Apple iPod shuffle - Syncing Music Automatically

To sync music with iPod shue:
Simply connect iPod shue to your computer. If iPod shue is set to sync
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Important: If you connect iPod shue to a computer that it hasn’t synced with, a
message asks if you want to sync songs automatically. If you accept, all songs and
other audio content are erased from iPod shue and replaced with songs and other
items from that computer. If you don’t accept, you can still add songs to iPod shue
manually without erasing any of the songs already on iPod shue.
While music is being synced from your computer to iPod shue, the iTunes status
window shows progress, and you see a sync icon next to iPod shue in the list of
devices. When the update is done, you see the “iPod sync is complete” message in
iTunes. A bar at the bottom of the iTunes window displays how much disk space is
used by dierent types of content.
If you don’t choose to automatically sync music to iPod shue during setup, you can
do it later.
If there isn’t enough space on iPod shue for all your music, you can set iTunes to sync
only selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres.
To set iTunes to sync music from selected playlists, artists, genres, and albums to
iPod shue:
1 Connect iPod shue to your computer.
2 In iTunes, select iPod shue in the list of devices, and then click the Music tab.
3 Select “Sync music,” and then choose “Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres.”
4 Select the playlists, artists, albums, and genres you want.
5 To set iTunes to automatically ll any remaining space on iPod shue, select
“Automatically ll free space with songs.”
If you have Genius Mixes, iTunes uses them to ll the space rst. If there’s no room for
another Genius Mix, iTunes lls the remaining space on iPod shue with other songs.
6 Click Apply.
The update begins automatically.
If you select “Sync only checked songs” in the Summary pane, iTunes syncs only items
that are checked.
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Chapter 3 Setting Up iPod shue