatic sync mode, that means that iTunes automatically loads songs onto your iPod and you can't do it manually. To put these songs on your Shuffle I would suggest in iTunes when your SHuffle is plugged in to go to the bottom right hand corner and click on the little iPod button. This will open up the iPod options. Then when it says auto-sync, select manual sync and you should be good to go.

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