Posted by Woody on 12/31/05 19:37

Timothy J. Trace <tim@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:37:20 +0000, usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
> wrote:
>
> >Timothy J. Trace <tim@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >why? You had a week with nothing to do?
>
> Ever count the number of steps and the time involved in dumping your
> load, then successfully wiping your arse with the goal of avoiding the
> "brown sweats?"

No idea what you are talking about there, sorry.

> Why do you presume that a simple 6-step procedure, 2 steps of which
> are downloading open-source programs, would take a week to complete?
>
> Oh, I get it. Sarcasm. Humor. Arr, arr.

No, I dont assume it would take 6 weeks, I just failed to understand why
you would need to do it. Is there are problem with iTunes, and if iTunes
has got such a problem, couldn't you have got something like an iRiver?

> It took no more than 6 minutes to complete the described process,
> including the 3 downloads and the 600MB data transfer to the shuffle.

So you got an iPod shuffle at 9:30, thought 'for some reason I want to
use this iPod shuffle without iTunes' and by 9:36 you had all your songs
on it?

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Woody

www.alienrat.com

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