The iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide: All the Secrets of the iPod, Pocket Sized.

Chapter 7. Tips and Tricks

You’re far enough along in this little guide to understand that the iPod and iTunes hold more secrets than just Rip, Click, and Play. This dynamic duo has other wonders to behold if you know how to unleash them. And that’s exactly the point of this chapter—to shed light on the lesser-known marvels of the iPod and iTunes.

Let the magic begin.

Moving Music Off the iPod

To deter music piracy, iTunes and the iPod were designed so that music would travel in one direction only: from the computer to the iPod. When you double-click an iPod mounted on a computer, you’ll find no folder within that holds the device’s music. Yet the music has to be there somewhere.

It is. It’s invisible.

When Apple designed the iPod’s copy-protection ...