A Newbies Guide to iPod Classic

In short, if you only intend to play your imported music through iTunes or on your iPod or other Apple device , then you can select the AAC format. For a more compatible library with other hardware and software, you will want to use the MP3 format. These formats are generally only of interest to higher-end users and audiophiles. More information and discussion on the various audio file formats can be found in our Digital Audio Formats forum in the iLounge Discussion Forums. Another possible source of music for your iPod is commercial music sources such as the iTunes Store.

The iTunes Store itself works within the iTunes software application, and any music purchased from the iTunes Store is automatically downloaded and added to your iTunes library. Note that many commercial digital music services use the Protected WMA format for their music, which is not compatible with iTunes or the iPod.

There are a few emerging services, however, such as eMusic http: These files contain no copy protection or other restrictions, and can be played on any player which supports the MP3 file format. Music purchased from other online sources will simply be downloaded to your hard drive, and must be added manually to iTunes in the same way as any other digital music file. You can also import your own books on CD into the iTunes library in much the same way as you would import any other CD. For more information on audiobook support in iTunes and on the iPod, including instructions for how to convert your own audiobooks into iTunes, see our Complete Guide to iPod Audiobooks and our Books and Spoken Word forum in the iLounge Discussion Forums.

Another good source of iPod content can be found in the iTunes Podcast directory. Podcasts are small audio or video clips, usually of an episodic nature, that you subscribe to. These include such things as news broadcasts, talk radio shows, audio and video blogs and more. Apple provides a podcast directory via the iTunes Store, and although the store interface is used, the podcasts themselves are generally free downloads. Once you subscribe to a podcast, iTunes will automatically download new episodes of that podcast as they become available, and transfer these to your iPod if you have configured it to do so.

Once you have imported your music into your iTunes library, you may still want to organize it to make information easier to find. Music imported from CD or purchased from legitimate online digital music stores should already have this information correctly filled in. However, often users who have collected music files from a variety of different sources may find that the information contained within the files themselves is inaccurate or incomplete. This information can be cleaned up in iTunes itself simply by selecting a file or group of files and choosing Get Info from the iTunes File menu.

For more information on this, see our tutorial, Tagging Songs in iTunes. Current iPod models also offer the ability to add album artwork to your music files which will be displayed on the iPod. This feature requires an iTunes Store account, but is free to use. For more information on adding album artwork manually to tracks in iTunes, see our tutorial, Adding album art in iTunes. In addition to organizing the tag information within files themselves, it may also be desirable to create playlists within the iTunes application to organize your favorite songs, or select groupings of music to transfer to your iPod.

To create a playlist, simply choose File, New Playlist from within iTunes. You can then add content to the playlist by dragging and dropping it from your main iTunes library window. The advantage of playlists is that these not only provide an organization for your music within iTunes and the iPod, but they can also be used a method for automatically synchronizing only selected content from your iTunes library onto your iPod. This is especially useful when you have a library that is significantly larger than the capacity of your iPod. Further, iTunes also offers a more advanced method of playlist—the Smart Playlist.

For more information on creating and managing playlists and smart playlists, see our tutorials on Creating Playlists in iTunes and Creating Smart Playlists in iTunes. Again, this is an area where iTunes makes things incredibly simple if you already have an organized iTunes library. If your iPod is large enough to hold your entire iTunes library, this is really the only step.

By default, iTunes simply tries to synchronize everything in your iTunes library onto your iPod. This works well for many users, and is by far the simplest solution.

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In this mode, your iTunes music library and your iPod are essentially mirrored copies of each other, including all of your playlists from your iTunes library. Any new tracks you add to your iTunes library are added to your iPod, and any tracks you delete are removed from your iPod. Further, information on ratings, last played times, and play counts are transferred from the iPod back to your iTunes library, as is the saved playback position in any audiobooks or podcasts you have listened to.

On the other hand, if your music library is larger than the capacity of your iPod, iTunes will notify you of this and offer to automatically create a playlist of content to fit on your iPod:. Once this playlist has been created, however, you can adjust the content as you would any other playlist. When you next connect your iPod, any content you have removed from this playlist will be removed from your iPod, and any new content you have added to this playlist will be added to your iPod.

What this automated process actually does, however, is set your iPod up to synchronize only selected playlists —specifically only the single playlist that it has automatically created for you. Fortunately, you can adjust these synchronization settings yourself, and choose additional playlists to synchronize.

This is done by connecting the iPod, and selecting it in the iTunes source pane on the left-hand side. ONLY the content in those playlists and the playlist entries themselves will be transferred to the iPod. Again, since this is synchronization , changing this setting will also remove any content that is no longer selected. With automatic synchronization, it is important to understand that you never actually manage the content directly on the iPod itself. If you want to remove a track from the iPod, you simply remove it from your iTunes library, or remove it from the playlist that is syncing with your iPod if you are syncing selected playlists only , and iTunes then removes it from the iPod during the next synchronization.

