The Free iPod Book 2.0 Foreword and State of the iPod | 4 The Secrets of iLounge.com | 6 New features at the Lounge? Of course - here they are. Sneak Peeks: Summer Edition | 8 Upcoming iPod add-ons, 20 exclusives. First at iLounge. The All Things iPod Guide | 26 Fifteen steps to making the most of your iPod, anywhere. 1. Installing The Right iPod Software 30 2. Connecting Your iPod To Your PC/Mac 31 3. Filling Your iPod 32 Music 32 Podcasts 36 Radio 37 Videos 38 Photos & Art 42 Travel Goodies 44 Books 45 Calendars & Contacts 46 Games 47 Personal Data & Files 48 4. Enjoying Your iPod Everywhere 50 iPod Road Test: Porsche Boxster 62 5. Customizing Your iPod 66 Above: 6. Expanding Your iPod: Electronics 70 The iPods Everywhere Photo Contest 7. Playing With Your iPod: Toys 72 96 8. Protecting Your iPod: Cases & Film 74 9. Wearing Your iPod: Clothes 77 10. Maintaining and Repairing Your iPod 78 11. Selling Your iPod 80 12. Buying a New iPod 82 13. Calling With iPod: iTunes Phones 84 14. Gifting to iPod Fans 86 15. Joining The iPod Community 88 The iLounge Report Card: Over 900 Reviews | 90 Inside: Exclusive Sneak Peeks iLounge Art and Photo Contests | 96 at upcoming iPod add-ons 8 All Things iTunes, with Trivia | 104 Over 125 iTunes tips and 30 new trivia questions will The iPod 2010 make you an iTunes expert - or just teach you new tricks. Concept Art Contest 100 The iPod Directory | 176 Major iPod product and service providers, listed. Index to Advertisers | 187 Note: All ads in this Book are clickable. Beyond the iPod: Uncrate and Outblush | 188 Our friends at two leading shopping sites pick fun toys, furniture, and jewelry for iPod-loving guys and gals. Closing the Curtain | 192 introduction The Free iPod Book 2.0 The Free iPod Book 2.0 introduction Foreword: Our Book, Updated. iPods have evolved. So has The Free State of the iPod. A quick summary of the iPod’s past, present, and future, iPod Book. Now with coverage of video, premium accessories, and more. based on stories from the frequently updated news pages at iLounge.com. A long-time fan of Apple products, Dennis When we assembled last year’s first edition of The Free Lloyd ([email protected]) was a graphic Four Years, 50 Million iPods, 1 Billion Songs. Next? iPod Book, our goal was to create a one-click way for designer and DJ before creating iLounge. As iLounge readers to get pressing questions answered. Publisher, Dennis coordinates advertising, site As Apple shatters sales records and slays domestic and foreign competitors, fans impatiently await new products “How can I fix my broken iPod?” “Download the Book.” design, photo galleries, and contests for iLounge, “What’s new at iLounge?” “Download the Book.” “How do which now serves approximately four million I use iTunes to...” “Download the Book.” You get the idea. readers per month, and receives numerous accolades. Happily married with a dog (Rocket), Of course, Apple has a knack for changing things up in a Dennis Lloyd cat (Ferris), many iPods, and two turntables, he major way every six months, and it was a given that we’d Publisher lives in and loves Irvine, California. update the Book to address those changes. Since our last edition, Apple has introduced two new iPods - the Jeremy Horwitz ([email protected]) has 5G and nano, both covered in our subsequent Holiday written for publications from Electronic Gaming Buyers’ Guide - and two new versions of iTunes, with Monthly to The New York Times, having founded additional changes guaranteed to happen by year’s end. Ziff-Davis’ Intelligent Gamer magazine. A cum Similarly, the iPod accessory market has kicked into high laude graduate of Cornell Law School, Jeremy gear with over 2,000 different products now available, pens and presides over editorial content for both and we’ve been doing our best to keep up with all of iLounge and our Guides, paying special attention them, spotlighting the best ones on the iLounge.com to iPod reviews and new technologies. He lives web site. We know the sheer quantity of new iPod stuff Jeremy Horwitz with his Siberian Husky Sake (Sah-kay) and way can be overwhelming and confusing, so we’ve tried to Editor-in-Chief too many iPod add-ons in Irvine, CA. make it easier to find the most important details quickly. Larry Angell