The iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide, Second Edition

The iPod & iTunes

PocketGuide

All the Secrets of the iPod, Pocket Sized.

ChristopherBreen

Second Edition

The iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide, Second Edition

Christopher Breen

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Copyright © 2007 by Christopher Breen

Project editor: Jim Akin

Copy editor: Kathy Simpson

Production editor: Connie Jeung-Mills

Compositor and Illustrator: Owen Wolfson

Indexer: Rebecca Plunkett

Cover design: Aren Howell

Cover photography: Peachpit Press

Interior design: Kim Scott, with Maureen Forys

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While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the

author nor Peachpit shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any

loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions

contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described

in it.

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To my own little iBreen, Addie.

Acknowledgments

This book wouldn’t be in your hands if not for the

hard work and care of the following individuals.

At Peachpit Press: Cliff Colby (who edited a fair chunk

of the fi rst edition of the big ol’ Secrets of the iPod

and iTunes and proffered the original idea for an iPod

book); Jim Akin, who edited this edition of this book;

Kathy Simpson (who copyedited every version of the

big book and stepped in as editor of the fi rst edition

of this guide to whisk it out the door with nary a

glitch or bump); Rebecca Ross (who handled the

contract negotiations with such aplomb); the three

Nancys (Peterson, who edited the fi rst fi ve editions

of SotiPaiT; Davis, who Gives Final Approval; and

Ruenzel, who makes everything go ’round); Connie

Jeung-Mills (who coordinated production of the

book); Scott Cowlin (who is a book-selling machine);

Owen Wolfson (who laid out the book’s pages

and created some new illustrations), and Rebecca

Plunkett (who provided the index).

At home: My wife, Claire, who once again kept the

other parts of our lives together while I applied

nose to grindstone in the basement; and the boys of

System 9 for being such groovy cats.

Abroad: Rick LePage and Jason Snell at Macworld,

who, one fateful day, harmonized, “So ya like iPods,

eh? Howzabout we pay you to do nothing but write

about them for a year?”

And, of course, the designers behind the iPod and

iTunes. They just get better and better!