iPod & iTunes - The Missing Manual, 4th Edition (2006)

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 gen erations 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.

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iPod & iTunes - The Missing Manual, 4th Edition (2006)

What Is an iPod?

An iPod is many things to many people, but most people think of it as a pocket-size music player that holds 100 songs, 15,000 songs, or more, depending on the model. The iPod dynasty now ranges from a screenless 512-megabyte version that can hold plenty of songs for your gym routine and never skip a beat, to a 60-gigabyte multimedia jukebox that spins out an entire TV season of The Office, as well as color photos along with colorful music.

Like the original Sony Walkman, which revolutionized the personal listening experience when it was introduced in 1979, Apple's announcement of the original 5-gigabyte iPod in the fall of 2001 caught the music world's ear. "With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again," intoned Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. But even out of the Hyperbolic Chamber, the iPod was different enough to get attention. People noticed it, and more importantly, bought it. By the end of 2005, Apple had sold more than 41 million of them. The iPod was the single bestselling music player on the market, the dominant player; for the first time in modern history, Apple got to feel like Microsoft.

And no wonder. The iPod was smaller, lighter, and better looking than most of its rivalsand much, much easier to use. Five buttons and a scroll wheel could quickly take you from ABBA to ZZ Top, and every song in between.

Gleaming in a white-and-chrome case slightly larger than a deck of cards, the original iPod could hold at least 1,000 average-length pop songs (or six typical Grateful Dead live jams), and play them continuously for 10 hours on a fully charged battery. The black-and-white LCD screen offered the song information in type large enough to actually read, and a bright backlight allowed for changing playlists in the dark. And with its superfast FireWire connection, the iPod could slurp down an entire CD's worth of music from computer to player in under 15 seconds.

By the end of 2005, the iPod was zipping along on a USB 2.0 connection and showing digital photos, music videos, movies, and TV shows on its bright 2.5-inch color screen. The simple little music player grew up to be a multimedia warehouse that could still fit in a front shirt pocket.

Beyond the Music
But waitthere's more. Once you're done playing your tunes and watching your pictures, get ready for all the other ways the iPod can serve as your favorite gadget:

iPod as external drive. You can hook up an iPod to your Mac or Windows machine, where it shows up as an extra drive (albeit a much smaller drive if you plug in your lil' old iPod Shuffle). You can use it to copy, back up, or transfer gigantic files from place to placeat a lickety-split transfer speed, thanks to its FireWire or USB 2.0 connection.

iPod as eBook. The iPod makes a handy, pocket-size electronic book reader, capable of displaying and scrolling through recipes, driving directions, book chapters, and even Web pages.

iPod as PalmPilot. Amazingly, the iPod serves as a superb, easy-to-understand personal organizer. It can suck in the calendar, address book, to-do list, and notes from your Mac or PC and then display them at the touch of a button.

iPod as GameBoy. All right, not a GameBoy, exactly. But there are three video-style games and a memory-tugging audio quiz built into the modern iPod perfect time-killers for medical waiting rooms, long bus rides, and lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

iPod as slide projector. Granted, not every iPod can do pictures and music, but if you've got a full-size iPod with a color screen, all you need to do is whip out its AV cable and find a TV set to entertain your friends with a musical slide show of your latest trip to Disneyland.

You know how Macintosh computers inspire such emotional attachment from their fans? The iPod inspires similar devotion: iPod Web sites, iPod shareware add-ons, an iPod accessory industryin short, the invasion of the iPod People.

If you're reading this book, you're probably a Podling, tooor about to become one. Welcome to the club.

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iPod & iTunes

About This Book

We designed iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition, as a reference. You can easily find the information you need when you need it. We organized the information so that you can read from beginning to end to find out how to use iTunes and your iPod from scratch. But this book is also designed so that you can dive in anywhere and begin reading because you find all the info you need to know for each task.

We don’t cover every detail of every function of the software, and we inten¬tionally leave out some detail so that we don’t befuddle you with techno-speak when it’s not necessary. (Really, engineers can sometimes provide too many obscure choices that no one ever uses.) We write brief but comprehen¬sive descriptions and include lots of cool tips on how to get the best results from using iTunes and your iPod.

If your PC is on the trailing edge rather than the leading edge, don’t worry — you won’t miss out on the iPod revolution. True, if you don’t use Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your PC, you can’t use iTunes for Windows. However, if you use Windows Me (Millennium Edition), you can use MusicMatch Jukebox. Please note that if you’re using MusicMatch, you can find that content online

Conventions Used in This Book

Like any book that covers computers and information technology, this book uses certain conventions:

* Choosing from a menu: In iTunes, when you see “Choose iTunesO Preferences in iTunes,” you click iTunes on the toolbar and then click Preferences from the iTunes menu.
With the iPod, when you see “Choose ExtrasOCalendars from the iPod main menu,” you highlight Extras in the main menu with the scroll wheel, press the Select button to select Extras, and then highlight and select Calendars from the Extras menu.

* Clicking and dragging: When you see “Drag the song over the name of the playlist,” we mean click the song name, hold the mouse button down, and drag the song with the mouse over to the name of the playlist before lifting your finger off the mouse button.

A Quick Peek Ahead

This book is organized into six parts, with each part covering a different aspect of using your iPod. Here’s a quick preview of what you can find in each part.

Part I: Setting Up and Acquiring Music

This part gets you started with your iPod, powering it up, recharging its bat¬tery, using its menus, and connecting it to your computer. You install and set up the iPod and iTunes software on your Mac or Windows PC. We show you what you can do with iTunes. To acquire music, you can buy music from the iTunes Music Store, or you can rip audio CDs. You also find out how to share your iTunes music.

Part II: Managing Your Music

This part shows you how to sort the music in your iTunes library by artist, album, duration, date, and other items. You can add and edit iTunes song information. You discover how to arrange songs and albums into iTunes playlists that you can transfer to your iPod. When you have your music orga¬nized efficiently, transfer it to the iPod. And, for your peace of mind, we cover backing up your music and burning it to a CD, including printing CD jewel case inserts with the song information.

Part III: Playing Music

We show you how to locate and play songs on your iPod and then we move on to various accessories for connecting your iPod to your home stereo and using your iPod on the road with car stereos and portable speakers. You discover how to play music on your iPod through any computer by using advanced DJ techniques, such as cross-fading song playback and using the iTunes Party Shuffle. You also discover how to acquire and play videos in iTunes.

Part IV: Using Advanced Techniques

In this part, you discover digital music encoding and how to change your importing preferences. You can also fine-tune the sound playback with the iTunes equalizer and on your iPod with the iPod equalizer. We describe what you need to record sound and music into your computer from old records and tapes, and how to modify songs in iTunes for playback on your iPod. We cover how to enhance your iTunes library with alternate music sources and Web radio. We also describe how to acquire and play podcasts — radio broadcasts that you can automatically transfer to iTunes and your iPod.

Part V: Have iPod, Will Travel

In this part, use your iPod as a road warrior would: setting your alarm clock, sorting your contacts, recording voice memos, entering personal information into your computer (such as calendar appointments, To-Do lists, and contacts), and synchronizing your iPod with all your personal information. Use a digital camera link to temporarily store photos on the road on your iPod and reclaim the camera’s memory card space to take more photos. Use the color-display iPod to show photos and slideshows on televisions. We also provide trouble¬shooting first steps and details about updating and restoring your iPod.

Part VI: The Part of Tens

In this book’s Part of Tens chapters, we outline common problems and solu¬tions that happen to most iPods and provide tips about the iPod equalizer.
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