charging via usb hub, possible?

Powered hubs can be tricky as relates to providing battery charges to iPods..... most times they work fine, sometimes even though it is a "powered hub", a USB port on the hub doesn't actually get the power when the PC is shut-down. The only way to tell for sure is to try your specific powered-hub and see if it charges the shuffle when the PC is off.

I charge my shuffle every night via a powered usb hub but this hub is not connected to my pc. It's the small mini hub that I use with my laptop. It works great. I won't be spending my money on an apple charger - not worth it since I already had this mini-hub.

From what I understand from the included instruction card, the blinking orange light shows that the iPod is mounted or transferring data, which I think means it's just holding the charge steady, or maybe powering + charging slowly like a laptop battery, I'm not too sure.

So you would need to do is eject the iPod in iTunes, which stops iTunes from being able to update the iPod. When I do this, the light (instead of blinking) stays on orange which means it's charging, and turns green when it's done.

And I can confirm the charging thru the hub, just found out that mine charges even when my laptop is off or asleep. I think it just needs a hub with an external power supply, mine's a Belkin 7-port hub.