Product Description
Whether you’re completely new to iPod and iTunes or you’d like to discover advanced techniques for playing, managing, browsing, buying, and storing music and other files, iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 6th Edition can help you! The iPod and iTunes have revolutionized how we enjoy music, and this bestselling guide has been updated to keep you current. Here’s how to use the newest iPods, set up iTunes on your Mac or PC, purchase music and movies, rip CDs, organize your media library, make the most of digital sound, and so much more!
The latest iPods are much more than just digital music players. Now, surf the Web, rent movies, buy songs and directly download them, send and receive e-mails, store photos, play slideshows, watch videos, and play games. You’ll find information about all iPod models and how to set up iTunes so you can start enjoying your iPod right away. You’ll learn how to:
Learn how to use the iPod displays and scrolling wheels
Install iTunes and load your music
Keep your library organized so you can search, browse, and sort
Create playlists and burn CDs
Use your iPod as a hard drive
Share content legally
Synchronize your e-mail, contacts, and bookmarks
Complete with lists of ten common problems and solutions, and eleven tips for the equalizer, iPod & iTunes for Dummies, 6th Edition includes bonus chapters about early iPod models, creating content for iPod, tips for working with MusicMatch, using your iPod for backup and restore, and 14 web sources for additional information.
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Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #12501 in Books
Published on: 2008-09-22
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
408 pages
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Editorial Reviews
Review
This beginner's guide in the usual "Dummies" format shows how to set up, acquire, and manage media content; how to play with the iPod, hook it up to other components, and take it on the road; how to use advanced techniques; and how to troubleshoot common problems. Online bonus chapters (available at http://www.dummies.com/go/ipod4e/) cover MusicMatch Jukebox and online resources. Clear, with just enough background information; recommended for all libraries. (Library Journal, January 15, 2007)
From the Back Cover
Have music, movies, podcasts, contacts, and photos right in your pocket!
The iPod and iTunes have revolutionized how we enjoy music, and this bestselling guide has kept up with every twist and turn. Here's how to use the newest iPods, set up iTunes on your Mac or PC, purchase music and movies, rip CDs, organize your media library, make the most of digital sound, keep your calendar and contacts, and so much more!
Load it and go — set up iTunes and load your iPod with music, podcasts, audiobooks, movies, even TV shows and photos
Find your stuff — keep your library organized so you can search, browse, and sort to quickly find what you want
iTunes for everything — use iTunes to synchronize your iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, calendar, and contacts
Fine-tune your tunes — balance the bass or tweak the treble and create your own presets for the way you like to listen
iPod on the move — integrate an iPod with your car stereo or connect your iPod to a portable speaker system for a go-anywhere stereo
Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/ipod6e for bonus chapters about earlier iPod models and connections, creating multiple iTunes libraries, using your iPod as a hard drive, and much more!
Open the book and find:
How to acquire content and set up playlists
Advice on adjusting and limiting the volume on your iPod
Secrets for surfing the Web from your iPod touch
How to charge and maintain your battery
Steps for buying and downloading content from the iTunes Store
Tips for backing up an iTunes library
How to play content on your home stereo, TV, or car stereo
Troubleshooting tips
About the Author
Tony Bove has written more than two dozen computer books including all previous editions of iPod & iTunes For Dummies. Tony is also a professional musician and he blogs and writes tips about iPods, iPhones, iTunes, and theiLife applications at www.tonybove.com.
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Customer Reviews
Not up-to-date
This book (the 6th edition, that is) was published on the heels of Apple's recent updating of the iPod line with the new Nanos and Touches. I naively assumed that the timing was so that it could have the very latest info about the newest iPods. Not so. It refers to the pudgy third gen Nano as the latest thing. There's still a lot of good content here, but it is not as current as you might want.
Does the job
I always thought I was tech savvy, but after getting a Touch and trying to set it up with my old cds, I found myself struggling. This book helped me get my head wrapped around the concepts of iTunes and the iPod. I'm still having problems ripping cds, especially compilations or collections and it hasn't answered that issue. I still have multiple albums in my library that hold the songs of an individual artist on a compilation album and I can't seem to get them back together under one album. Its a minor frustration so far. As a general primer for someone trying to learn the iTunes and iPod universe it does a fine job.
Newer Edition Out with DVD
Five weeks after this 6th edition came out, the publisher came out with the iPod & iTunes For Dummies, DVD + Book Bundle (Dummies), which includes the same book seen here, but also a DVD tutorial, for the same price.
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