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Old February 4th, 2008, 06:49 PM
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Question Need some help with a iShuffle

I don't know if it's just an option that needs to be checked or what the problem is, but here is the situation.

I bought a pink ishuffle for my mum for her birthday, she will give it to me to put songs on it for her. If I take the songs out of itunes or off the computer the next time I plug in the shuffle those songs will disappear off the shuffle as well.

I don't want to have to keep all the songs on my computer (or in itunes) but that is the only way at the moment for them to stay on the ishuffle.

Any suggestions?

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Old February 4th, 2008, 07:00 PM
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Remember that iTunes is what manages the songs on your iPod shuffle. If you remove them from there, the iPod shuffle will do the same. You can remove them from your library without deleting them completely, but the changes will be synced back to the iPod shuffle.

What you can do is see about getting an external hard drive and moving your iTunes folder to that drive. This way, you free up the space on your main system drive and still have enough space on the external drive to hold all your music.
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Is it only iShuffle that works that way?

I have a nano and I can delete them off the computer and out of itunes and they are still saved on the nano.

It's not my shuffle so I don't really want to get an external drive just for itunes. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Is there no way for the songs to be saved on the shuffle?
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Old February 4th, 2008, 08:24 PM
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The Shuffle shouldn't handle song sync'ing any differently than the Nano. Once you have the Shuffle set up with the songs you want, switch to manual syncing.
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Old February 4th, 2008, 10:31 PM
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Do you know where you can set it to manual syncing? I know where for the Nano but can't find it with the shuffle.
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Old February 5th, 2008, 12:06 AM
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Sorry, if it is not on the same page, then I have no idea.
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Old February 16th, 2008, 11:39 AM
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No there isn't that option the page is a little different than the ipod page.

Anyone else know how to stop them from disappearing off the ishuffle if I take them off the computer/itunes?

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Old February 22nd, 2008, 09:07 PM
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anyone?
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