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[Shasta Mcnasty]

I've noticed a problem with the iPod Shuffle sync.  At least on the 1st gen Shuffles, iTunes only stores files in folders F00 thru F02 (iPod_Control/Music/F00, F01, F02 that is).  But MC makes folders F00 thru F19 and stores files in all of them.  The problem is that the iPod will only play the songs in folders F00-F02...so even if I have 200 songs on my 1 GB Shuffle, I only hear about 1/6 of them.  It's kind of a subtle, hard-to-notice problem unless, say, you're on a long flight and you realize the playlist is looping earlier than it should. 

I don't know about the file structure on the 2nd gen Shuffles, but please update MC to only use folders F00-F02 on 1st gen Shuffles.

Here's a blog post with more info:

http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2005/04/30/iPod_Shuffle_Lessons_Learned.aspx