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iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, Third Edition
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iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, Third Edition

by J.D. Biersdorfer
March 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
12h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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iTunes 4.7

This book describes iTunes version 4.7, which Apple released in October 2004. To claim your free copy, visit http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/. Here’s what’s in it for you (see Chapter 5 for more leisurely coverage):

  • A Party Shuffle feature that gives you more control over which songs from your iTunes library will be blasting out on the dance floor.

  • The ability to print out song playlists and fancy jewel-case inserts for your home-cooked CD mixes.

  • A new encoding format called Apple Lossless that lets you rip original-quality files that take up about half the space of the original CD tracks.

  • A Windows tool that converts non-copy-protected Windows Media Audio (WMA) files to iPod-friendly files.

  • An Eject button right next to the iPod’s name in the Source list. Just click and go when you’re ready to unplug your Pod and leave. No longer must you select the iPod’s icon and then click the iPod’s Eject button in the lower-right iTunes corner (although you can still do it that way if all the newfangled buttons are overloading your senses).

  • Photo-wrangling powers to sync up and manage picture collections stored on the iPod Photo model.

  • If you’ve got Apple’s AirPort Express mobile wireless base station, you can play your computer’s iTunes music through a connected stereo system or pair of remote speakers elsewhere in the house.

The iTunes Music Store, meanwhile, has a few new tricks of its own (Chapter 7):

  • iMixes, personal playlists that you can publish online so the world can see your ...

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