Problems syncing playlists onto ipod shuffle.

[Naraishere_13]

Ok so i am going to a summer camp tomorrow and the bus ride there is 5 hours. I thought it would be nice to have music to listen to. I have my ipod shuffle connected up to my computer, itunes running, and spotify. I did everything it told me and synced it to spotify. But i actually have 2 problems. One i can't figure out how to get the playlists onto the ipod and 2 i did somehow but it only shows the names of the playlists. When you click on them it doesn't have any of the songs in them. If that makes any sence. Please help! Thanks!

[jeremygoh]

@Naraishere_13

Can you use iTunes instead?

Here's why:

You can't "download" or "Available Offline" songs from Spotify for your iPod Nano, unless you're using an iPod Touch (iPod Touch has an App Store to download the Spotify App)
For iPod Nano, Shuffle, Classic, Mini - Spotify acts as a music manager and only supports songs which you already have in YOUR COMPUTER ONLY it does not work with songs on the Spotify Catalogue (which is as good as dragging and dropping songs from your computer to your MP3 player) only, similar to iTunes.
More details and discussion here:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-iOS-iPhone-iPad-iPod-Touch/Can-t-synch-to-iPod-3rd-generation/m...
More details on the Spotify help article here:
https://support.spotify.com/uk/learn-more/guides/?_ga=1.90431890.960391241.1404140606#!/article/How-...

And also, esp for iPod Nano - Lightning Connector connections will not be recognised as it is a bug, more details here:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Bugs/Desktop-Nano-6-7th-gen-iPod-isn-t-recognized/td-p/245854

Since using the Spotify app for your iPod Nano, Shuffle, Classic or Mini is the same as using iTunes. iTunes is much preferred.