iPod = Easy?

Wasn’t for me. A non-computer literate person at work was given a iPod Shuffle for his birthday a couple weeks ago. He asked me today to take some music CDs and put them on the iPod. Took a lot longer than it should, maybe because I’m not an Apple guy. I had to load iTunes and it went on willy-nilly installing and littering my task tray and desktop with Apple icons. I figured out how to load the burnt MP3s to the library, no problem, but couldn’t get them on the iPod. Every time I plugged in the iPod it would say, “Updating iPod, don’t disconnect.” But nothing was put on the player and I did have the little square in front of the song checked. I did say yes to something erased the poor fellows existing music though, so I had to get something back on there…

All the options I wanted seemed to be grayed out or missing. Where was the menu item that said load these songs to the iPod? Turns out you have to click on the little iPod thing on the left side and drag and drop the files on it.

Now that I’ve done it the “hard” way, I’m going to see if I can do it the easy way – using a freeware program called Shuffler. Then I can unload iTunes from my PC.

How do you keep those ear bud cords from getting tangled? Seems like every time I put them down I have to spend the next couple minutes untangling them.