Apple launched the digital audio player with many expectations. Its entry was mainly after getting an excellent name in the electronic market. Apple Inc. took no time in having a large part of market share. The digital audio player became an instant hot selling device in the market, thanks to it’s really mind blowing features. The digital audio player iPod Shuffle was designed and marketed by Apple Inc that marked the beginning of a revolution in the field of musical entertainment. This media player is the budget model coming from the lineage of Apple, which got a big success in the mobile phone market. If looking for the specialties, this model is the first one from iPod to use flash memory. Prior to this model, all the models were storing data on a hard disk.

The Apple iPod Shuffle media player is the second generation model that weighs just 15 grams. The Shuffle model was introduced on January 11, 2005 with an eye catching design that could comfortably store songs and play them in random order. The availability of an “autofill” feature in iTunes makes it easy to select songs at random from a user’s music library. These songs could then be copied and fitted into the memory of the Shuffle. What makes the model important is its capacity to store up to 240 songs. Another attractive feature of the Shuffle is its bass response that is better than 4th generation iPods. Remember, the first generation Shuffle weighed 0.78 ounces.

The latest music player Shuffle carries various features offered by iTunes. The capability of this gadget to reduce the bit rate of songs to 128 kbit/s is just one among the many attractive features of the player. Let us now have a look at the physical appearance of the music player. We could see that the front of the iPod Shuffle comes with buttons for Play/Pause, Next Song/ Fast Forward, Previous Song/Fast Reverse and up and down volume adjustments. The model is also used as a USB flash drive. The user will find no difficulty in storing all required information and music in this music player.