Loading songs to Shuffle.

My buddy gave me the Shuffle player and I loaded songs from my iTunes that I had back then.
Now he wants newer songs. When I connect the Shuffler, a message asks if I want to Sync it or erase it. But there is no icon to show that Shuffler. It shows it under "MIKE"S IPOD".
All I want to do is change the songs and place new ones from my library.
Confused?
Thanks,
Mike

Here's what happened:
The Shuffle showed that it was listed as "MIKE'S IPOD," when actually it wasn't. That was just the name given to the Shuffle.
I cleared it and manually installed the songs of choice.
That work great.
I was just worried that it would actually remove my iPod songs or the Library songs.
They stayed safe.
Thanks.
Mike

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Hello,
I'm getting a little bit p.o.'d with the Shuffle I bought for my husband for Christmas.
Here is what's happening and what all I've done since last night...
Happening: I get the Shuffle to show up in the iTunes source list and can load it with 5 songs and then each time I try and drag another song onto it, I get the following error message:
"The iPod "MyPod" cannot be updated. The required disc cannot be found."
When I select the Shuffle from the source list, the songs I tried to load and received this message with show up with a grey circle/dot next to the number that the particular song would be in the Shuffle's list.
At first I thought maybe it was happening because a long time ago I had another computer and burned a disc of all the songs I purchased from the iTunes Music Store and then dragged into iTunes library on my new computer. So then I bought a new song last night and the same thing happened, same error message.
Here's what I've done so far:
I have removed/reinstalled iTunes 6 and the iPod updater. A couple times last night when trying to restore the Shuffle to factory settings, it didn't show up in the updater. I've trashed the plist files, repaired permissions, removed the iPodDriver.kext file, as told to do so in an Apple article.
I'm getting a wee bit frustrated and am hoping to get some help from all of your people here on the discussions!
I also noticed that none of these problems happen with my iPod Mini, just the Shuffle. Since I just got it yesterday, I will phone Apple support this morning when they open and will post back anything I learn, but I'm hoping someone here can help me (us) out before having to deal with Apple---I'm about to pull out my hair here and that's just not a good look for the Holidays, you know?!
Happy Holidays everyone!
Mary

Hi srb,
Actually my iPod Mini is called Mary's iPod and the Shuffle is called MyPod. They both show up in iTunes now and I found a "workaround" to get the songs on the shuffle, making a playlist and having the shuffle autoload from that list.
Thanks for the feedback and happy holidays!
Mary

Dumbo question from newby about loading songs to shuffle

HI,
I have a new shuffle and have opened a new playlist in itunes on my XP Pro box.
I have this playlist open when I import the mp3's from my HD but it takes them into the itunes default My Music playlist. I then have to drag it to the playlist I set up.
I put all the songs in the order I wanted them and then sent them to the shuffle. It said they were syncing etc and then finished.
It seems they didn't get to the shuffle in the order I wanted them.
Is the above process correct and the fastest, or is there a better way?
Thanks
oz

Here's what happened:
The Shuffle showed that it was listed as "MIKE'S IPOD," when actually it wasn't. That was just the name given to the Shuffle.
I cleared it and manually installed the songs of choice.
That work great.
I was just worried that it would actually remove my iPod songs or the Library songs.
They stayed safe.
Thanks.
Mike

Problems loading songs onto shuffle

i cant load anything onto my new 512 shuffle, it just says disk cannot be read or written to. ive tried to set it to enable disk use, but it never stays checked. ive tried to do it like it said in another post, by plugging it in, taking it out and using a add hardware wizard, but there is no wizard, and that didnt work at all. is it just me or is the shuffle useless, my nano works fine with this computer. i have the latest software. any help would be much appreciated.

Hi jr502:
Welcome to the forum!
We probably need a bit more info from you, but first, read what Apple says:
Restoring iPod shuffle to factory settings
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300701

Recently downloaded new ITunes. Can't get my 3rd generation iPod shuffle to load songs in order. Help????

Recently downloaded new iTunes. Now I can't get my 3rd generation iPod shuffle to load songs in order. Never had trouble with the old iTunes format.

