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Any iPod that gets used with any regularity occasionally freaks out. It's a fact of life. That's just fine when you're dealing with a traditional, menu-based iPod that can tell you exactly where it hurts and where the bad man touched it, but a real problem with the silent iPod shuffle, which is unable to communicate save by a rapid polyphony of flashing LEDs.
There has been salvation available to 1G Shuffle owners in the past in the form of the iPod Reset Utility, but we of the second generation have had to rely on luck and hope heretofore. Apple has heard our prayers, however, and their reset utility now works on 2Gs. I've had some serious issues with my shuffle in the past, including a week where it wouldn't even show up in Mac OS X and claim it was broken, so this is nice. Next time. I'll be prepared. Anyone had to run it already?
2G shuffle now supported by iPod Reset Utility [Ars Technica]
