A USB cable to connect the iPod to your computer. What you want right now is the USB cable. In addition, the iPod begins to charge, as described on the next page. Right out of the box, your iPod probably has enough juice to run for a while without your having to charge it up.
It takes only a few hours to fully charge your iPod battery, and even less time to do what Apple calls a fast charge , which quickly powers up the battery to 80 percent of its capacity. Chapter 2 has more on that. Once you have iTunes running on your computer, you can start filling it up with music and then loading it onto your iPod.
You just want to load up some music. Here are three simple ways to do that:. When iTunes first opens and displays your sad, empty music library, it suggests a couple of ways to get yourself some tunes—namely by buying them from the iTunes Store or converting songs from your CD collection into iPod-ready files. Those methods are described on the opposite page. In the box that appears, navigate across your hard drive to your folder of music, select it, and click the Choose button to pull your songs into iTunes.
The good news is that when iTunes finds WMA files, it can automatically convert them to an iPod-friendly format. You can also use iTunes to convert tracks from your audio CDs into iPod-ready music files.
The program asks if you want to import the CD into iTunes. Once you tell iTunes to import music, it begins adding the songs to your library. Chapter 4 has more about using iTunes to convert CDs. Another way to get music for your iTunes library and iPod is to buy it from the iTunes Store. The content goes straight into your iTunes library and then onto your iPod. Chapter 7 is all about using the iTunes Store. If you opt to do that, you automatically set your iPod to autosync.
That may sound like a lot of room, and it is for music, but once you start adding hefty video files, that space disappears fast. If you want more control over the music that iTunes syncs to your iPod, jump over to the next page to read about selective ways to load up your Touch.
Until you do, the Touch just sits there, empty and forlorn, in your iTunes window, waiting for you to give it something to play with.
Click the iPod Touch icon on the left side of the iTunes window the Source list. This opens up a world of syncing preferences for your iPod. Click the Music tab, and then turn on the Sync Music checkbox.
No playlists yet? See Chapter 6. Now you can click the songs, albums, or playlists you want on your iPod and drag them to the Touch icon in the Source list. Every item in your iTunes library has a checkmark next to its name when you first import it.
Then go back and check only the stuff you do want. If your answer is yes, then just click the Finish button. Your iPod is ready to go. But if you just want to stick with the music for now, Chapter 9 can fill you in on the photo business. If you generally like the autosync feature but want more control over what goes onto your iPod, read on to find out how to make that happen.
If you have a small-capacity iPod, you may already have more music than can fit onto your player. Click the button circled below to see a list of all the songs in your music library. Click the songs or albums you want to copy to your iPod. Drag your selections onto the iPod icon. You can manually load any items in your iTunes library—audio books, movies, whatever—onto your iPod this way.
Classic owners can chuckle here. After that, each time you connect your Shuffle, a small panel appears at the bottom of iTunes, inviting you to fill up your player with a click of the Autofill button. Although Autofill used to be a Shuffle-only feature, other iPods can use it as well, as long as you set them to manually manage music. To use Autofill with a Touch, Nano, or Classic, connect the iPod and click the flippy triangle next to its icon in the iTunes Source list.
The Autofill bar appears at the bottom of the screen. Click the Autofill button to load up. In the Autofill From pop-up menu, tell iTunes to snag songs from your entire library or just a particular playlist see Chapter 6.
Click the Settings button to have iTunes pick random tracks or to select highly rated songs more often. Check out Chapter 5 for the details. If you want to decide what goes onto your Shuffle, opt for manual updates instead of letting iTunes choose. When you click the Shuffle icon and it displays your song list, feel free to re-arrange individual songs in the order you want to hear them—just drag them up or down.
To delete songs from the Shuffle, select one or more tracks and then press the Delete key on your keyboard which deletes the song from your Shuffle only, not your iTunes library; see Manually Delete Music and Videos from Your iPod. You can also mix and match your song-loading methods. Start by dragging a few favorite playlists over to the Shuffle, and then click Autofill to finish the job.
Got iTunes installed? Got your iPod connected and the music you want copied onto it? Next up: Disconnect the iPod from your computer so you can enjoy your tunes on the go. Resist the impulse to yank the USB cable out of the iPod without checking it first. But if you see the image shown at left, you need to manually eject the iPod from your computer. Once all the gray screens go away and you see the regular menus again, you can safely liberate your iPod.
The iPod Touch keeps most of its controls behind its sensitive screen, but it does have a few physical buttons and jacks on the outside. Press the thin black button on top of the Touch to put it to sleep and save some battery power. These two buttons are on the left side of the Touch. Press the top one to increase the sound on either the tiny external speaker or an attached pair of headphones; the bottom button lowers the volume.
You can also push it to wake the Touch from sleep. Plug the included headphones into the small, round jack on the bottom edge of the Touch. You can also use non-Apple headphones, so long as the new gear uses the standard 3.
Dock connector. Most iPod accessories Chapter 12 , such as audio docks, connect through this port as well. Until the Touch arrived on the scene, iPods were controlled by a click wheel or control ring on the front of the player.
The Nano has a limited version of the touch-sensitive screen, and the Shuffle and the Classic still use the circular dashboard. Lightly touch a song title, app icon, or picture thumbnail on the screen with your fingertip.
This time, you keep your fingertip pressed down on the screen. You also use the drag move to nudge onscreen volume sliders up and down. A two-finger drag scrolls a window within a window which is, fortunately, not too common on mobile sites. The iPod Touch relies on the human touch—skin-on-glass contact—to work. You can, however, find special styluses that work; for example, Pogo tenonedesign.
This move lets you speed-scroll up and down through long lists of songs, or side to side through overstuffed photo albums. To flick properly, quickly whip your finger along the length or width of the screen. The faster you flick that finger, the faster the screens fly by. All your album covers appear onscreen, and you can flick through them until you find the one you want to hear. Finger spread and pinch. To make it bigger, put your thumb and index finger together, place them on that area of the screen, and then spread your fingers apart.
To go the opposite way and zoom out so things shrink back down, put those same fingers on the screen, separated this time, and then pinch them together. First, it serves as a shortcut to automatically zoom in on a photo or a section of a web page. You can also double-tap to zoom in on a section of a Google map Chapter 3. Two-finger tap. Two fingers, one tap. The Classic still clings to its click wheel for menu navigation and volume control.
Press it gently. The Classic is the only iPod left with a physical Hold switch. The small, round jack on the bottom of the Nano below or the top of the Classic above is where you plug in your white earbuds. The Nano and the Classic let you control media in different ways. Here are the finger moves that get your Nano singing:. Gently press your finger on an icon to open its menus, or on a song title to play it. Tap two times to zoom in on a photo—do the same to zoom back out. Lightly whip your finger side to side on the glass to move through the four pages of the Home screen.
Whip your finger up and down to scroll through long playlists. Hold down a volume control and slide your finger to adjust it. Home screen upside-down? Place two fingers on the glass and twist them in the direction you want the screen to be. Hold your finger on the screen while you play a song or look at a photo to return to the Home screen. Push any button to turn the Classic on. Then control it like so:.
Tap this button to return to any screen you just viewed. Press here to jump to the next song in a playlist Chapter 6 , or hold it down to zip through a song. This button starts a song; push it again to pause the music. Press here to choose a highlighted menu item. When you have a song title highlighted, the Select button begins playback. You see five tappable buttons at the bottom of the Music screen.
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