iPod: The Missing Manual, 11th Edition

Chapter 8. Tour the iPod Classic

You’ll learn to:

• Set up your Classic

• Navigate its menus, jacks, and switches

• Load your Classic with music

• Customize its settings

• Turn the Classic into an external hard drive

INTRODUCED IN THE FALL of 2001, the original chunky white iPod changed the world of portable entertainment, melding form and function into an easy-to-use pocket media player. Eleven years later, the iPod has evolved into several different versions, but the essence of original model lives on today as the iPod Classic.

As with the original iPod, today’s Classic is still simple to operate—five buttons and a click wheel take you to all your songs, movies, games, audio books, and everything else parked on your ’Pod. Even though the player doesn’t have a mouse, its controls work just like those on a desktop computer: You highlight an item on-screen and click the Classic’s center button, which either takes you to another menu of options or triggers an action—like playing a song, calling up a calendar, or displaying the time in Paris.

This chapter gives you a tour of the Classic’s many features and shows you how to load up the player with music. When you’re ready to put the multi in multimedia, visit Chapter 14 to learn how to watch video and Chapter 15 to load up photos. While this iPod may lack Internet connectivity and the small size of other iPods, its storage space (a whopping 160 gigabytes ...