14. Touring iTunes

In This Chapter

  • Learn why iTunes will rock your world.
  • Know how to speak in three-letter acronyms (TLAs), such as MP3 and AAC.
  • Recognize iTunes and iPod video formats.
  • Visit the iTunes Library.
  • Learn the best places to get content for your own Library.
  • Master your Library with playlists.
  • Play with the other members of the iTunes band.

With not-very-sincere apologies to Mr. Edison, Apple’s iTunes is the best thing to happen to music since the phonograph. It’s also becoming the best thing to happen to video since the TV, to movies since sound was added to moving pictures, and the best thing to happen to radio since, well, the radio.... I’m sure you get the idea. This amazing application enables you to do things with music, ...

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