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iPods 101: HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM YOUR iPOD.
2 TABLE OF CON TENTS INTRODUCTIO N ………………… …………………… ………. 4 CHAPTER 1: GETTIN G STARTED … …………………… …. 6 Windows PC … …………………… …………………… … 6 Macintosh …… …………………… …………………… ….
3 CHAPTER 7: IPO D FOR MAP DIRECTIO NS ………… … 26 CHAPTER 8: IMPO RT AUDIO B OOKS …………… ………28 Optimize Your Import Setting s ………………… ….29 Importing …… …………………… …………………… …30 CHAPTER 9: VOICE RECORDING WI TH IPOD ……….
4 iPod Preferenc es …………………… ………………….5 8 CONCLUSION …………………… …………………… ………..59 INTRODUCTION Since the iPod wa s first introduce over fours ago is has proven to be a v ersatile little tool .
5 Store up to thou sands of songs fr om your private music collection so th at you can listen to them wherever you wa nt to take them . Store up to thou sands of dig ital photos. Th is is ideal for viewing when ever you want as well as for back ing up your digital p hotos until you c an transfer them to your computer.
6 You can record y our own voice m emos. This is do ne by purchasing an optional microp hone. You can play ga mes. The following pages out line some of the cr eative things that you can do w ith your iPod.
7 iTunes. Make su re that you are r unning the latest version, 4.7 or h igher. You shou ld find iTunes on the CD that is includ ed with your iPod purchase. Software for you r iPod. You shou ld find the softwa re on the CD that is included with you r iPod purchase .
8 checking out th e iTunes website a t www.apple.com/ itunes . Software for you r iPod. You shou ld find the softwa re on the CD that is included with you r iPod purchase . Preparing your iPod Before you start using your iPod y ou will need to p repare it for use.
9 have two opt ions when it comes t o obtaining mus ic for your iPod: (1) import ing to your comp uter from a CD, or (2) buying music on line at iTunes. To import music fro m a CD use the following steps: 1. Choose a CD an d put it into your CD drive.
10 disconnect . Disconnecting is easy by squeez ing both sides of the dock conn ector before you remove it from your iPod. Use the whee l on your iPod to cho ose a song to p lay. CHAPTER 2: MAKIN G THE MOST OF YOUR IPOD CONTROLS Press any button your iPod to activate it so that th e main menu displays.
11 Wheel Function s Following are some bas ic wheel functions that you will want to get the hang o f using: Tuning the iPod: Press any button. Turning off the iPod: Press the play/pause button and hold down. Selecting an item on the menu: Use the whee l to scroll to the men u item.
12 Return to the pr evious menu: P ress and hold t he menu button. Searching for a s ong: Choose the music option wh ich is found on the main menu. Playing a song: Make sure the song that you want to play is highlighte d. Press the play/pause button or select .
13 An orange bar will appear if you h ave done this correctly. Scrolling through your photos: G o to the photo viewing screen. Use the wheel to move back an d forth through your d igital photos. Using the photo slideshow: Choose an album or a single photo.
14 Create your own music CDs. You will need to hav e a CD burner in you r computer to do this. Create your own playlists of songs that you want to listen to in one s ession. You can then publish your playlist, which is called an “iMix”, to the iTunes Mu sic Store for others t o see and use as inspiration.
15 Organizing and t ransferring mus ic from your com puter to your iPod is what makes the iPod such a unique MP3 player. Music tra nsfer is fast and easy. When you connect your iPod to your computer it w ill connect automat ically by default. Transfer Music Aut omatically You can set your iPod so that music is transferred automatically.
16 listen to so that as your musical tastes change , so does your iPod music and artist selection. You also have th e ability to manually transfer son gs to your iPod. This gives you the capab ility of transferring individual songs as well as playlists.
17 computer withou t worry of los ing important data. You can then transfer th ese photos to you r iPod for viewing. Another great fu nction of the iPod Photo is that y ou can connect your iPod to your telev ision so that you can view them with family and friends.
18 You have the ab ility to import other types of digita l images into iPhot o. This includes any images that you have download ed from the Inte rnet. If you don’t hav e the iPhoto pr ogram you can st ill import digital photos to your computer using “Image Capt ure”.
19 Open up the iTun es program and choose the iPod icon in the iTunes So urce List. Choose the options button. Click on photos and then c hoose the synchronize photos from option. When t he pop up menu ap pears, choose the iPhoto option. You can now cho ose to copy a ll of your digital ph otos to your iPod.
