Apple iPod shuffle - Adding Music to iPod shuffle; Adding Content Automatically or Manually

Adding Music to iPod shue
After your music is imported and organized in iTunes, you can easily add it to
iPod shue.
To manage how songs and other audio content are added to iPod shue from your
computer, you connect iPod shue to your computer, and then use iTunes preferences
to choose iPod shue settings.
Adding Content Automatically or Manually
You can set iTunes to add music to iPod shue in two ways:
 Automatically syncing: When you connect iPod shue to your computer, iPod shue
is automatically updated to match the songs and other items in your iTunes library.
If Genius is turned on the rst time you sync iPod shue, iTunes uses up to four
Genius Mixes created from your iTunes library to ll iPod shue. If any free space
remains, iTunes syncs additional songs from your iTunes library. If Genius isn’t turned
on, iTunes syncs songs and playlists from your iTunes library to ll iPod shue.
Later, you can modify automatic syncing options to include selected playlists, artists,
albums, and genres. You can also automatically sync other audio, including podcasts,
audiobooks, and iTunes U collections. See the following sections for more information.
 Manually managing music: When you connect iPod shue, you can drag individual
songs and playlists to iPod shue, and delete individual songs and playlists from
iPod shue. Using this option, you can add songs from more than one computer
without erasing songs from iPod shue. When you manage music manually,
you must always eject iPod shue from iTunes before you can disconnect it. See
“Managing iPod shue Manually” on page 20.
Syncing Music Automatically
By default, iPod shue is set to sync all songs and playlists when you connect it to
your computer. This is the simplest way to add audio content to iPod shue—you just
connect iPod shue to your computer, let it add songs, audiobooks, audio podcasts,
and iTunes U collections automatically, and then disconnect it and go. If you added
any songs to iTunes since the last time you connected iPod shue, they’re synced with
iPod shue as space allows. If you deleted songs from iTunes, they’re removed from
iPod shue.
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Chapter 3 Setting Up iPod shue