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I posted recently about a fake iPod shuffle that I had received. I charged it up and inserted a micro sd card. It showed up on the desktop just fine so I copied over some mp3 music and it plays them just fine. There is a slight hissing sound when no music is playing but it is not noticeable otherwise. The player accepted a 16gb card so it will hold a lot of music. The only downside is it won't play aac files so anything I've purchased from the iTunes store (even without drm) won't play. I would say it is a "fair" deal since it only cost me $10 for the memory card. It is going into my mom's work vehicle tomorrow and then I will get some feedback on how long the battery lasts.
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I found another oddity. If I place the mp3 files into folders, labeled by artist, it will only play music from the first folder (alphabetical). I couldn't find a way to make it jump to another folder. So I used PathFinder to add the artist name to the beginning of each mp3 file so the music can all be at the same level but I know what is what in case mom wants me to remove some music by artist.
Also, as far as I can tell it does not "shuffle" the music at all. It just plays one song right after the last in alphabetical order.
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I've been doing some research on this since your posting. Most of these sold at Amazon are under $10 and don't do anything more than play a specific playlist, in alphabetical order.
Some will let you have different folders, so that's a way to split up playlists, etc.
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My mother enjoys hymn music so I loaded it with various artists singing that style. I thought it might get repetitive though. That's why I added the artist name to each song so I could easily remove whatever she doesn't like.
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Oh, it's your MOM's ipod! I assumed you were having to delete music from YOUR iPod if your mom didn't like it!
Did I get that right?
