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Title: MP3 music--update!
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Blog Entry:       Last night I was wrestling with my iPod Shuffle; I wanted to change the music on it.  Little did I know what a huge hassle it would turn out to be!         My son was here & told me I had been doing it all wrong! Well, I told him: it worked for 3 yrs!  My best friend gave me the iPod Shuffle as a birthday gift 3 yrs ago; not knowing any better, I just 'copied' my favorite music to it from my computer. And yes--it worked just fine! It  got me through a lot of dental work the last 2 yrs: when the drill started to bug me, I'd turn up the sound!  But recently, I decided I wanted to dump those songs and replace them with soothing music.       Needless to say, it didn't work!  First, when I hooked it up to my computer, those (previous) songs didn't show up, even though they 'played' when I turned it on.   And then, when I 'added' songs, they showed up when it was hooked to the computer;but they didn't show up when I tried to use it.         So, being "smart" (not!), I clicked on FORMAT.   Then when I turned it on, it told me  I had to use iTunes!    I downloaded iTunes--and never could figure it out!!   The darn thing told me my iPod Shuffle was 'corrupted'--so I clicked on the fix item. Ha.  It kept  telling me it was 'open' in another program.   My son even tried to 'fix' it. Nope. Wasn't working.  Now, I didn't even have the 'first group' of songs on there!!    My sister called and when I told her what we were doing, she said: Why not just put your music on your phone?   My reply: why would I do that?   She said, that's what she does.  I replied: you have a Smartphone--I don't.  True, I can put music on my phone; but it sounds bad & it would run my battery down faster.  But...there's a bright side: while looking for something else in my 'office supplies' file cabinet, I found a cheap mp3 player!  And yes...it works great!    So...when I finally found my 2010 CD of ALL my music, I was able to put my 'soothing' music on that mp3 player. Yay!  And as a PS: my son just took the iPod Shuffle home with him; he'll try to 'fix' it on his computer--and then I can either add music myself, or give him a SD card with the songs I wnt on there, & let him put them on.  My son brought back the iPod Shuffle last night: all fixed! We put the music I wanted on it & it works great; & I now can add/change music any time I want.    Later, I Googled how to change the 'name' on it because when he 'restored' it on his computer, it automatically became "Michael's iPod", lol; now, it's back to "Dianne's iPod"!