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OS X Yosemite For Dummies

by Bob LeVitus
October 2014
Beginner
512 pages
11h 40m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 14

The Musical Mac

In This Chapter

arrow Using iTunes

arrow Working with media

arrow Playing with playlists

Along time ago, before the iPod and the iTunes Store were born, iTunes was a program you used to store and manage your MP3 music files. Over the ensuing years, it has grown into much more. Today, iTunes manages not only your music collection but also your video collection. And if you use devices such as an iPod, Apple TV, iPad, or iPhone, you manage the music, video, and iOS apps on them in iTunes, too.

So the anachronistically named iTunes is the program you use to manage audio, video, and iOS app files on your hard drive and to manage syncing files with your iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad devices.

Although entire books have been dedicated to iTunes alone, I share the most important stuff — the handful of things you really need to know — in this chapter.

Introducing iTunes

iTunes is the Swiss Army knife of multimedia software. After all, what other program lets you play audio CDs; create (burn) your own audio or MP3 CDs; listen to MP3, AIFF, AAC, WAV, Audible.com, and several other ...

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