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iPod: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition
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iPod: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition

by J.D. Biersdorfer, David Pogue
October 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
304 pages
9h 25m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Audio and Video on the Web

In general, streaming audio and video on the Touch is a bust. The Touch doesn't recognize the Real or Windows Media file formats, nor does it understand Flash. All of this means that the iPod can't easily play the huge majority of online video and audio recordings.

But the iPod Touch isn't utterly clueless about streaming online goodies. It can play some QuickTime movies, like movie trailers, as long as they've been encoded (prepared) in certain formats (like H.264). It can also play MP3 and WAV audio files right off the Web. Here are a few sites to sample:

Actually, any old MP3 file plays fine right in Safari. If you've already played through your 8, 16, or 32 gigabytes of music synced from your computer, you can always do a Web search for free mp3 music.

As for video, you have more to watch on the Web than just Touch-friendly streaming videos that you can get back at Home→YouTube. Apple, in addition to ...

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