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ipod shuffle memory?

I have a shuffle, which I love, but it only holds 200 something songs. when I got it I thought that would be enough, but it fills up quickly.

I have different playlists on itunes for music for working out, for long cartrips, for doing homework, etc. lately what I've been doing is just deleting the songs on my ipod and then putting on whatever specific playlist I want. later, when i want a different playlist, I just delete the old playlist and put a new one on.

is this bad? I've only done it a few times so I don't think I've done any damage yet, but I don't want to continue if it's going to screw up the memory or something.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Viridian is right.

  • It is built for this sort of abuse. You could theoretically ruin the thing eventually, but not in this lifetime.It'll most likely break from some other problem first.

    This old blog post discusses the problems of flash memory (beware, it's a couple years old, and you know how technology goes).

    http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/...

    And if your shuffle **does** break, you can always go here for a new one, free.

    http://freeipodshuffle.freebielink.info/

  • 1 decade ago

    Not bad at all. Deleting and adding songs is what the shuffle is made for. Shuffles have flash-based memory like a usb jump drive. Its meant for plug and play, and erasing songs. So that will not harm it at all.

  • 1 decade ago

    You don't have to manually delete them. If you just change what playlist you're syncing the sync process will remove the old and replace it with the new.

    However your method isn't a problem.

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  • 1 decade ago

    This is no problem to your iPod. You are suppost to be able to change songs whenever you would like. If you would like to store all your songs at once though, you should buy another iPod or MP3 player to suit your needs.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    nothing bad should happen as long as u dont do it like 500 times a day r sumthing!!

    Source(s): get a 2GB nano
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