Summary
When Apple introduced the iPod in 2001, CEO Steve Jobs declared, "listening to music will never be the same again." He was right on the money. The iPod grabbed attention right away, and by the end of 2005, more than 41 million of them had sold. iPod is the dominant digital music player on the market, and for the first time, Apple gets to feel like Microsoft. iPod steadily evolved through five generations since then, and today the dynasty ranges from a screenless 512-megabyte version that can hold plenty of songs for your gym routine to a 60-gigabyte multimedia jukebox that can spin out an entire season of "Desperate Housewives", along with thousands of color photos and all that colorful music. An iPod is many things to many people, but it can be much more than most people realize. That's where iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual comes in. Like the device itself, this book is a long-running bestseller, now in its fourth edition. What makes it so popular is the wealth of useful information it brings to anyone who breaks open iPod's distinctive packaging-especially since Apple doesn't supply a manual of its own. Once again, we've updated this guide to fully explain the ins and outs of iPod, including the nano, the shuffle, and all the latest features and uses, such as: The 5th generation Video iPod, which can hold 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos, and 150 hours of video iTunes 6, where you can buy tunes, subscribe to Podcasts, tune into internet radio, download videos, build playlists, and more Going beyond the music to use iPod as an external drive, an eBook, a personal organizer, a GameBoy, and a slide projector Extreme iPodding with shareware and AppleScripts, using an iPod with external speakers (including the car stereo), accessories, and troubleshooting It's been five years since iPod hit the scene, but, clearly, the evolution has only just begun. iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual gives you everything you need to evolve with it.
Author Biography
Jude Biersdorfer has been writing the weekly Q&A column for the Circuits section of The New York Times since 1998, and she occasionally writes feature stories and how-to articles for the same section. She has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review and the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, among other publications, and has contributed essays on the collision of pop culture and technology for the books The Education of the E-Designer (2001) and Sex Appeal (2000), both published by Allworth Press. She is the author of iPod Shuffle Fan Book and iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, 3rd edition.
Table of Contents
The Missing Credits |
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Introduction |
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Part One: iPod: The Hardware |
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13 | (24) |
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13 | (4) |
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17 | (4) |
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Earphones: Apple's or Otherwise |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (15) |
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37 | (22) |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (2) |
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Connecting Your iPod by FireWire |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (2) |
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Varying the Auto-Transfer Theme |
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44 | (5) |
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49 | (10) |
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59 | (18) |
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59 | (5) |
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64 | (7) |
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Deleting Songs from the iPod Shuffle |
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71 | (1) |
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Using the Shuffle as a USB Flash Drive |
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71 | (6) |
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Part Two: iPod: The Software |
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Introduction to Digital Audio |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (2) |
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Other Podworthy File Formats |
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81 | (3) |
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84 | (3) |
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iTunes for Macintosh and Windows |
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87 | (48) |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (4) |
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93 | (8) |
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Getting Other Files into iTunes |
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101 | (5) |
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Deleting Songs and Videos |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (6) |
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113 | (1) |
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113 | (8) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (4) |
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126 | (2) |
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Printing Playlists and CD Covers |
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128 | (1) |
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Playing Songs Across a Network |
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129 | (6) |
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135 | (28) |
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135 | (6) |
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141 | (12) |
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153 | (5) |
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158 | (5) |
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163 | (30) |
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Welcome to the Music Store |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (13) |
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What to Do with Purchased Content |
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181 | (6) |
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187 | (6) |
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Part Three: Beyond the Music |
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iPod Games and Other Extras |
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193 | (10) |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (3) |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (2) |
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The iPod as External Drive |
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203 | (6) |
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The iPod's Hard Disk Format |
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203 | (1) |
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The iPod as an External Hard Disk |
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204 | (2) |
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Storing Data Files on the iPod |
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206 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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Unmounting the iPod Drive |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | (16) |
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Connecting the iPod to a Stereo System |
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209 | (4) |
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Using iTunes with AirPort Express |
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213 | (1) |
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Connecting the iPod to a Car Stereo |
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213 | (12) |
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Part Four: Extreme iPodding |
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225 | (16) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (2) |
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Software for Mac and Windows |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (1) |
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Recording Your Own Podcasts |
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232 | (9) |
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241 | (58) |
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Apple's Alphabet: The 5 R's of iPod Repair |
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241 | (1) |
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The iPod's Self-Help Modes |
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242 | (2) |
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244 | (6) |
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Troubleshooting the iPod Shuffle |
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250 | (2) |
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Headphone and Remote Problems |
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252 | (1) |
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Problems with Song Quality |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (10) |
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Problems with the iTunes Music Store |
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264 | (5) |
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Software Updates for iTunes |
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269 | (1) |
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269 | (6) |
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275 | (4) |
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Appendix A: iTunes, Menu by Menu |
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Appendix B: iPod As Organizer |
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Appendix C: iStuff: Gadgets for Your iPod |
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Appendix D: iPod as eBook Reader and Newsstand |
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Index |
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