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The Shuffle Buttons
There aren't many buttons to push on the shuffle, and
that's a good thing because it makes it hard for you to push
the wrong one. Most people can figure out how to press the
big button to start and stop the music, and perform other
basic functions using the four other buttons to control
volume and navigation. There are a few interesting
features hiding behind those buttons. Unlike other iPods,
the shuffle has no
hold switch to prevent tragic button-push
accidents. On the shuffle, you can lock the buttons by
holding down
play/pause button for a few seconds until the
amber light blinks at you a few times. To unlock the
buttons, hold down
play/pause button again until you get
the blinking green light.
Although iPod shuffle lacks the fancy song-scrubbing trick
that lets you quickly skip through a track, it does have the
same basic fast-forward and rewind feature as other iPods:
just hold down
next or previous to move around in the
current song. When you
pause your iPod shuffle, then
press
next or previous, the iPod moves to the new song
and starts playing. That's different from other iPods: on
those, the iPod stays paused when you press
next or
previous. This is just another example of how Apple wisely
simplified a feature to accommodate a screen-less design.