iPod: The Missing Manual

Table of Contents

The Missing Credits; About the Authors; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgements; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; How to Use This Book; Chapter 1: Meet the iPod: Out of the Box and into Your Ears in 15 Minutes; 1.1 Meet the iPod Nano; 1.2 Meet the iPod Touch; 1.3 Meet the iPod Classic; 1.4 Meet the iPod Shuffle; 1.5 Install iTunes; 1.6 Unpack iPod and Set It Up; 1.7 Three Ways to Get Music for iTunes (and iPod); 1.8 Get Stuff Onto the iPod Nano or Classic: The Quick Way; 1.9 Manually Load the iPod Nano or Classic; 1.10 Fill Up Any iPod Quickly; 1.11 Manually Load Your iPod Shuffle; 1.12 Get Stuff on the iPod Touch: The Quick Way; 1.13 Manually Load Your iPod Touch; 1.14 Disconnect Your iPod from Your Computer; 1.15 Charge Your iPod the First Time; 1.16 Control the iPod Nano or Classic with the Click Wheel; 1.17 Other iPod Ports and Switches; 1.18 Basic Finger Moves for the iPod Touch Screen; 1.19 Special Buttons on the iPod Touch; 1.20 Find the Music on Your iPod—and Play It; Chapter 2: Bopping Around the iPod Classic, Nano, and Shuffle; 2.1 Turn the iPod On and Off—or Put It On Hold; 2.2 Navigate the iPod's Menus; 2.3 What's in the Music Menu; 2.4 Cover Flow on the iPod; 2.5 What's in the Videos Menu; 2.6 What's in the Photos Menu; 2.7 What's in the Podcasts Menu; 2.8 What's in the Extras Menu; 2.9 What's in the Settings Menu; 2.10 Other Menus: Shuffle Songs and Now Playing; 2.11 Customize Your iPod's Menus; 2.12 Set the iPod's Clock(s); 2.13 Use the iPod as an Alarm Clock; 2.14 Search for Songs on the iPod; 2.15 Jump Around Within Songs and Videos; 2.16 Adjust the iPod's Volume; 2.17 Charge Your iPod Without Your Computer; 2.18 Play FM Radio on the iPod Nano; 2.19 Play Games on an iPod; 2.20 Some Idiot Set the iPod Menus to Greek; 2.21 Lock Up Your Pod; Chapter 3: Touring the Touch; 3.1 Turn the Touch On and Off; 3.2 The Home Button and Home Screen; 3.3 What's in the Music Menu; 3.4 What's in the Videos Menu; 3.5 What's in the Photos Menu; 3.6 What's in the Settings Menu; 3.7 Other Icons on the Touch Home Screen; 3.8 Set Up and Check Your Mail; 3.9 Fancier Fingerwork for the iPod Touch; 3.10 Cut and Paste By Touch; 3.11 Customize Your Touch Menus; 3.12 Cover Flow in Motion; 3.13 The Now Playing Screen: The Basics; 3.14 The Now Playing Screen: Song Maneuvers; 3.15 Install (and Uninstall) New Apps; 3.16 Manage Apps in iTunes; Chapter 4: iTunes Basics; 4.1 The iTunes Window: An Introduction; 4.2 Change the Look of the iTunes Window; 4.3 Change the Size of the iTunes Window; 4.4 Import Specific Songs From Your CDs; 4.5 Change Import Settings for Better Audio Quality; 4.6 Three Ways to Browse Your Collection; 4.7 Get a Birds-Eye Look at Your Collection with Grid View; 4.8 Search for Songs in iTunes; 4.9 Shuffle Your Music in Many Ways; 4.10 Animate Your Songs: iTunes Visualizer; Chapter 5: iTunes Power Moves; 5.1 You're the Critic: Rate Your Music; 5.2 Listen to Internet Radio; 5.3 Share Your iTunes Music and Videos; 5.4 Change a Song's File Format; 5.5 Set Up Multiple iTunes Libraries; 5.6 Improve Your Tunes with the Graphic Equalizer; 5.7 Change a Song's Start and Stop Times; 5.8 Edit Song Information; 5.9 Edit Album Information; 5.10 Fetch Missing Album Covers; 5.11 Replace Album Covers Manually; 5.12 Find and Add Lyrics to Your Song Files; 5.13 View Lyrics on the iPod; 5.14 What iTunes Can Tell You About Your iPod; 5.15 Adjust Your iPod's Syncing Preferences with iTunes; 5.16 Load Songs Onto an iPod from More than One Computer; 5.17 Manually Delete Music and Videos from Your iPod; 5.18 Where iTunes Stores Your Files; 5.19 Move the iTunes Music Folder to an External Drive; 5.20 Copy Your Music from iPod to iTunes; 5.21 Back Up Your iTunes Files to Disc; Chapter 6: The Power of Playlists; 6.1 Make a New Playlist in iTunes; 6.2 Change an Existing Playlist; 6.3 Add a Playlist to Your iPod; 6.4 Delete a Playlist; 6.5 Make an On-The-Go Playlist on an iPod Nano or Classic; 6.6 Make and Edit On-The-Go Playlists on the iPod Touch; 6.7 Make a Genius Playlist in iTunes; 6.8 Make a Genius Playlist on the iPod; 6.9 Genius Mixes in iTunes; 6.10 Genius Mixes on the iPod; 6.11 Publish Your Own Playlists (iMixes); 6.12 Smart Playlists: Another Way for iTunes to Assemble Your Playlists; 6.13 iTunes DJ: Get the Party Started; 6.14 Three Kinds of Discs You Can Create with iTunes; 6.15 Burn a Playlist to a CD; 6.16 Print Playlists and Snazzy CD Covers; Chapter 7: Shop the iTunes Store; 7.1 Getting to the iTunes Store; 7.2 Shop the iTunes Wi-Fi Store; 7.3 An Overview of the Store's Layout; 7.4 Navigate the Aisles of the iTunes Store; 7.5 Set Up an iTunes Store Account; 7.6 Change the Information in Your Apple Account; 7.7 Adjust Your Store Preferences; 7.8 Find Music by Genre; 7.9 Buy aaaaaa Song or Album; 7.10 Buy Movies or TV Shows; 7.11 Buy Audio Books; 7.12 Buy iPod Games; 7.13 Buy iPod Touch Apps; 7.14 Download and Subscribe to Podcasts; 7.15 Usage Rights: What You Can Do with Your Purchases; 7.16 iTunes LPs; 7.17 Other Cool iTunes Store Features; 7.18 iTunes Gift Certificates: Buy 'Em and Spend 'Em; 7.19 Other Ways to Send iTunes Gifts; 7.20 iTunes Allowance Accounts; 7.21 Make an iTunes Wish List; 7.22 What to Do If Your Download Gets Interrupted; 7.23 Set Up Parental Controls for the Store; 7.24 Play iTunes Purchases on Multiple Computers; 7.25 Deauthorize Your Computer; 7.26 Use Your iPod to Copy Purchases to Other Computers; 7.27 See Your iTunes Purchase History and Get iTunes Store Help; 7.28 Buy Songs from Other Music Stores; Chapter 8: It's Showtime: Video on the iPod; 8.1 Add Videos to iTunes; 8.2 Play Videos in iTunes; 8.3 Transfer Videos to Your iPod; 8.4 Video Formats That Work on the iPod; 8.5 Play Videos on the Nano or Classic; 8.6 Shoot Video on the iPod Nano; 8.7 Play Videos on the iPod Touch; 8.8 YouTube Videos on the iPod Touch; 8.9 Play iTunes and iPod Videos on Your TV; Chapter 9: Picturing Your Photos on the iPod; 9.1 Setting Up: Get Ready to Put Photos on Your iPod; 9.2 Get Pictures onto Your iPod; 9.3 Digital Photographer Alert: Storing Full-Quality Photos on Your iPod; 9.4 View Photos on the iPod Classic or Nano; 9.5 View Photos (in a Pinch) on Your iPod Touch; 9.6 Play Slideshows on Your iPod; 9.7 Play Slideshows on Your TV; Chapter 10: The iPod as Personal Assistant; 10.1 iPod as an Address Book; 10.2 The iPod as Calendar; 10.3 Track Time: iPod as a Stopwatch; 10.4 Count Steps: iPod Nano as Pedometer; 10.5 Voice Memos: iPod as Audio Recorder; 10.6 Tick-Tock: iPod as a World Clock; 10.7 iPod as a Portable Hard Drive; 10.8 Read Text Files on Your iPod; Chapter 11: Surfing the Web with iPod Touch; 11.1 Get Your Wi-Fi Connection; 11.2 Going on a Safari Tour; 11.3 Zoom and Scroll Through Web Pages; 11.4 The Safari Address Bar; 11.5 Use the Touch Keyboard; 11.6 Create and Use Safari Bookmarks; 11.7 Edit and Organize Bookmarks and Folders; 11.8 Syncing Bookmarks with iTunes; 11.9 The Safari History List; 11.10 Tapping Links; 11.11 Mapping Your Way with Wi-Fi; 11.12 Search the Web; 11.13 Audio and Video on the Web; 11.14 Social Networking on the iPod Touch; 11.15 Manipulate Multiple Pages; 11.16 Pop-up Blockers, Cookies, and Security; 11.17 RSS: The Missing Manual; 11.18 Find Other Mobile-Friendly Sites; 11.19 Use MobileMe to Keep Data in Sync; Chapter 12: iPod Out Loud; 12.1 Taking Your iPod on the Road; 12.2 Connect the iPod to a Home Entertainment System; 12.3 iPod Speaker Systems; 12.4 Stream iTunes Music with AirPort Express; 12.5 Find a Power Source for Your iPod; 12.6 Where to Find Cool iPod Stuff; Chapter 13: What to Do When the iPod Isn't Working Right; 13.1 Apple's Alphabet: The 5 "R"s of iPod Repair; 13.2 Reset Your iPod; 13.3 Download and Reinstall iTunes and iTunes Updates; 13.4 Use the Diagnostics Tools in iTunes for Windows; 13.5 Update the iPod's Software; 13.6 Start Over: Restoring Your iPod's Software; 13.7 Understanding the iPod's Battery Messages; 13.8 Apple's Tips for Longer iPod Battery Life; 13.9 Replace Your iPod's Battery; 13.10 AppleCare—What It Is and Whether You Need It;

J.D. Biersdorfer is the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book, and is co-author of The Internet: The Missing Manual and the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual. She has been writing the weekly computer Q&A column for the Circuits section of The New York Times since 1998.

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.