I love the new version of Grid view but some of the other changes feel like they still need some fine tuning. And I miss cover flow even if I didn't use it that often...
You can restore much of the look & feel of the previous version with these shortcuts:
Ctrl-B to turn on the menu bar.
Ctrl-S to turn on the sidebar (your device should be listed here as before).
Ctrl-/ to turn on the status bar.
Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour.
Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (but perhaps it does more)
If you want to roll back to iTunes 10.7 first download a copy of the 32 bit installer or 64 bit installer as appropriate, uninstall iTunes and suppporting software, i.e. Apple Application Support & Apple Mobile Device Support. Reboot. Restore the pre-upgrade version of your library database as per the diagram below, then install iTunes 10.7.
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I just bought an ipod shuffle for my mother but when I try to load songs from itunes, the screen just seems to freeze until I disconnect shuffle.
I tried to restore it but it doesn't work ("error 1418" is all I can get).
I don't understand why since I have no problem with my ipod nano on the same computer.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304508
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What a pain -on a mac- never had aproblem- loaded a new shuffle with music - will not let me sync itunes store bought songs- will not let me authorize the computer. I have a ipod as well. Is this a block when loading a second device? OR?

In iTunes, do Store->View my AppleID
Click "Deuthorize ALL"
Then, on any computers you still have, do Store->Authorize this computer. If there are less than 5, you will have no problem.
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Ok, I have a iPod Shuffle and I have tried everything. I have reloaded and restored and even formated the iPod, nothing worked. I can not load any songs past 52. I have tried using different programs to load songs, but no success. Can anyone help??!!??!!

"Did you enable disc use and or adjust the "choose how much space will be reserved for songs versus data." in the settings?"
"Just going to mention that. =] Yes, to get to that, have your iPod plugged in and in the bottom right corner of iTunes you will see a little iPod, click it. Then in the window that pops up you will see a silde bar and make sure it is all the way on the songs side."
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When playing in "Shuffle" mode I see the song count in the upper left corner as 1 of 2897. Yet when going to "Settings, About" I see there are 3053 songs loaded on the iPod. I've owned this 20Gb unit for about 3 years and I don't remember these ever being different. Anyone know why?
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jb

Well I think it finally dawned on me why I'm getting a difference in the counts when playing in shuffle mode vs the total number of tunes on the iPod.
The newer version of iTunes has a checkbox to indicate,
"Skip When Shuffling". And yes I did take adavantage of this setting to exclude certain songs when "shuffling". Songs such as Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick. Although a great song it's 43+ minutes long and not something I care to listen to when I'm traveling and can't fast-forward to the next tune. The iPod usually resides in the trunk of my motorcycle and I can't skip a song quite as easily as one would think.
So you iPod gurus may want to take notice that the iTunes option of excluding during shuffle may throw off your tune counts.
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I finally got it to format and Itunes detects it as my IPS just like it should. I am able to load songs and the orange light is on like it should be. When I unplug it and try ti listen to it, the green light goes on but it wont play anything. Any help?

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lets try setting up your PC to collect a minidump of the crash. then, if it happens again, send it through to the Apple Engineers for a look. (they may be able to determine from that what driver is causing the grief.)
To set up your machine to capture a minidump, right click on "My Computer", select "Properties", select the "Advanced" tab, select the "Startup and Recovery" Settings button, select "small memory dump" from the popup. When it crashes, look for the MiniDump file. It's usually in the folder "C:\WINDOWS\Minidump" and is called something like Mini<number>-<number>.dmp.
the next time the PC crashes like this, find that file and send it as an attachment to this email address.
in the email to Roy, be sure to include the following information:
- A link to the thread on Apple Discussions where the issue is being discussed
- The username you are using in the thread
- The version of iTunes you are using or trying to use
- the version of Windows you are using (mention service packs)
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Play ends when song ends - Shuffle and Continuous Play not working

I'm pretty sure I did not install an update prior to this starting. Since the problem began, however, I uninstalled iTunes and reinstalled to see if that would solve the problem and it did not.
I typically play songs, on shuffle, from my main library. When I open iTunes shuffle is automatically selected and I click on the play button to choose a random song. Since this past thursday when I click the play button nothing happens. I have to manually choose a song to play. Once the song has ended iTunes does not choose another song (if on shuffle) nor does it play the proceeding song on the list (if on normal play). In order to play another song I have to choose another. Once that song ends I have to select another and so on.
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Loading songs to Shuffle.

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