Ipod & Itunes: The Missing Manual

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Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-03-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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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 ix
Introduction 1(12)
Part One: iPod: The Hardware
Meet the iPod
13(24)
Parts of the Pod
13(4)
Charging the Battery
17(4)
Earphones: Apple's or Otherwise
21(1)
The iPod Menus
22(15)
The iPod Sync Connection
37(22)
The iPod Software CD
37(2)
Using USB 2.0
39(2)
Connecting Your iPod by FireWire
41(1)
Your Very First Sync
42(2)
Varying the Auto-Transfer Theme
44(5)
iPod-to-Computer Copying
49(10)
The iPod Shuffle
59(18)
Meet the iPod Shuffle
59(5)
Using the iPod Shuffle
64(7)
Deleting Songs from the iPod Shuffle
71(1)
Using the Shuffle as a USB Flash Drive
71(6)
Part Two: iPod: The Software
Digital Audio Formats
77(10)
Introduction to Digital Audio
77(2)
Compressed Audio Formats
79(2)
Other Podworthy File Formats
81(3)
Bit Rates
84(3)
iTunes for Macintosh and Windows
87(48)
Introduction to iTunes
87(2)
A Quick Tour
89(4)
Ripping CDs into iTunes
93(8)
Getting Other Files into iTunes
101(5)
Deleting Songs and Videos
106(1)
Playing Music
107(6)
Playing Videos
113(1)
iTunes Administration
113(8)
Internet Radio
121(1)
Playlists
122(4)
Burning a CD or DVD
126(2)
Printing Playlists and CD Covers
128(1)
Playing Songs Across a Network
129(6)
iPod Multimedia
135(28)
Watching Video
135(6)
Displaying Photos
141(12)
Listening to Audio Books
153(5)
Podcasting
158(5)
The iTunes Music Store
163(30)
Welcome to the Music Store
163(2)
A Store Tour
165(3)
Searching and Shopping
168(13)
What to Do with Purchased Content
181(6)
Music Store Billing
187(6)
Part Three: Beyond the Music
iPod Games and Other Extras
193(10)
Games
193(3)
Clock
196(1)
Stopwatch
197(3)
Screen Lock
200(1)
Notes
201(2)
The iPod as External Drive
203(6)
The iPod's Hard Disk Format
203(1)
The iPod as an External Hard Disk
204(2)
Storing Data Files on the iPod
206(1)
Deleting Data Files
207(1)
Unmounting the iPod Drive
207(2)
Connecting the iPod
209(16)
Connecting the iPod to a Stereo System
209(4)
Using iTunes with AirPort Express
213(1)
Connecting the iPod to a Car Stereo
213(12)
Part Four: Extreme iPodding
Hot Hacks and Cool Tools
225(16)
The AppleScripted iPod
225(3)
More Mac Shareware
228(2)
Software for Mac and Windows
230(1)
More Windows Shareware
231(1)
Recording Your Own Podcasts
232(9)
Troubleshooting
241(58)
Apple's Alphabet: The 5 R's of iPod Repair
241(1)
The iPod's Self-Help Modes
242(2)
iPod Hardware Problems
244(6)
Troubleshooting the iPod Shuffle
250(2)
Headphone and Remote Problems
252(1)
Problems with Song Quality
253(1)
iTunes Blues
254(10)
Problems with the iTunes Music Store
264(5)
Software Updates for iTunes
269(1)
iPod Software Updates
269(6)
Where to Get Help Online
275(4)
Part Five: Appendixes
Appendix A: iTunes, Menu by Menu
279(20)
Appendix B: iPod As Organizer
Appendix C: iStuff: Gadgets for Your iPod
Appendix D: iPod as eBook Reader and Newsstand
Index 299

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