Need some help with a iShuffle

[Lt Major Burns]

what you can do is create a new user on your mac (or on windows). this will have a clean itunes on it, which you can have as your mother's itunes library. this way you can keep your music seperate from your mum's, and everyone's happy. just log in to the alternative account to sync your mother's ipod.

[cheekymac]

I don't care if they are in itunes or on the computer for that matter, but they take up too much space on the computer.

So I want them to be save on the shuffle so I can delete them off the computer.

(Like I do for my nano)

[ElDiabloConCaca]

While this is possible to do with iPods and iTunes, it's not the way they were intended to be used. "Syncing" the iPod implies that the shuffle will be a partial "mirror" of what's on your computer -- if it's not on the computer, it "shouldn't" be on the iPod.

The idea is that the iPod is kind of like a "satellite" to the computer -- you can take some of your computer's music with you. Having music on the iPod that is not also on the computer is counter-intuitive to the "syncing" idea.

The iPod shuffle is a "special" iPod, in that it lacks certain features that the other iPods have, mainly the ability to manually sync music (and thus have songs on the iPod that are not on the computer):

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300657

That article, on the other hand, specifically mentions this:

Can I manually add music or do I have to use the Autofill feature?
You can manually drag songs from your iTunes library or other playlist to the iPod shuffle icon.

What I take that to mean, though, is that when you connect the shuffle, it will auto-fill automatically, but then you have the option after that to manually drag songs over to the shuffle.