I have an iPod shuffle and I want to DL music to it w/o using iTunes.

I have tried to DL iTunes onto my laptop and it just screws everything up - I have win 7/64 bit with 4.0 mg of memory.

iTunes slows everything down it freezes when it gets to one of the last steps of loading the program.

I have seen ways of being able to DL music w/o using iTunes and just find it to be too hard to figure out - I can install printers and run diagnostics on my machine - I am not that dumb, but I cannot get my head wrapped around the way to convert my music to put it on the Shuffle.

Does anyone know how to do this in a quick, not-to-technical way?

Thanks.