(T) Ipod Shuffle Mk2 + Blue & Me

Has anyone got a Mk2 Shuffle working on Blue&Me?

As far as I know my friend has Mp3's on his shufftle and it didnt work...

The Shuffle was showing as charging but Blue&Me didnt acknowledge it...

Any ideas? No use now as we wanted to play it whilst doing some mega 6hour journeys but thought maybe useful for future ref...

no idea if an update would fix it.
in my opinion the easiest thing to do is stick in a 2gb flash drive for a few quid and use that.

there are loads of command you can speak to do with ipods ect when you press the windows button (for example "shuffle on" turns on the random play...)

I forget the commands to get the mps's up on the car dash display, but Its done with voice commands... there is folded instruction paper that came with all my manuals thats gives all the voice commands... I was bored one day and going through them, and got the displays up on the car dash....

just have a read, I'm sure you'll sort it out!

Blue & Me doesn't like iPods- it's to do with the whole Apple Mac vs. Microsoft rivalry.

Another reason is MP3s from iTunes tend to be copy protected and therefore the Blue & Me can't copy them to its on-board memory and play them.

If you really want to play an iPod through your radio, Fiat sell an iPod adaptor interface which plugs into the back of the radio and has a lead coming out so you can plug your Shuffle in.

you could just buy a USB memory stick, and transfere the mp3's to the memory stick and plug that in the car's USB ports....

Ah, but if they're iTunes or copy-protected MP3s they can't be played through Blue & Me, whatever form of storage.

I was on holiday driving my Grande Punto and my friend wanted to use his ipod shuffle Mk2..
He doesnt have a net connection so his music was cd rips to mp3 using Windows Media Player and then using iTunes to collate them to the iPod.

Ipods on the whole do work with Blue N Me

"He doesnt have a net connection so his music was cd rips to mp3 using Windows Media Player and then using iTunes to collate them to the iPod."

So he didn't buy the music from iTunes? Normal ripped MP3s should work ok, whatever they're stored on, though many people on here complain that their iPod's don't work with Blue & Me. Maybe it's just where they got their music from and it's format that matters most?

I don't own an iPod myself, so I've not tried any of this out, but thought that music you buy from iTunes is copy protected to only play from the iPod it was downloaded to?