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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2848189" data-attributes="member: 15651">Plug the iPod Shuffle into your USB port.  It should appear as an icon in that left hand menu.  From there just drag and drop what you want onto the shuffle.  You can create playlists and drag those as well as whole albums or indvidual songs.  With an iPod (non-Shuffle), you can select exactly what to play at any time; song, album, artist or playlist from the iPod screen.  Since it is a Shuffle, once the song are on there, pretty much all you can do is hit play and let it go (I think you can select random mode or play start to finish).  Playlists are so you can set up a specific list of songs.  More useful on a regular iPod since you can have several playlists which you can select (I have several based upon my mood).  With the Shuffle, since you cannot select the playlist, I believe some people use them to quickly create sets of music they might want to frequently swap out.  Want only high energy music - grab that playlist.  Now in the mood for something mellow, remove the high energy playlist and add your mellow one.</blockquote>