With automatic sync, there should never be content on your iPod itself that is not also located in your iTunes library, and in fact any content removed from your iTunes library will also be removed from the iPod, as it will continue to be a mirror image of either your entire library or those playlists which you have selected for synchronization. There are two significant considerations with automatic synchronization that might be a limitation for some iPod users. Firstly, since automatic synchronization mirrors the content of your iTunes library onto your iPod, it stands to reason that you must actually have an iTunes library on your computer and maintain this library.

This may not be practical for users with limited disk space. Secondly, automatic synchronization only works with one iTunes library. In fact, if you connect an iPod set to automatically synchronize with a given iTunes library to another computer running iTunes, it will notify you that your iPod is already associated with another library, and prompt you to erase your iPod if you want to sync it with the new library:. In this mode, your iPod essentially becomes its own distinct portable library. There is no longer any association between your iTunes library and your iPod, and you manage content on the iPod itself directly.

Once in manual mode, you add content to the iPod simply by dragging it from the iTunes library directly onto your iPod icon in the iTunes source pane, in much the same way that you would add content to a playlist. Further, you can view and manage the content on the iPod directly by clicking on the small triangle that appears to the left of the iPod icon in the source pane.

This will expand the folders on the iPod itself to show the categories of content and playlists stored on the iPod. You can then create new playlists, modify the properties of any given track or even delete it from the iPod completely in much the same way as you would in the iTunes library.

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The manual mode setting itself travels with the iPod. Once manual mode is enabled, it will remain enabled on any other iTunes library that you connect your iPod to. This will allow you to easily manage your iPod content and add new content from more than one computer. Keep in mind that in manual mode, information such as rating, play count and last played time will NOT be transferred back to your main iTunes library, but will only be stored on the iPod device itself.

This may limit the usefulness of Smart Playlists that rely on this information within your main iTunes library. Note that the one thing you cannot do in manual mode is transfer music from the iPod back to your computer. For more information on solutions for copying content from your iPod back to your computer, see our article, Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer. Further, manual mode only applies to music and video content. Manual mode is also exclusive to the iPod models themselves—the iPhone and Apple TV devices do not support manual management of content.

Finally, one important caveat: The iPod is a portable device that can easily be subject to loss or damage. Losing or damaging your iPod is bad enough, but losing your entire music library in the process would be much worse. Video capabilities were first introduced to the iPod family in with the release of the fifth-generation iPod. Since then, all of the iPod models, with the obvious exception of the Shuffle, now support video playback as well. Most of the basic concepts for synchronizing video content to the iPod work in much the same way as synchronizing audio content.

Content is imported into the iTunes library, managed via iTunes, and then synchronized to the iPod via either the various automatic synchronization options, or manually through drag-and-drop. Unfortunately, sources of video content are somewhat more limited, as iTunes does not provide any facility to import DVD video into the iTunes library. Therefore, for many users the only legitimate and easy source of video content becomes the iTunes Store, although there are other solutions available for converting video content into an iTunes and iPod ready format. The following articles provide comprehensive details on converting, importing, and managing video content in iTunes and on the iPod:.

In October , Apple added the ability for a new model of fourth-generation iPod to display photos and photo slideshows, a feature that has now become standard on all iPod models. Photo synchronization works via iTunes, but is handled very differently from other media types. For more information on synchronizing photos to your iPod, see our Complete Guide to iPod photo Pictures. The enhanced fifth-generation iPod introduced in Septmeber of introduced the ability for the iPod to support additional games that could be purchased from the iTunes Store. Posted by bonron in Toronto on March 17, at 2: However, I noticed that while I have over tracks about 56 GB in iTunes, the G only synced of these tracks.

Posted by rustypow in Toronto on March 26, at 8: Posted by tonna in Toronto on March 26, at Is there a compare tool in ITunes that shows the tracks in iTunes compared to what is exported to my iPod—when they are not the same? Posted by rustypow in Toronto on March 26, at I have a 3rd gen Nano 8gig. Just received it as a gift. Today when I try to import the songs to the library, they do not import. Some songs in itunes library do not sync into the ipod. Where do I go from here. Posted by Gary Mueller in Toronto on May 5, at 3: Can someone tell me what this is all about and how i can stop it from happening.

I have been able to clear the iTunes library before without this happening. Posted by Debbi in Toronto on May 17, at Posted by jezzikuhh in Toronto on May 31, at 9: Posted by zac in Toronto on June 20, at 5: I have a large 20 gig plus music library spread out over a home network.

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