iPod shuffle - loading without iTunes

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G.T. said:
Yes, I know, but his instructions would apply just as well to this
laptop running OpenBSD so I'm glad he went to the trouble of posting
his summary.
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It probably would have done more good had he posted it to an openBSD
newsgroup than to Mac and Windows newsgroups.
 
Eric Kay said:
Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.
I buy a lot from iTunes because in many cases it is *less* expensive than
CDs.
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To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from the
iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less than they
would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on what I can
listen to them on.
 
Timothy J. Trace said:
Unless iTunes has changed, and *please* correct me if I'm wrong,
songs that you download to the player are not backed up on the host
PC.
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You are wrong, and things have not changed; they've always remained on
the host computer.
 
Eric said:
Timothy J. Trace wrote:




Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.
I buy a lot from iTunes because in many cases it is *less* expensive than
CDs.
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I've got a modest 800 CDs now and none of them are the mainstream crap
available on iTMS.

Greg
 
Garner Miller said:
Nah... I haven't seen anyone correct his spelling or grammar yet. Heh.
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Stop criticizing him. With your attitude, you're just as bad as the
Nazis.

(OK, now we're done...)

- geoff
 
Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.
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I've been buying CDs since at least 1987.
You're waging war on iTunes but don't know your enemy? Why don't
you try it and see what you're missing...
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I'm not waging war. I'm avoiding in ignorance :>
 
You are wrong, and things have not changed; they've always remained on
the host computer.
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Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
library book, to the player?

Is there a FAQ on this stuff?
 
Paul said:
Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and potentially
useful nugget of information and then all hell breaks loose as the
fanboys, netcops, pedants and nit-pickers rip him to shreds. What's not
to love ?
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Agreed. I thought it was a cool hack. What the hell. There was a day
when folks were encouraged to play around computers and make them work
the way YOU want. What the hell :-)
 
Paul Russell:
Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and potentially
useful nugget of information...
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This is obviously some strange usage of the word "useful" that I wasn't
previously aware of.
...and then all hell breaks loose as the
fanboys, netcops, pedants and nit-pickers rip him to shreds. What's not
to love ?
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Well, we haven't heard from the "Intelligent Design" nutsos yet.

Davoud
 
This is only a summary!? My sincerest sympathy if old age took your
dearly beloved wife while she was waiting to listen to her music.
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C'mon, Dave, gimme a break. Seriously.

With the setup complete, successive music downloads to the shuffle are
simple. All you do is plug in the shuffle, Windows pops open the
drive in an explorer window for you, drag and drop the tunes into the
Music folder, double click the scriptfile, then shut down the USB
connection before disconnecting the shuffle.

That's precisely 1 more step than required with iTunes (running the
scriptfile), and it takes exactly 2 mouse clicks and 3 seconds to
complete.
You Windows guys are a real trip -- always reliable for a laugh! You
might have better spent your time working on this
<http://tinyurl.com/8hcl9>!
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Hah, are we going to bring troll crap like that into an unrelated
thread? You fanbois are a real trip -- always reliable behavior.

You should know by now, the biggest target takes the most bullets.
HaXXoR dudes are not going to waste time attacking what, 4% or 5%..?
of the world's computers, when they can set their sights on larger
targets.
 
Timothy J. Trace said:
Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
library book, to the player?
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You download it, and it goes where you have put the library. You can
pick it up and move it if you want.
Is there a FAQ on this stuff?
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Probably on the apple site, www.apple.com/itunes I would imagine.
 
[QUOTE="Davoud said:
Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and
potentially useful nugget of information...
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This is obviously some strange usage of the word "useful" that I
wasn't previously aware of.[/QUOTE]

Well, it might be useful to *nix users.
 
Timothy J. Trace said:
Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
library book, to the player?
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It's always downloaded to the local computer; you don't have to select a
destination for it. You then load it into iTunes; it's not checked out,
but remains both on the computer's disk, and in the iPod.

Further, if you have a CD that you want to copy to an iPod, you first
copy it to the local computer, using iTunes (or copy it with the
Finder--or the Windows equivalent--and import it into iTunes), then load
it into the iPod.
Is there a FAQ on this stuff?
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The Help menu in iPod.
 
To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from
the iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less
than they would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on
what I can listen to them on.
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You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.
 
Michelle said:
You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.
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Huh? Not without going to CD and then re-ripping. Music purchased from
the iTMS is DRM'ed and AAC (.m4p files). Most MP3 players won't play
AAC and they almost certainly won't play protected AACs.
 
You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any
device.
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Huh? Not without going to CD and then re-ripping. Music purchased
from the iTMS is DRM'ed and AAC (.m4p files). Most MP3 players won't
play AAC and they almost certainly won't play protected AACs.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but it still can be done.
 
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