iPod® and iTunes® for Dummies®, 7th Edition

Chapter 6. Getting Started with iTunes

In This Chapter

• Finding out what you can do with iTunes

• Playing music tracks on a CD

• Skipping and repeating music tracks

• Displaying visuals while playing music

• Getting suggestions from the Genius sidebar

More than half a century ago, jukeboxes were the primary and most convenient way for people to select the music they wanted to hear and share with others, especially newly released music. Juke joints were hopping with the newest hits every night. You could pick any song to play at any time, but you had to insert a coin and pay for each play. Radio eventually supplanted the jukebox as the primary means of releasing new music to the public, and the music was free to hear — but you couldn't choose to play any song you wanted at any time.

Today, using iTunes, you not only have a digital jukebox and a radio in your computer, but you also have online access to millions of songs, with most songs available for download for 99 cents each and entire albums available for download at less than the list price of a CD.

Connect your computer to a stereo amplifier in your home (through wires or Apple TV), or connect speakers to your computer, and suddenly your computer is the best jukebox in the neighborhood. Connect your computer to a television, and you have a full multimedia environment in your home, all controlled by iTunes. And after you've organized your content in iTunes, you can put it all on your iPod or iPhone to carry your jukebox with you.

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