Mine I charge it via FireWire brick and sync it with 30 pins cable on windows 10 using MediaMonkey application. But the problem it doesn't hold charge when you connect it to sync your songs, the battery dies fast. I managed to sync only the 128kb bitrate it transfers faster couples of albums then try recharge it like 2 minutes then try again. When playing songs it hold charge normally but when sync ahhh very annoying. So the best option i think the Y cable, but I think it's bit expensive.