Martin Fielder did most of the hard work when it comes to using the iPod Shuffle without iTunes. All you have to do is copy the music over to your Shuffle like a normal mass storage device.

When Apple releases the iPod, they add the iPod support to iTunes so that you use iTunes to transfer all your music to the iPod, and that's how you manage your iPod library. In early 2003 ...

The iPod wasn't the only portable MP3 player of its time, it wasn't the cheapest and it wasn't always the biggest capacity. What it did was provide a simple way to organize your music (in iTunes ...