Macs For Dummies, 13th Edition

Chapter 14

Living in an iTunes Nation

In This Chapter

Touring the iTunes jukebox

Managing your music collection

Finding music in the cloud

Turning your Mac into a radio

Downloading books, podcasts, videos, movies, and more

The demographers may have missed it, but a major population explosion took place during the aughts. Everywhere you looked, vast colonies of tiny white earbuds proliferated. They were spotted on subways and on the street, on airplanes, buses, and college and corporate campuses.

Those signature white earbuds (eventually EarPods, of course) were initially connected to iPods and later to their close Apple kin, iPhones. There’s every chance that you’re reading a Macintosh book because of them. Although iPods and iPhones are meant to work with iTunes software on Windows machines as well as on Macs running OS X, your first infatuation with the Mac may well have occurred in an Apple Store, when you ostensibly went to check out the darling of all portable music players. ...