Comments | flonnebonne: Technical difficulties because I do not know how to use these fancy ipod things

flonnebonne

Technical difficulties because I do not know how to use these fancy ipod things

Feb 01, 2010 18:22

My aunt gave me one of those tiny 2nd gen (?) ipod shuffles a couple years ago (I think she got it for free from signing up for something). At the time I fiddled with the software a bit, tried to make it into a drag-and-drop device (because there's no way I'm going to use itunes for a 1GB player), but I never succeeded. Then I got really busy and ( Read more... )

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februaryfour February 2 2010, 02:43:11 UTC

Yamipod worked _beautifully_ with a 2nd gen iPod. Not quite 100% drag-and-drop, as you need to use the program, but you can drag and drop into the program.

flonnebonne February 3 2010, 23:04:46 UTC

Excellent, I will try Yamipod out. I'm guessing there isn't a program that can make an ipod purely drag-and-drop...not without some kind of drawback, at any rate.

februaryfour February 4 2010, 00:05:04 UTC

Not that I know of. ^_^

juin February 2 2010, 08:27:47 UTC

I'm pretty sure it's something you need to turn on in iTunes (enable manual something something something), after which you can drag and drop stuff onto it like a memory stick.

flonnebonne February 3 2010, 23:03:47 UTC

I'd prefer to avoid itunes altogether though...it makes my old crappy 512MB RAM laptop cry. I'ma gonna try out Yamipod, the program Ai suggested.

juin February 3 2010, 23:38:59 UTC

But it's not like you need to constantly use iTunes? It's just the one time, to turn on the thing.

flonnebonne February 9 2010, 03:59:07 UTC

Huh, I'll have to try that. Sounds so nice and easy!