Re: Syncing (was Re: DRM can bite my ass)

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From: Patrick Quinn-Graham
Subject: Re: Syncing (was Re: DRM can bite my ass)
Date: 16:35 on 05 Dec 2006
On 5-Dec-06, at 3:35 AM, sabrina downard wrote:

> the really sad thing is that, all this notwithstanding, i'm still
> pathetic enough to want one of the new tiny clippy shuffles.  there's
> a word for people like me.

Having never had an original shuffle,  I don't know if this is  
different, and maybe it'd do the same thing if the iTunes/iPod  
relationship gets screwed up by the iTunes library being turned into  
an older version of itself, but the new iPod shuffle does nothing  
automatically. Oh sure, you can hit the button and it starts  
autofilling (or actually change stuff), but unless you do that it  
just sits there charging.

As to syncing it - other than a limited amount of metadata and on-the- 
go playlists (and now iTunes store purchases), the iPod has never had  
two way sync. The iPods-with-screens all go "Oh! This isn't my  
computer.... are you wanting me to get all cozy with it now?", but  
again... I don't know if restoring your library files would make  
iTunes think it was the same machine again.

* I got mine for $6 as part of a deal.

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