20 You have the opt ion of import ing all of your photo s to your iPod or you can choose to import only certa in photos from your photo albums. This option requires that you choose the copy selected albums only selection.
21 Click on the photos option and th en choose the synchronize phot os from option. Choose the photoshop albu m or photoshop elem ents option from the menu. You have the opt ion of import ing all of your photo s to your iPod or you can choose to import only certa in photos from your photo albums.
22 Click on the photos option and th en choose the include full resolution ph otos option. At this time iTunes will copy your full resolution ph oto copies to the “ph otos folder” that is on your iPod.
23 Canon Nikon Olympus Sanyo Sony Epson Casio Minolta See individual ca mera listings to f ind out which spec ific cameras are com patible. You’ll find a complete list of these cameras at www.app le.com/support/ipod/p hotos .
24 using an Explore r window you’ ll find that you won’t be able to play them on your iPod. The following ste ps will show you how to use your iPod as a storage drive: Connect your iPo d to the compute r. If iTunes doesn’t open automat ically, open it manu ally by clicking o n it.
25 You will now find the iPod icon on your desktop as well as in my computer in Windows. All you need to do is double click on t he icon and drag your files from o r to the iPod window to copy them ov er. Remember to eject your iPod b efore you disconn ect it from the comput er.
26 copy these song file from your iPod back to your computer so that you can r eload your librar y of songs. The only thing that you can do is encode the mu sic files from you r collection of CDs one more time a nd then sync th is new library to your i Pod.
27 MP3 player. But j ust what is iPod-iWay? This serv ice will give you step by step directions w hen you are driving so that you know exactly where yo u are going and how to get there. All you ha ve to do is expor t the results that you get for online driv ing directions as pro vided by Yahoo Maps.
28 CHAPTER 8: I MPORT AUDI O CD AUDIO BOOKS TO ITUNES Many people th ink that the iPod is only for music. If you do, you are miss ing out on a big feature since the iPod is ideal for listen ing to audio books. The iPod can provide you with a great aud io book experienc e.
29 Optimize your Import Setting s The first thing th at you need to do is make sure t hat your import settings a re at their optimum best for the s poken word and audio books. The fo llowing steps will ensure that your import settin gs are the best that they can be: Open up iTunes and click on the preferences dialog.
30 Uncheck play songs while you are importing the a udio book. You’ll also want to uncheck the use error correction when reading audio CD s option. Both of these options w ill slow down the import process so you’ll want to ha ve them both unchecked to spe ed things up.
31 you have to do a s well as ensures that the track information is m uch more usab le on your iPod. Put the audio book CD into your CD drive. Wait a minute or two fo r the tracks to show up in iTunes. Keep in mind tha t you might have to dismiss one or more dialogs wh ich will prompt you to agree to so me sort of automat ic action.
32 Click on okay . The above in formation about the audio book will be sub mitted. At this time you will be prompted to cho ose the select CD cat egory because the database tha t is online uses a different categor y for audio books. Select the books & spok en option and click okay aga in.
33 number to the so ng. Keep in mind that a short for mat is better than a long one, particularly if you have an iPod mini which has a narrow scr een. You might want to consider using the format “xx/yy”. “xx” is the d isc number and “yy” is the number of discs in total.
34 A note here on a ccountability of legal issues. If y ou have checked audio bo oks out of the library, you have th e fair right to listen to them on your iPod. However , once you have listened to the audio book y ou should delete it from your iTunes library.
35 Audio Hardwar e You will need to have a 3 rd generation iPod f or record ing voice and other s ounds. A 3 rd generat ion iPod will have the dock connector o n the bottom. You have three c hoices when it comes to “input”: Belkin Voice Rec order: The Be lkin voice recorder is quite compact w hen it isn’t attached to your iPod.
36 permanently atta ched to your iPod. For mor e information abou t the Griffin iTalk visit their websit e. http://www.griffi ntechnology.com /products/ Universal Microp hone Adapter: T he Universal Microphone Adap ter is also made by Belkin and is a great choice if yo u are looking for an external microphone for y our iPod.
37 have recorded. I f you are already familiar with digital media you most likely have Quick Time. If you, this is the right time to obta in the free vers ion or upgrade to the full version.
38 simple and easy to use. When yo u want to access your recording session s you don’t even need to have th e microphone atta ched to your iPod. All you need to do is navigate to the extras menu and choose voice memos . Transferring your recording sessio ns to your computer is just as easy as r ecording.
39 When you choos e the manual mode you w ill automatically be activating the enable disk use . This will put an iPod icon on your desktop . This icon will give you acc ess to your iPod just the same as you would get with any FireWire h ard drive. Click on the iPod icon and search for the recordings folder.
