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Annie won an iPod Shuffle. Despite wishing and hoping for it very hard, 2 days later she decides she doesn't want it. I buy it from her. I go to iTunes and download stuff, and rip (that term just sounds so wrong) songs from CDs. Today I plug the Shuffle into its little stand, make sure it's plugged into the USB port, start up iTunes, and nothing happens. iTunes seems to work fine but the Shuffle is nowhere to be seen. Could some whippersnapper instruct me through my ignorance?

BTW, the iceman's coming tomorrow, I gotta put the card out tonight.

It seems as though iTunes is not recognizing the Shuffle. Have you tried rebooting your computer, then plugging the Shuffle in again? Have you tried using a different USB port? That sometimes works as well.

Rexer25 wrote: BTW, the iceman's coming tomorrow, I gotta put the card out tonight.

Don't forget to trim the wicks on your oil lamps!

Switching USB ports did it. Now I've gotta see if the printer still works. If not, the USB port isn't working.

Thanks, PSM. I owe you one. OK, $10.

I am glad that I could help!

You use words I know in ways that make no sense.

Kinda like listening to me sometimes.

Why did Annie decide she didn't want it? I mean, is there a new model or something?

Kids turning down new electronics just seems to hard to believe. MarleysNephew had a new cell phone on our trip to WDW; a better status symbol for an eleven-year-old you could not imagine!

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why did Annie decide she didn't want it? I mean, is there a new model or something?

Kids turning down new electronics just seems to hard to believe. MarleysNephew had a new cell phone on our trip to WDW; a better status symbol for an eleven-year-old you could not imagine!

I think just going through iTunes to rip songs off of CDs she had made her think it wasn't going to be as much fun as she thought. I'll have a follow up with her tonight, and list my findings tomorrow.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why did Annie decide she didn't want it? I mean, is there a new model or something?

Kids turning down new electronics just seems to hard to believe. MarleysNephew had a new cell phone on our trip to WDW; a better status symbol for an eleven-year-old you could not imagine!

Demon Child's parents bought her a Shuffle, and she turned up her nose because you couldn't pick which song you wanted, and I think it lacked a display. So they got her a SansaFuze, which she promptly put in the washer. She got chocolate on her jacket and put the jacket in the wash and was going to run a load with just the jacket until her dad stopped her and added more clothes, so it's not like her parents didn't check her pockets first. She's got some Rain Man tendencies with OCD and tactile senstivity and their coming to a head now, so it's much harder than when you have early identification and intervention. Oy vey.

I got Mini-me the el cheapo Sansa with no video screen and he absolutely loves it. I have no fear he will voluntarily do laundry, since he has yet to voluntarily put his clothes anywhere but the floor.

Rain Man has an iPod Nano which he very rarely uses because iPods are a general pain in the ass and he's not a music guy. His has SpongeBob videos for car rides and plane trips. I prefer the kind that take regular old batteries and regular old MP3s myself, so I don't even try to confiscate his for my use. I hate iTunes. I much prefer Amazon Downloads, which puts a copy of the song into my iTunes folder AND you can transfer it somewhere else without a password, which makes it easier for Stephen to put stuff on his PSP.


So I understand a kid rejecting a Shuffle. My s-i-l is stuck with one her kid rejected.

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why did Annie decide she didn't want it? I mean, is there a new model or something?

Kids turning down new electronics just seems to hard to believe. MarleysNephew had a new cell phone on our trip to WDW; a better status symbol for an eleven-year-old you could not imagine!

Demon Child's parents bought her a Shuffle, and she turned up her nose because you couldn't pick which song you wanted, and I think it lacked a display. So they got her a SansaFuze, which she promptly put in the washer. She got chocolate on her jacket and put the jacket in the wash and was going to run a load with just the jacket until her dad stopped her and added more clothes, so it's not like her parents didn't check her pockets first. She's got some Rain Man tendencies with OCD and tactile senstivity and their coming to a head now, so it's much harder than when you have early identification and intervention. Oy vey.

I got Mini-me the el cheapo Sansa with no video screen and he absolutely loves it. I have no fear he will voluntarily do laundry, since he has yet to voluntarily put his clothes anywhere but the floor.

Rain Man has an iPod Nano which he very rarely uses because iPods are a general pain in the ass and he's not a music guy. His has SpongeBob videos for car rides and plane trips. I prefer the kind that take regular old batteries and regular old MP3s myself, so I don't even try to confiscate his for my use. I hate iTunes. I much prefer Amazon Downloads, which puts a copy of the song into my iTunes folder AND you can transfer it somewhere else without a password, which makes it easier for Stephen to put stuff on his PSP.


