Load Shared Music on Shuffle?

I have 2 Macs running iTunes. I have purchased music from the Apple Store on both computers. When running iTunes, I can play the shared library on my second computer, but I can not drag any songs from the shared library to my iPod Shuffle. How can I get songs from both computers onto my shuffle?
Kevin Hawkins

hi Chris
I don't believe you can load shared music onto the iPod. You can only listen to it in iTunes.
that's quite true. same goes for burning from shared playlists. so if Kevin wants music from both computers on an ipod, he would have to use one of the "using ipod with multiple computers" techniques. unfortunately, that's not so easy with an ipod shuffle. (which is covered in the user tip.)
love, b

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