How to Do Everything with Your iPod

by Guy Hart-Davis (Conducted by)

Overview

Imagine your entire music library, contacts, and schedule -- all in the palm of your hand. How to Do Everything with Your iPod shows you how to get the most out of your iPod with both Mac OS X and Windows XP. Learn how to use your iPod's powerful operating system and phenomenal storage capacity not just to revolutionize your music listening, but also to keep all your vital information on hand and safely backed up. Step-by-step instructions walk you through MP3 essentials and show you how to get the best audio quality. Plus, use your iPod as a portable FireWire drive for backup and file transfer, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072227000
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia
Publication date:	03/24/2003
Series:	How to Do Everything Series
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xvii
Part I	Enjoying Audio on Your iPod
Chapter 1	Get Up and Running with Your iPod	3
	What Is an iPod?	4
	What Your iPod Doesn't Do	5
	Choose the iPod That's Best for You	6
	Understand the Different Models of iPod	8
	What's in the Box?	10
	Set Up Your iPod	11
	Connect Your iPod to Your Computer	12
	Install the iPod Software	13
	Load Your iPod with Music	14
	Connect Your Headphones or Speakers	15
	Use Your iPod's Controls	16
Chapter 2	Get Up to Speed with MP3 and Digital Audio	31
	Why Do You Need to Compress the Music?	33
	What Determines Audio Quality?	35
	What Does CD-Quality Audio Mean?	36
	What Is MP3 and Why Should You Use It?	37
	Understand Other Digital Audio Formats	38
	Understand Ripping, Encoding, and "Copying"	39
	Learn about CDDB and Other Sources of CD Information	41
	Choose an Appropriate Compression Rate	42
	Load Uncompressed Files on Your iPod for Unbeatable Sound Quality	45
	Copyright Law for Digital Audiophiles	46
	Understand Current Copy-Protection Techniques on the CDs You Buy	50
Chapter 3	Use iTunes to Load Music onto Your Mac iPod	57
	Get Your Mac Ready to Work with Your iPod	59
	Set Up and Configure iTunes on Your Mac	60
	Create, Build, and Manage Your iTunes Music Library	71
	Enjoy Music with iTunes	80
	Synchronize Your Music Library with Your iPod	88
	Listen to Audible.com Spoken-World Files on Your iPod	94
	Create Custom Playlists to Enjoy in iTunes or on Your iPod	95
Chapter 4	Use MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus to Load Music onto Your Windows iPod	99
	Get Your PC Ready to Work with Your iPod	100
	Install MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus on Your PC	102
	Configure MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus for Maximum Effectiveness	106
	Create, Build, and Manage Your Music Library	118
	Enjoy Music with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus	129
	Synchronize Your Music Library with Your iPod	132
	Create Custom Playlists to Enjoy in MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus or on Your iPod	139
Chapter 5	Create, Edit, and Tag Your MP3 Files	141
	Convert Other File Types to MP3, AIFF, or WAV so You Can Play Them on Your iPod	142
	Create MP3 Files from Cassettes or Vinyl Records	144
	Remove Scratches and Hiss from Audio Files	150
	Trim MP3 Files to Get Rid of Intros and Outros You Don't Like	152
	Tag Your MP3 Files with the Correct Information for Sorting	154
	Save Audio Streams to Disk so You Can Listen to Them Later	157
Chapter 6	Download Audio Files from the Internet	161
	Quick Reality Check on the Music Market	162
	Understand the Darknet and the Light	165
	Download Music Files from Web Sites	173
	Find Music Files in Newsgroups	175
	Share Your Own Music on the Internet	175
Chapter 7	Burn Audio and MP3 CDs with iTunes and MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus	177
	Understand the Basics of CD Burning	178
	Burn CDs with iTunes	179
	Burn CDs with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus	182
	Troubleshoot the Problems You Encounter When Burning CDs	190
Part II	Use Your iPod for Contacts, Calendar, and Other Text
Chapter 8	Use Your iPod to Take Your Contacts with You	201
	Understand the Wonders of vCards	203
	Create vCards from Your Contacts	207
	Put Contacts on Your Mac iPod	212
	Put Contacts on Your Windows iPod	220
	View Your Contacts on Your iPod	221
Chapter 9	Put Your Calendars on Your iPod	223
	What vCalendar and iCalendar Do and What They're For	224
	Create iCalendar and vCalendar Files from Your Calendars	227
	Put Your Calendars on Your Mac iPod	231
	Put Your Calendars on Your Windows iPod	235
	View Your Calendar on Your iPod	236
Chapter 10	Put Other Information on Your iPod	239
	Limitations to Putting Information on Your iPod	240
	What Text Can You Put on Your iPod?	241
	Mac Utilities for Putting Information on Your iPod	242
	A Windows Utility for Putting (Some) Text on Your iPod	249
Part IV	iPod Care, Advanced Topics, and Troubleshooting
Chapter 11	Keep Your iPod in Good Working Shape	253
	What You Might Want to Know about Your iPod's Internals	254
	Maximize Your iPod's Battery Life	256
	Understand What Makes Your iPod Unhappy	257
	Keep Your iPod's Operating System Up-to-Date	259
	Carry and Store Your iPod Safely	266
	Clean Your iPod	266
Chapter 12	Use Your iPod as a Hard Drive	267
	Why Use Your iPod as a Hard Drive?	268
	Enable FireWire Disk Mode	270
	Transfer Files to and from Your iPod	273
	Start Up Your Mac from Your iPod	274
	Back Up Your iPod so You Don't Lose Your Music or Data	279
	Optimize Your iPod's Hard Disk to Improve Performance	280
Chapter 13	Enhance Your iPod with Accessories	285
	Cases	286
	Stands, Docks, and Mounting Kits	289
	Power Adapters	290
	Headphones and Enhancers	293
	Weird Stuff	294
	Connect Your iPod to Your Stereo	295
Chapter 14	Learn Advanced iPod Skills	299
	Convert Your iPod from Mac to Windows--and Back	300
	Change the Computer to Which Your iPod Is Linked	301
	Synchronize Several iPods with the Same Computer	304
	Load Your iPod from Two or More Computers at Once	306
	Transfer Music Files from Your iPod's Music Library to Your Computer	309
	Play Songs from Your iPod Through Your Computer	321
Chapter 15	Troubleshoot Any iPod Problems You Encounter	323
	Your Warranty and How to Void It	324
	How to Approach Troubleshooting Your iPod	326
	Learn Troubleshooting Maneuvers	327
	Troubleshoot Specific Problems	336
	Index	349

