On Sunday, 20 August 2006 3:47, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
I just got an ipod shuffle, 1gig, for free. Apparently it has
different partitions for music/data and must by synced with iTunes to
a specific machine?
Err, is that so?
If so, can I just format the darn thing and use if for mp3's?
-Thufir
Windows formatted iPods have 2 partitions, one containing the firmware, the
other containing music and other data.
Formatting the data partition will most likely leave it in a condition where
it has to be restored using the apple firmware updater on windows or osx as
important files will be deleted.
Amarok or gtkpod are probably the easiest ways to get music onto the ipod. You
can't simply copy music onto the data partition as it requires all the
metadata to be in a special database that the previous two programs can
generate.
ps. Surely a mentat would be able to work all this out on their own ;)
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