ipod & itunes for dummies 3rd

by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes iPod ® & iTunes ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 3RD EDITION 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page i iPod ® & iTunes ® For Dummies ® , 3rd Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005927619 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-74739-0 ISBN-10: 0-471-74739-4 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3O/SR/QZ/QV/IN 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page ii About the Authors Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes have kicked around the computer industry for decades, editing the influential Inside Report on New Media newsletter and writing for weekly and monthly magazines, including Computer Currents, NeXTWORLD, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Technology Section, and NewMedia. They also co-founded and edited Desktop Publishing/Publish magazine. Tony and Cheryl have written over a dozen books on computing, desktop publishing, and multimedia, including iLife All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam), and a series of books about Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator, and PageMaker. Tony has also worked as a director of enterprise marketing for a large software company, and as a communications director and technical publications man- ager. Cheryl recently founded and served as director of a charter school and has worked as a professional courseware designer and an instructor in com- puter courses at elementary and high schools. Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the Sixties counterculture, Tony and Cheryl produced a CD-ROM interactive documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and the Jefferson Airplane). They also developed the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and radio programs focused on rock music history. As a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers (www.flyingotherbros.com), Tony has performed with Hall-of- Fame rock musicians and uses his iPod to store extensive concert recordings. 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page iii Dedication This book is dedicated to John Paul Bove and James Eric Bove, both of whom contributed tips and spent considerable time testing iPods while turning a vacation into a book project. They have earned their own iPods. Authors’ Acknowledgments John Paul Bove contributed technical expertise and writing for this edition, and dedicated his Windows PC for testing versions of iTunes and iPods. He certainly earned his new laptop. We want to thank Rich Tennant for his wonderful cartoons. We also want to thank our Wiley project editor Tonya Maddox Cupp, and Editorial Manager Carol Sheehan, for ongoing assistance that made our job so much easier. A book this timely places a considerable burden on a publisher’s production team, and we thank the pro- duction crew at Wiley for diligence beyond the call of reason. We owe thanks and a happy hour or three to Carole McLendon at Waterside, our agent. And we have acquisitions editor Bob Woerner at Wiley to thank for coming up with the idea for this book and help- ing us to become professional dummies — that is, dummy authors. Finally, our heartfelt thanks to members of the Flying Other Brothers (Pete Sears, Barry Sless, Jimmy Sanchez, Bill Bennett, Bert Keely, TBone, and Roger and Ann McNamee) for the music that inspired us while writing this book. 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page v Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register. Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development Project Editor: Tonya Maddox Cupp Previous edition: Mark Enochs Acquisitions Editor: Bob Woerner Technical Editor: Dennis Cohen Editorial Manager: Kevin Kirschner Media Development Manager: Laura VanWinkle Media Development Supervisor: Richard Graves Editorial Assistant: Amanda M. Foxworth Cartoons: Rich Tennant (www.the5thwave.com) Production Project Coordinator: Shannon Schiller Layout and Graphics: Carl Byers, Andrea Dahl, Denny Hager, Joyce Haughey, Clint Lahnen, Barbara Moore, Barry Offringa, Melanee Prendergast, Ron Terry Proofreaders: Joe Niesen, Carl William Pierce, TECHBOOKS Production Services Indexer: TECHBOOKS Production Services Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies Richard Swadley, Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher Mary Bednarek, Executive Acquisitions Director Mary C. Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Joyce Pepple, Acquisitions Director Composition Services Gerry Fahey, Vice President of Production Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page vi Contents at a Glance Introduction 1 Part I: Setting Up and Acquiring Music 7 Chapter 1: Firing Up Your iPod 9 Chapter 2: Setting Up iTunes and Your iPod 35 Chapter 3: Getting Started with iTunes 53 Chapter 4: Shopping at the iTunes Music Store 61 Chapter 5: Importing Music into iTunes 79 Chapter 6: Sharing Music sans a Lawyer 89 Part II: Managing Your Music 99 Chapter 7: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting in iTunes 101 Chapter 8: Adding and Editing Song Information in iTunes 109 Chapter 9: Organizing Music with Playlists 121 Chapter 10: Updating Your iPod with iTunes 131 Chapter 11: Gimme Shelter for My Music 153 Chapter 12: Feeling the iTunes Burn 161 Part III: Playing Music 175 Chapter 13: Playing Your iPod 177 Chapter 14: Getting Wired for Sound 189 Chapter 15: Listening While on the Move 199 Chapter 16: Spinning Tunes Like a DJ 209 Part IV: Using Advanced Techniques 227 Chapter 17: Decoding Encoding 229 Chapter 18: Changing Encoders and Encoder Settings 237 Chapter 19: Fine-Tuning the Sound 247 Chapter 20: Recording and Editing Sound 259 Chapter 21: Enhancing Your Music Library 267 Part V: Have iPod, Will Travel 287 Chapter 22: Sleeping with Your iPod 289 Chapter 23: Using the iPod as a Hard Drive 301 Chapter 24: Transferring and Viewing Photos 315 02_747394 ftoc.qxd 8/26/05 11:16 PM Page vii Chapter 25: Getting Personal 335 Chapter 26: Synchronizing Information with Your iPod 347 Chapter 27: Updating and Troubleshooting 357 Part VI: The Part of Tens 367 Chapter 28: Ten iPod Solutions 369 Chapter 29: Eleven Tips for the Equalizer 375 Index 379 Bonus Chapter 1: Making Your MusicMatch On the Web Bonus Chapter 2: Putting a Dime in the MusicMatch Jukebox On the Web Bonus Chapter 3: Managing the MusicMatch Jukebox Library On the Web Bonus Chapter 4: Twelve Web Sources for More iPod Information On the Web 02_747394 ftoc.qxd 8/26/05 11:16 PM Page viii Table of Contents Introduction 1 About This Book 2 Conventions Used in This Book 2 And Just Who Are You? 3 A Quick Peek Ahead 4 Part I: Setting Up and Acquiring Music 4 Part II: Managing Your Music 4 Part III: Playing Music 4 Part IV: Using Advanced Techniques 5 Part V: Have iPod, Will Travel 5 Part VI: The Part of Tens 5 Icons Used in This Book 5 Part I: Setting Up and Acquiring Music 7 Chapter 1: Firing Up Your iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Introducing the iPod 10 Comparing iPod Models 11 First-generation iPods 12 Second-generation iPods 12 Third-generation iPods 13 iPod mini 14 Fourth-generation and color-display iPods 15 Doing the iPod shuffle 17 Thinking Inside the Box 18 Things you have and things you need 19 Using FireWire or USB cables with a Mac 20 Using FireWire or USB cables with a PC 21 Powering Up Your iPod 22 Facing Charges of Battery 24 Maintaining battery life 25 Saving power 26 Replacing your battery 27 Thumbing Through the Menus 28 Pressing the iPod Buttons 29 Setting the Language 31 Resetting Your iPod 32 02_747394 ftoc.qxd 8/26/05 11:16 PM Page ix Chapter 2: Setting Up iTunes and Your iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Setting Up iTunes 36 Setting up iTunes on a Mac 37 Setting up iTunes for Windows 40 Setting Up Your iPod with a Mac 44 Setting Up Your iPod with a Windows PC 47 Installing the iPod Software 48 Using iTunes Setup Assistant 51 Chapter 3: Getting Started with iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 What You Can Do with iTunes 54 Opening the iTunes Window 54 Playing CD Tracks in iTunes 57 Rearranging and repeating tracks 58 Skipping tracks 58 Repeating a song list 59 Displaying visuals 59 Chapter 4: Shopping at the iTunes Music Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Visiting the iTunes Music Store 62 Setting up an account 64 Browsing for artists, songs, and albums 66 Browsing the charts 67 Power-searching 68 Playing music videos and movie trailers 68 Browsing celebrity and published playlists 69 Previewing a song 70 Buying and Downloading Songs 70 Using 1-Click 71 Using the Shopping Cart 71 Changing your Store preferences 72 Resuming interrupted downloads 73 Redeeming gift certificates and prepaid cards 73 Managing Your Account 74 Viewing and changing account information 74 Viewing your purchase history 75 Setting up allowances 75 Sending gift certificates 76 Authorizing computers to play purchased music 76 Chapter 5: Importing Music into iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Setting the Importing Preferences 80 Ripping Music from CDs 82 iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition x 02_747394 ftoc.qxd 8/26/05 11:16 PM Page x Importing Music Files 84 Importing Audio Books 86 Chapter 6: Sharing Music sans a Lawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Sharing the iTunes Music Store Wealth 89 Sharing Music in a Network 91 Copying Songs to Other Computers 94 Copying Songs between PCs and Macs 95 Part II: Managing Your Music 99 Chapter 7: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting in iTunes . . . . . . . . . .101 Browsing by Artist and Album 102 Understanding the Song Indicators 103 Changing Viewing Options 104 Sorting Songs by Viewing Options 105 Searching for Songs 106 Showing the Current Song and Song File 107 Showing Duplicate Songs 108 Chapter 8: Adding and Editing Song Information in iTunes . . . . . . .109 Retrieving Information from the Internet 109 Retrieving information automatically 110 Retrieving information manually 110 Entering Song Information 111 Editing the Information 112 Editing multiple songs at once 112 Editing fields for a song 114 Adding a rating 116 Adding Album Cover Art or Images 117 Chapter 9: Organizing Music with Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Creating Playlists 122 Playlists of songs 122 Playlists of albums 123 Using Smart Playlists 124 Creating a smart playlist 125 Editing a smart playlist 126 Deleting Songs, Albums, Artists, and Playlists 127 Creating an iMix 128 xi Table of Contents 02_747394 ftoc.qxd 8/26/05 11:16 PM Page xi [...]