CHAPTER 10

Enjoying Music, Video, and Books

Your MacBook comes equipped with apps for enjoying music, podcasts, video, and books. The Music app enables you to copy songs from CDs, play them back, and create playlists. The TV app enables you to watch movies, TV shows, and videos. The Podcast app lets you enjoy podcasts. The Books app enables you to build an e-book library on your MacBook and read e-books anywhere.

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Add Your Music to the Music App

Set Up Home Sharing

Play Songs

Create Playlists

Create Smart Playlists

Listen to Apple Radio and Internet Radio

Enjoy Podcasts

Play Videos with the TV App

Read Books

Add Your Music to the Music App

The Music app enables you to build your music library quickly by adding your existing songs to it. You can copy songs from your CDs by using a SuperDrive or other optical drive connected to your MacBook. You can also import songs that you already have as digital files on your MacBook.

When importing songs from CDs, you can choose among different settings to create files using different formats and higher or lower audio quality. The highest-quality files give the best sound but require the most space on your MacBook’s disk.

Add Your Music to the Music App

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Click Music () on the Dock.

The Music app opens.

Insert a CD in the optical drive. ...

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