So I understand a kid rejecting a Shuffle. My s-i-l is stuck with one her kid rejected.

OK, I can understand that the lack of a display would be a problem. They don't have any way to select what you hear? I don't have an iAnything; I'm happy with my cheap little Sansa Clip.

But, Rexer, ripping Annie's CD collection is just a one-time chore (and it shouldn't take more than a couple minutes for each CD). After she's done with that, she'd have her whole music collection available to work with.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why did Annie decide she didn't want it? I mean, is there a new model or something?

Kids turning down new electronics just seems to hard to believe. MarleysNephew had a new cell phone on our trip to WDW; a better status symbol for an eleven-year-old you could not imagine!

Demon Child's parents bought her a Shuffle, and she turned up her nose because you couldn't pick which song you wanted, and I think it lacked a display. So they got her a SansaFuze, which she promptly put in the washer. She got chocolate on her jacket and put the jacket in the wash and was going to run a load with just the jacket until her dad stopped her and added more clothes, so it's not like her parents didn't check her pockets first. She's got some Rain Man tendencies with OCD and tactile senstivity and their coming to a head now, so it's much harder than when you have early identification and intervention. Oy vey.

I got Mini-me the el cheapo Sansa with no video screen and he absolutely loves it. I have no fear he will voluntarily do laundry, since he has yet to voluntarily put his clothes anywhere but the floor.

Rain Man has an iPod Nano which he very rarely uses because iPods are a general pain in the ass and he's not a music guy. His has SpongeBob videos for car rides and plane trips. I prefer the kind that take regular old batteries and regular old MP3s myself, so I don't even try to confiscate his for my use. I hate iTunes. I much prefer Amazon Downloads, which puts a copy of the song into my iTunes folder AND you can transfer it somewhere else without a password, which makes it easier for Stephen to put stuff on his PSP.


So I understand a kid rejecting a Shuffle. My s-i-l is stuck with one her kid rejected.

OK, I can understand that the lack of a display would be a problem. They don't have any way to select what you hear? I don't have an iAnything; I'm happy with my cheap little Sansa Clip.

But, Rexer, ripping Annie's CD collection is just a one-time chore (and it should take more than a couple minutes for each CD). After she's done with that, she'd have her whole music collection available to work with.

You're preaching to the choir, Marley. I really don't know why she didn't want it. Maybe she was looking forward to the DS she had been whining about for her birthday.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why did Annie decide she didn't want it? I mean, is there a new model or something?

Kids turning down new electronics just seems to hard to believe. MarleysNephew had a new cell phone on our trip to WDW; a better status symbol for an eleven-year-old you could not imagine!

Demon Child's parents bought her a Shuffle, and she turned up her nose because you couldn't pick which song you wanted, and I think it lacked a display. So they got her a SansaFuze, which she promptly put in the washer. She got chocolate on her jacket and put the jacket in the wash and was going to run a load with just the jacket until her dad stopped her and added more clothes, so it's not like her parents didn't check her pockets first. She's got some Rain Man tendencies with OCD and tactile senstivity and their coming to a head now, so it's much harder than when you have early identification and intervention. Oy vey.

I got Mini-me the el cheapo Sansa with no video screen and he absolutely loves it. I have no fear he will voluntarily do laundry, since he has yet to voluntarily put his clothes anywhere but the floor.

Rain Man has an iPod Nano which he very rarely uses because iPods are a general pain in the ass and he's not a music guy. His has SpongeBob videos for car rides and plane trips. I prefer the kind that take regular old batteries and regular old MP3s myself, so I don't even try to confiscate his for my use. I hate iTunes. I much prefer Amazon Downloads, which puts a copy of the song into my iTunes folder AND you can transfer it somewhere else without a password, which makes it easier for Stephen to put stuff on his PSP.


So I understand a kid rejecting a Shuffle. My s-i-l is stuck with one her kid rejected.

OK, I can understand that the lack of a display would be a problem. They don't have any way to select what you hear? I don't have an iAnything; I'm happy with my cheap little Sansa Clip.

But, Rexer, ripping Annie's CD collection is just a one-time chore (and it shouldn't take more than a couple minutes for each CD). After she's done with that, she'd have her whole music collection available to work with.

Why do they call it ripping? WHen I hear that term, I'm left with a mental picture of little strings of bits, which used to lead to music, but now end floating above the surface of the CD.

Or maybe that's just me.

I won a Shuffle from work (you may remember the environmental quizzes) and a $30 iTunes gift card. I had Son1111 download some free songs for me, but have not added any of the ones I wan to purchase yet.

But the status symbol for 14 yo boys here is the iTouch.

Husband1111 found a good deal on a reburbished one from Apple so he got one for XMas. Daughter1111 got a laptop for her birthday so there is no issue.

