Chapter 4 Listening to Music 18
During playback, the status light blinks:
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Green once in response to most of your actions (playing, rewinding, fast-forwarding, using
VoiceOver, changing the volume, and so on).
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Green steadily for 30 seconds when you pause iPod shue.
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Orange three times when you reach the upper or lower volume limit.
The battery status lights are described in Checking the battery status on page 8.
Setting iPod shue to shue or play songs in order
You can set iPod shue to shue songs or play them in the order in which they’re organized in
iTunes. When you turn on shue, books, podcasts, and Genius Mixes aren’t shued; they play in
their iTunes order.
Set iPod shue to shue songs:
m Slide the three-way switch to shue (¡).
To reshue songs, slide the three-way switch from shue (¡) to play in order (⁄) and back to
shue again.
Set iPod shue to play songs in order:
m Slide the three-way switch to play in order (⁄).
After the last song plays, iPod shue starts playing the rst song again.
Using VoiceOver
iPod shue can help provide more control over your playback options by speaking track titles
and artist names, and announcing playlists for you to choose from. VoiceOver also tells you
battery status and speaks other messages.
To hear these announcements, enable VoiceOver in iTunes. You can enable VoiceOver when you
rst set up iPod shue, or do it later. VoiceOver is available in selected languages.
You set VoiceOver options on the Summary tab in iTunes. The following tasks describe how to
turn on and customize VoiceOver.
Enable VoiceOver when you set up iPod shue:
1 Connect iPod shue to your computer.
2 Follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes. The Enable VoiceOver option is selected by default.
3 Click Continue.
4 In the Summary pane, under Voice Feedback, choose the language you want from the Language
pop-up menu.
This sets the language for your spoken system messages and playlist names, as well as many of
the song titles and artist names.
Note: To pick a dierent language for specic tracks, select them in iTunes, choose File > Get Info,
choose a VoiceOver language from the pop-up menu in the Options pane, then click OK.
5 Click Apply.
When setup is complete, VoiceOver is enabled on iPod shue.