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
So you’re thinking: To listen to a few MP3s on my iPod, I need a book? Well, you paid a lot for that iPod. If you want to get the most out of it, you do want a book. This one.

Whether you’ve got a Mac iPod (a.k.a. MiPod) that works with iTunes, or a Windows iPod (WiPod) that uses MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus, this book’s for you. Everything music related is here, of course: ripping and uploading tunes, optimizing quality vs. disk space, organizing music libraries, creating playlists, troubleshooting, you name it. Got a Mac? You’ll learn how to use iTunes’ nifty equalization feature to make your music sound even better. Got Windows? You’ll learn how to use volume leveling to protect your precious eardrums -- even how to use MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus as a musical alarm clock.

But music isn’t all your iPod can do. For one thing, it doubles as a PDA in stylish disguise. Guy Hart-Davis offers detailed coverage of all those features. There’s a full chapter on storing your contacts as vCards (and creating vCards from everything from Entourage to spreadsheet or database text files). There’s equally detailed coverage of iPod’s read-only calendar features (including integration with Apple’s iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and even Palm Desktop. Hart-Davis shows how to get other text onto your iPod (for example, downloading news headlines when you sync).

By the way, when we see Guy Hart-Davis’s name on a book, we know it’ll read as smooth as silk -- and be just plain fun, too. So it is here. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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