Rexer25 wrote: Why do they call it ripping? WHen I hear that term, I'm left with a mental picture of little strings of bits, which used to lead to music, but now end floating above the surface of the CD.

Or maybe that's just me.

http://www.theeggeadventure.com/QandA/ripping.htm

Rexer25 wrote:Annie won an iPod Shuffle. Despite wishing and hoping for it very hard, 2 days later she decides she doesn't want it. I buy it from her. I go to iTunes and download stuff, and rip (that term just sounds so wrong) songs from CDs. Today I plug the Shuffle into its little stand, make sure it's plugged into the USB port, start up iTunes, and nothing happens. iTunes seems to work fine but the Shuffle is nowhere to be seen. Could some whippersnapper instruct me through my ignorance?

BTW, the iceman's coming tomorrow, I gotta put the card out tonight.

Some of us whippersnappers still listen to a thing called the radio when we want to hear music.....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:Annie won an iPod Shuffle. Despite wishing and hoping for it very hard, 2 days later she decides she doesn't want it. I buy it from her. I go to iTunes and download stuff, and rip (that term just sounds so wrong) songs from CDs. Today I plug the Shuffle into its little stand, make sure it's plugged into the USB port, start up iTunes, and nothing happens. iTunes seems to work fine but the Shuffle is nowhere to be seen. Could some whippersnapper instruct me through my ignorance?

BTW, the iceman's coming tomorrow, I gotta put the card out tonight.

Some of us whippersnappers still listen to a thing called the radio when we want to hear music.....

lb13

It so happens that I have a device that stores MP3s but also has an FM radio on it, and it's only slightly larger than a thumb drive.

littlebeast13 wrote:Some of us whippersnappers still listen to a thing called the radio when we want to hear music.....

Yeah, but will you really be able to wait until next Halloween to hear "Dominic the Donkey" again?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Some of us whippersnappers still listen to a thing called the radio when we want to hear music.....

Yeah, but will you really be able to wait until next Halloween to hear "Dominic the Donkey" again?

I think I only got to hear it a couple times this year, and I survived....

And I didn't hear the damn Hippopotamus song a single time!!!!! That alone made it a wonderful Christmas season!!!!!

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote: And I didn't hear the damn Hippopotamus song a single time!!!!! That alone made it a wonderful Christmas season!!!!!

lb13

It came on as we pulled into the driveway at my s-i-l's house, so I rolled down the window and "sang" it at the top of my lungs to Demon Child, who had never heard it. Stephen was in the back pleading "get me out of here" because the doors don't open from the inside and he was trapped.........

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Some of us whippersnappers still listen to a thing called the radio when we want to hear music.....

Yeah, but will you really be able to wait until next Halloween to hear "Dominic the Donkey" again?

I think I only got to hear it a couple times this year, and I survived....

And I didn't hear the damn Hippopotamus song a single time!!!!! That alone made it a wonderful Christmas season!!!!!

lb13

Sorry, gramps, but whippersnappers don't know what a radio is and they don't use the word "wonderful."

I use my Creative Muvo TX mostly for listening to audiobooks downloaded from the public library, my mother liked that so much she got her own player, she's 80 and some of her friends are jealous.

Why it pays to read WHO posted something...

When I first saw the first post, my original thought was "What the hell is a dog going to do with an iPod???"

Then I noticed that it wasn't silvercamaro who posted it.

KillerTomato wrote:Why it pays to read WHO posted something...

When I first saw the first post, my original thought was "What the hell is a dog going to do with an iPod???"

Then I noticed that it wasn't silvercamaro who posted it.

Shows what you know.

Annie Camaro happens to love the opera! And Mr. Mozart!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

KillerTomato wrote:Why it pays to read WHO posted something...

When I first saw the first post, my original thought was "What the hell is a dog going to do with an iPod???"

Then I noticed that it wasn't silvercamaro who posted it.

Shows what you know.

Annie Camaro happens to love the opera! And Mr. Mozart!

All of this is true. She does not have an iPod, however, nor has she (so far) asked me to buy her one. Because she mastered the art of the tv remote control during her long convalescence of past years, she prefers to listen to the digital music opera channel. She occasionally complains if they spend too much time on avante-guard modern operas. When that happens, I tell her to send a stern e-mail to Cox Cable.

Rexer25 wrote:Why do they call it ripping? WHen I hear that term, I'm left with a mental picture of little strings of bits, which used to lead to music, but now end floating above the surface of the CD.

Or maybe that's just me.

I thought the word started life (in this context) as an acronym for "render into pixels." I'm certain I first encountered it about ten years ago in the digital imaging field. --Bob