I don't feel particularly lazy, or that I'm over-thinking my situation - but I've been bouncing around forums and manuals for about an hour trying to figure this out-
Had been using an old iPod plugged in via USB for music. I leave it on random/shuffle all the time and I can be surprised by any of 10,000+ songs that might pop up - worked perfectly.
iPod was stolen (wife left the car unlocked in front of our house) and I don't feel like shelling out for another one and figured I'd just buy a USB stick, copy over my iTunes folder(s) and everything would continue as before.
Of course it didn't - seem like all I can do is select a folder manually and play the songs (in order) that are there - one album at a time. (Oh, the horrors!) Random/shuffle doesn't seem to do anything.
Here's my question(s) - Should I be able to do what I'm trying to do? (Basically, replace an iPod with a USB flash drive and shuffle all the songs on the drive from inside their (roughly) 1000 different folders)
Had been using an old iPod plugged in via USB for music. I leave it on random/shuffle all the time and I can be surprised by any of 10,000+ songs that might pop up - worked perfectly.
iPod was stolen (wife left the car unlocked in front of our house) and I don't feel like shelling out for another one and figured I'd just buy a USB stick, copy over my iTunes folder(s) and everything would continue as before.
Of course it didn't - seem like all I can do is select a folder manually and play the songs (in order) that are there - one album at a time. (Oh, the horrors!) Random/shuffle doesn't seem to do anything.
Here's my question(s) - Should I be able to do what I'm trying to do? (Basically, replace an iPod with a USB flash drive and shuffle all the songs on the drive from inside their (roughly) 1000 different folders)