Posted by Timothy J. Trace on 12/31/05 08:02

Hi, I have managed to load my wife's 1GB shuffle without using iTunes.
I am not experiencing the blinking orange green LED symptom of an
improperly loaded shuffle. This is on a Windows XP system.

Most of the explanation can be found here:
http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net

Let me summarize for you...

First I formatted my shuffle as a FAT32 drive. I left it completely
blank.

I created a folder (the name is of no consequence) on the root of the
shuffle, and copied 600MB of MP3s into the folder.

Then I unzipped this file to the root of the iPod:
http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/ipod_root.zip

I installed Python: http://www.python.org

I extracted the rebuild_db.py file from this archive to the root of
the shuffle:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136446

I ran rebuild_db.py from the root of the shuffle. I had only to
double-clicked it because I had already installed Python.

I disconnected the shuffle and rocked out to 106 songs :D

Best regards,

Tim ==
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