... integration is available for BMW cars — you can control an iPod or iPod mini through the BMW audio system and multifunction steering wheel Whether you want to be On the Road with Jack Kerouac (in audio book form), or “Drivin’ South” with Jimi Hendrix, just fill up your iPod and go! 2 iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition About This Book We designed iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition, as a reference... its icon For more information on these topics, see that excellent book by Mark L Chambers, Mac OS X All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, or the massive tome Windows XP GigaBook For Dummies, by Peter Weverka and company (both from Wiley) 3 4 iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition A Quick Peek Ahead This book is organized into six parts, with each part covering a different aspect of using your iPod Here’s... Spinning iTunes like a DJ 212 Queuing up tunes with Party Shuffle 213 Cross-fading song playback .215 Playing Videos in iTunes 216 Acquiring videos 216 Playing videos 218 Playing an iPod through iTunes 220 Connecting your iPod to another computer 221 Using AirTunes for wireless stereo playback 222 xiii xiv iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition...xii iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition Chapter 10: Updating Your iPod with iTunes 131 Changing Your Update Preferences 132 Updating Your iPod Automatically 134 Synchronizing with your library 135 Updating from a library larger than your iPod 136 Updating by playlist 137 Updating selected songs 138 Updating Your iPod Manually ... available for you at www .dummies. com/go /ipod Conventions Used in This Book Like any book that covers computers and information technology, this book uses certain conventions: ߜ Choosing from a menu: In iTunes, when you see “Choose iTunes Preferences in iTunes, ” you click iTunes on the toolbar and then click Preferences from the iTunes menu With the iPod, when you see “Choose Extras➪Calendars from the iPod. .. for More iPod Information On the Web The Apple iPod Web Site The Audible Web Site The iTunes Music Store The iPod Support Web Site The iPod Troubleshooting Guide The Podcast.net Directory The MusicMatch Jukebox Site Version Tracker iPodHacks iPoding iPod Lounge Apple Developer Connection Introduction Y ou don’t need much imagination to see why we’re so happy with our iPods... xv xvi iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition Transferring Pictures to a Color-display iPod 323 Transferring photos from a photo library 323 Transferring image files from a hard drive folder 326 Transferring full-resolution photos and images 328 Transferring photos with the iPod Camera Connector 328 Viewing Photos with Your Color-display iPod 329 Viewing photos on your iPod color... solutions that happen to most iPods and provide tips about the iPod equalizer Icons Used in This Book The icons in this book are important visual cues for information you need Remember icons highlight important things you need to remember Technical Stuff icons highlight technical details you can skip unless you want to bring out the technical geek in you 5 6 iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd Edition Tip icons... Your iPod Century Before going any further, check the box and make sure that all the correct parts came with your iPod Things you have and things you need The iPod box includes a CD-ROM with the iTunes software for the Mac and PC and the FireWire or USB cable you can use to connect your iPod to a computer All models (except the iPod shuffle) come with AC power adapter for connecting either the older iPod. .. 358 Resetting the iPod .358 Draining the iPod battery 359 Hitting the panic button 360 Using iPod Updater .361 Updating the iPod with iPod Updater .362 Restoring an iPod with iPod Updater .364 Table of Contents Part VI: The Part of Tens 367 Chapter 28: Ten iPod Solutions 369 How Do I Get My iPod to Wake Up? . by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes iPod ® & iTunes ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 3RD EDITION 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page i iPod ® & iTunes ® For Dummies ® , 3rd Edition Published by Wiley. the iPod 358 Draining the iPod battery 359 Hitting the panic button 360 Using iPod Updater 361 Updating the iPod with iPod Updater 362 Restoring an iPod with iPod Updater 364 iPod & iTunes For. Site The iPod Troubleshooting Guide The Podcast.net Directory The MusicMatch Jukebox Site Version Tracker iPodHacks iPoding iPod Lounge Apple Developer Connection iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd