Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / April 2007

I am running iTunes 7.1.1 and a Gen 1 512 Mb shuffle.  When the update
to 7.1 happened it also wanted to update the Shuffle which I did.
Ever since then the Shuffle won't play the list of podcasts I load (I
use manual updating) in the order I set.  That is I move podcasts to
the Shuffle and arrange them in a given order.  It shows that in the
iPod window of iTunes but when I eject the Shuffle and play it they
are not in that order.  Also if I connect it back to iTunes it shows
this new order NOT the order I had originally arranged.

I have reformatted the Shuffle again, taken it back to factory
defaults and cycled the battery.  This has had no effect.  I trashed
the iTunes preferences and that also had no effect.  Finally I synched
the Shuffle to another machine running the same version of iTunes and
that did work correctly.  The podcast order was preserved when I
loaded the Shuffle from that machine.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this problem ?  The problem machine
is a Dual 533Mhz G4 with 768 Mb memory.  The machine that works OK is
a 1GHz 12" G4 laptop.

--jim