Shuffle Questi

I have a 40GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra and have some issues with the shuffle feature. Whenever I use the shuffle mode, it will only shuffle the whole dri've. I would like to shuffle just an artist, album or playlist. Is this possible? Thanks.

I'm having the same problem.. I have a play list that is ONLY COUNTRY, and that's all I want it to play/shuffle. But when I select shuffle it shuffles everything on my player.
I've even gone to selected music, selected my All Country playlits, and then selected again PLAY MODE, and selected Shuffle and it again shuffles the whole dri've...

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I could not disconnect in a manner that satisfied the MAC even after ejecting from all three places. However, after connecting and disconnecting about 20 times, setting up an Apple ID 3 or 4 times, and randomly clicking various parts of the itunes windows for a few hours, I finally was able to delete and reload songs and actually have the Shuffle play more than two. I can now forward to more than one song at a time.
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New 3rd Gen. 4 GB iPod Shuffle not being recognized by computer or iTunes

Hey everyone, I've read some of the other posts here on this thread about other people having problem getting their computer to recognize the new 4 GB iPod Shuffle when plugged into the USB drive, and it seems like I am having a very similar issue. I just received my iPod in the mail a few days ago and tried plugging it into the USB and got NO response whatsoever from my computer or iTunes. I am operating with Windows XP (Service Pack 3) on a Dell Inspiron Intel processor, 2 GHz with 3 GB RAM, with iTunes 8.1 (just updated). When I put something in my USB usually I hear a noise (sounds like DO-do ha) which tells me that my laptop recognizes whatever is plugged in, and usually I get a little box in the bottom right hand part of the screen that says it's been plugged in. I didn't get any of this when I plugged it in.
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IPod Shuffle Not Recognized In Windows Or iTunes v7.0 - What Now?

Hello everyone,
I am having the same problem as many who have posted here. I have upgraded my software to iTunes v7.0.1.8. I also accepted the auto update for my iPod Shuffle - 512GB 1st Gen to v 1.44 (I believe). Of course, now my Shuffle is not recognized in iTunes and is only recognized in Windows for less than 5 seconds (as I have monitored it). I am listing below all of the actions I have taken today.
As none of these have worked, my question is now what? Does anyone have any other suggestions before I take the dreaded step of calling support? Any help is appreciated.
I am not happy with this upgrade issue at all. I expect much better from Apple.
Steps Already Taken:
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2. Set Terminal Services to "Manual" and restarted my laptop PC.
3. Changed all USB Root Hub entries power management options to "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power option" and rebooted.
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I have had no problems with my iPod until this morning. I have the latest version of iTunes and recharge my battery pretty regularly on the shuffle. However, this morning my iPod isn't showing up in iTunes or on my USB port. It's not even charging. I tried 4 out of the 5 R's, but can't do the last because the iPod icon isn't showing up. It still plays songs with the battery life left.
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Hi hmacross,
I tried one of the options in the link you provided, 'iPod not recognized when connected to Windows laptop over USB'. It didn't work but now my Shuffle is flashing orange as it does when it is charging on my XP machine. So at least we have power to it I think.
I still have do detection in Windows Explorer, Device Manager or iTunes however.
All the other options I have already tried.
Still scratching my head lol.
Thanks for you help anyway. Got any other ideas?

IPod Shuffle=Can't read or write to-Can't Sync-Can't Update-or Restore-Can'

%*#.........."What the ???"..........#*% Tell ya wot.... I Aint Happy.... (òó) ( not impressed at all )
Whats goin on here ??? I've never had a problem with my Shuffle or Itunes, everythin was fine untill I updated to 'Itunes 7' and now its dead as a door nail. Upgrading to Itunes 7 all went fine, no glitches at all. Plugged my Ipod in, all is good as I can see it there. Itunes rebuilt my music library ( all is still good ) I rebuilt my playlists ( yep, all is still good ) I set it to autofill from my playlist ( cool, nearly there ) next I chose to Sync my Ipod, and it says "Updating iPod. Do not disconnect" so ok, thats alright, I'm sittin here waiting for it to sync, & waiting, .....& waiting, ...... still waiting...... eventually, up pops an error message sayin "The iPod cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to." So I press Ok and find that iTunes has frozen briefly, after a minute it comes good with another message, "The iPod cannot be updated. An unknown error occured {-50}."
Ok, to cut a long story short.... I have updated the iPod software version, and it says "Your iPod is up to date"
Now everytime it tries to sync it fails so I chose to hit the 'Restore' button. It seems to to be happening but that also ends up failing with same error message. I've tried everything,.. the 5 R's... I downloaded & ran the program 'iPod Restore Utility' (it failed also) same message... 'Cannot read or write to... ' Gettin frustrated now cause I've done everything I can think of at least 2 or 3 times including uninstalling & reinstalling iTunes and starting from scratch. (yes, 2 or 3 times) & yes, I can tell you, " I'M SICK OF IT !!! "
Windows cant even see it anymore ( XP pro sp2 ). When I'm in iTunes I can see my iPod is there, but its not seen in Windows. But when I eject/disconnect it from iTunes the 'iPod Drive Icon' briefly appears in My Computer for only a second or 2 then vanishes. That happens wether "enable for disk usage" is ticked on or off. I'll just say 1 other thing & that is, I havent bumped or dropped my shuffle or wrongly plugged or unplugged it in any way at all. I have allways treated it with the utmost respect and it 'used to be' in perfect condition.
So what do you all think ? Do you agree that itunes killed my lil Shuff ???
%*# D~~m You iTUNES #*% and %*# D~~m You APPLE #*% for takin my lil Shuff from me. It was a gift from a special someone, and my very 1st and only MP3 player I've ever had.
Well, there you go, now I've had my say can I ask just one thing ?
" Can anyone offer any other suggestions that I could try ? ..............and plz, dont say " GET OVER IT " lol

Here is the answer: go to http://support.apple.com In the search box at the top left type in the number 304996 and hit enter. This will bring you to a page with 4 solutions. Click on solution number 1 and follow the instructions. This should fix it.
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"The IPOD cannot be udpated. The disk could not be read from or written to."
I have downloaded the updates, reset the IPOD, and all goes well until I try to drag a song from my hard drive onto the IPOD and I get the error message.
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SOLUTION: Windows Vista + iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen

My original question on this topic is closed, but I finally fixed the problem and wanted to share.
The problem was: Windows Vista Basic desktop machine and iTunes would recognize a Video iPod, but not recognize an iPod second generation Shuffle
The symptom: Vista showed an unknown USB device and kept searching for drivers, but never could find an appropriate driver. Some posts here and there suggested a power level problem on the USB ports.
The solution: the original USB 2.0 ports on this computer are all driven directly off of the motherboard. I purchased a $20 PCI USB card and installed it in the computer. I plugged the iPod shuffle into the new PCI card, and everything works fine now.
HTH

And since you have a laptop, a new PCI card does no good. Another solution I saw around the web was to use a powered external USB 2.0 hub. You might try that.

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