shuffle as flash drive?

Yes, you can use iTunes to control the amount of space you want devoted to music and the amount you want to use as a flash drive.
 
Arden said:
Yes, you can use iTunes to control the amount of space you want devoted to music and the amount you want to use as a flash drive.
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Ah, ok I see.

Kap

P.S. The iPod flash is a flash drive, that just happens to play music.
 
Arden said:
Yes, you can use iTunes to control the amount of space you want devoted to music and the amount you want to use as a flash drive.
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Can you do the same on a 4th Gen iPod 20 GB?
 
Don't need to with the iPod. Any space that is free can be used for storage. The iPod mounts more like an external harddrive.
 
diablojota said:
Don't need to with the iPod. Any space that is free can be used for storage. The iPod mounts more like an external harddrive.
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Note, it only will mount as an external harddrive if you have it set to manual instead of automatically syncing with iTunes.
 
Just out of curiosity, what defines a "flash drive" ? Is it simply the fact that it is small, solid-state & USB powered?

Or does it have to use 'flash memory' (another term I'm fuzzy on)?
 
JPigford said:
Note, it only will mount as an external harddrive if you have it set to manual instead of automatically syncing with iTunes.
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That's not right -- it will mount as a hard drive regardless of the settings you have in iTunes -- the only requirement is that you don't have iTunes set to auto-launch when you plug the iPod in (or iSync as well).

Then, you can plug the iPod into the computer without iTunes running, and it will always mount as a hard drive.

The "Enable disk use" setting in iTunes simply mounts the iPod as a hard drive on your desktop even when it's being updated through iTunes. If this setting is turned off, you can quit iTunes, re-attach the iPod, and it will mount as a hard drive.

brianleahy: a flash drive/player is one that is dependent upon flash media for storage -- solid state: yes, flash memory: yes, USB-powered: not required. It could be FireWire or any other number of interfaces. The only requirement for something to be considered a "flash" drive/player is if it uses solid-state flash memory (which is kind of redundant, since all flash memory is solid state).
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
That's not right -- it will mount as a hard drive regardless of the settings you have in iTunes -- the only requirement is that you don't have iTunes set to auto-launch when you plug the iPod in (or iSync as well).
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Thank you. I was just about to say the same thing ;)
 
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