Apple 101 Manuale Utente

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There aren't many buttons to push on the shuffle, and 
that's a good thing because it makes it hard for you to push 
the wrong one. Most people can figure out how to press the 
big button to start and stop the music, and perform other 
basic functions using the four other buttons to control 
volume and navigation.  There are a few interesting 
features hiding behind those buttons. Unlike other iPods, 
the shuffle has no hold switch to prevent tragic button-push 
accidents.  On the shuffle, you can lock the buttons by 
holding down play/pause button for a few seconds until the 
amber light blinks at you a few times. To unlock the 
buttons, hold down play/pause button again until you get 
the blinking green light.

Although iPod shuffle lacks the fancy song-scrubbing trick 
that lets you quickly skip through a track, it does have the 
same basic fast-forward and rewind feature as other iPods: 
just hold down next or previous to move around in the 
current song.  When you pause your iPod shuffle, then 
press next or previous, the iPod moves to the new song 
and starts playing.  That's different from other iPods: on 
those, the iPod stays paused when you press next or 
previous.  This is just another example of how Apple wisely 
simplified a feature to accommodate a screen-less design.