40 you. Consider leaving iTunes co mpletely out of t he picture and organizing a ll of your audio f iles in a mus ic directory specific for your .wav files. Th is can save you a lot of time when it comes to editing your aud io files. CHAPTER 10: LASER BEAM AN D FLASHLIGHT You probably a lready take your iPod with you wh erever you go.
41 mean that your iPod has one more bit of functiona lity that makes it a great investment. The Griffin iBeam ha s been designed for the following iPods: the iPod mini the iPod Photo 4 th .
42 never have to ha ve all those multiple remote contr ols lying around your hom e. You will need the following items to convert your iPod to a remote contro l: any model of iPod a PC or a Mac.
43 Install the Tota l Remote software to the pocket PC. Follow the direct ions and begin entering all of th e remotes that yo u want to us e on your iPod to the software.
44 with this. You ca n buy a 3.5 ste reo audio cable anywhere where electron ics are sold. On your PC use a program for sound editing tha t edits sounds as well a s removes chann els. One such program is SoundForge : http://www.sonymed iasoftware.c om/products/sou ndforgefa mily.
45 bit stereo, PCM .wav file. For exa mple, you can call it channel.wav. Adding the Sig nal to your iPo d Connect your iPo d to the crad le. When iTunes open creat e a new playlist an d call it something like television . Then you can add the .wav file to the playlist.
46 Preserve all of yo ur old tapes and LPs. Grab hold of Inte rnet streams suc h as podcasts to listen to whenev er and wherever you want. Create playlists t hat are absolute ly perfect. Create audio fil es from the text o f ebooks, n ews feeds, and web pages.
47 The Boom Box™ will also allow you to change any web page, email, or other wr itten document into a n audio file for listening rath er than reading. This will allow you to listen to your fav orite blogs, ema il from family an d friends, or web content fr om your iPod.
48 CHAPTER 13: MAKING SMART PLAYLISTS You have the opt ion of making m ediocre playlists for your iPod that simply “do the job”. Or you can master the art of creating Smart Playlists that wo w everyone including yourself. Smart Playlists are one feature of iTune s that is very underused .
49 the wheel will pu sh the whee l into “rating mode”. Once you are in the rat ing mode you will se e that there are stars on the screen. You can then turn the wheel to increa se or decrease the nu mber of stars tha t you are giving a particular song.
50 Create your Lis t Begin by mak ing certain selection s from the pop up menu in the area called criteria line . Select your s ongs based on certain attributes , operators, and values. The criteria lin e will usually only display one line . If you want to display more lines press the “+” button.
51 from. No matter where you get y our music from, such as the iTunes Mus ic Store or copied f rom your own CDs, attributes will a lways be looked a t in the same wa y. There is, however, one attribute that will group CDs track together and tha t is the album na me attribute .
52 Grouping: This attribute is used when yo u want to group more than one movement in a single class ical piece. Kind: The kind attribute is an audio file format. Some of the current au dio files that are supported include AAC, AIFF, App le Lossless, MPEG, and WAV.
53 Track Number: Every track on an album will be assigned a certa in track number . For example “6 of 10”. Year: The year attribute lists the year the tra ck was first released. Making Smart Playlists is a one way that you can get the most out of your iPod.
54 The Shuffle But tons There aren't ma ny buttons to p ush on the s huffle, and that's a good th ing because it ma kes it hard for you to push the wrong one.
55 When you pause the shuffle, the green light blinks a t you. If you leave th e shuffle pau sed, the light stops blinking after a minute, a nd it's easy to fo rget that it's stil l on.
56 playlist, the iPod shuffle always starts over , for the sake of simplicity, which makes this tip work. (It also work s on other iPods if you turn on repeat all in the settings. But other iPods have screens, which makes them some what easier to nav igate).
57 If you press a bu tton and see both the green and amber lights blin king, one after another, that usua lly means there are no songs on the iPod, or some oth er error has occurre d. Try resetting it by turning it off for 5 seconds , then back on .
58 iPod Preferences When you conne ct your shuffle you will get acces s to a few iPod settings in iTunes preferences. Keep this iPod in the source list, also k nown as shado w mode, is a coo l feature that lets you mo dify the shuffle playlist even when the shuffle isn't conn ected.
59 CONCLUSION The iPod is one o f the most divers e music players to hit the market. Each da y, more and mor e people are f inding that their iPod is one thing that they d on’t want to live without. Apple has gone in an entirely new direction wh en it comes to the music play …and the gamb le paid off for them.
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