iPOD & ITUNES for Dummies Portable Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

And Just Who Are You?

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Firing Up Your iPod

Introducing the iPod

Comparing iPod Models

Things You Have and Things You Need

Thumbing Through the Menus

Pressing the iPod Buttons

Chapter 2: Setting Up iTunes and Your iPod

Installing iTunes

What You Can Do with iTunes

Opening the iTunes Window

Visiting the iTunes Store

Setting Up an Account

Chapter 3: Getting Songs into Your iPod

Browsing and Previewing Songs

Buying and Downloading Content

Changing other iTunes Store preferences

Adding Music from CDs

Setting the importing preferences

Ripping music from CDs

Synchronizing Your iPod Automatically

Chapter 4: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting in iTunes

Browsing by Artist, Album, and Cover

Understanding the Content Indicators

Changing the List View Options

Sorting Content by the List View Options

Searching for Content

Finding the Content's Media File

Chapter 5: Adding and Editing Information in iTunes

Retrieving Song Information from the Internet

Retrieving information automatically

Retrieving information manually

Entering Content Information

Editing the Information

Editing multiple items at once

Editing fields for a single item

Adding a rating

Chapter 6: Organizing iTunes Content with Playlists

Creating Playlists

Making playlists of albums

Rearranging and managing playlists

Deleting items from a playlist

Using Smart Playlists

Creating a smart playlist

Editing ...