is iLounge’s Senior Editor, specializing in To that end, The Free iPod Book 2.0 is, like version 1.0, a news. Based in Ohio, Larry has covered Apple for years, digest-style guide to all things iPod, iTunes, and beyond. owned nearly every iPod, and spent way too much on If nothing else, 2006 will go down in the history books as a It’s hard to overstate how much the market has changed since It offers substantial new sections appropriate to both iTunes downloads. He previously worked in the mobile momentous year for Apple - the 50 millionth iPod was sold, the 2001: key players such as Dell, iRiver, and Rio have either fully or Apple and third-party offerings, with special attention to electronics industry with world champion car audio pros, billionth iTunes Music Store song was downloaded, and competitors substantially exited the MP3 player market, while Creative Labs and iPod and iTunes videos, new sections spotlighting both and currently lives with his girlfriend and cat. continued to fall like flies. The biggest surprise: pacing. In each case, Sony have considerably retrenched, posting massive losses while high-end and low-end iPod accessories, and looks at Apple has accomplished its goals substantially ahead of anyone’s acknowledging Apple’s increasing dominance. Surprisingly, Apple’s ways to integrate iPod-style sensibilities into other areas Bob Levens is iLounge’s Chief Forum Administrator and a schedules, crossing the iPod sales threshold more than twice as biggest competitor in America has turned out to be Sandisk - a of your life - fashion, travel, and even non-iPod shopping. contributor to the site. Located in Cambridge, U.K., Bob has fast as Sony sold its 50 millionth Walkman - over 10 years - and leading flash memory vendor that introduced its own iPod shuffle We’ve asked our friends from web sites Uncrate and worked in such diverse career fields as the nuclear power the iTunes threshold faster than the 15-some years McDonalds and iPod nano competitors - but its presence outside of the U.S. is Outblush to help pick out some lust-worthy, iPod fan- industry, TV and radio engineering, the Royal Air Force and took to sell its first billion hamburgers. As of the date of this Book’s weak; Asian competitors such as Samsung and Sony do better. Yet ready goodies for our Backstage section this time out, the Ministry of Defense. He lives with his wife, dog, and six publication, the iPod hasn’t even turned five years old yet - that Samsung recently boasted that it was joining Apple, to provide chips and added a couple of our own picks to the mix, as well. iPods, and enjoys music and WWII-era aviation. will be in November, 2006 - and the iTunes Music Store has only for a new series of mid-range, flash memory-based iPods, possibly recently celebrated its third birthday. It’s even more amazing with wireless and/or video playback technology. The boasts may Jerrod Hofferth is an iLounge Contributing Editor, whose The meat of The Free iPod Book 2.0 remains the same: considering that the iPod and iTunes Music Store both spent their have cost Samsung the deal. What’s next? According to analysts who features include our weekly Ask iLounge columns, iPod it’s still packed with iPod + iTunes tutorials, sneak first generations as Macintosh exclusives, essentially unable to be watch Apple, aggressive marketing of iPods in Asia, further steps into 101/201 Tutorials, and both eBay pricing and trivia sections peeks at upcoming accessories, and handfuls of other used by the masses of Windows PC owners. the living room, and exciting new wireless and video iPod features. found in this edition of The Free iPod Book. fun features you’ll remember from last year’s version - contests, trivia, and much more. As always, we’ve picked iTunes Music Store retains 99-cent U.S. song pricing model, now offers over 3,000,000 songs in 21 countries some outstanding contest winners for this issue’s art and Contributing Editors, Forum Administrators, and Moderators: photo contests, found in the middle of this 190-plus- Jesse Hollington, Charles Starrett, Mike McKenney, Aaron Steele, Andy Starting last Summer, pundits predicted and underpricing popular new music. page tome, and we strongly encourage you to check Hedin, Deeg, Doug Adams, Alicia Bankhofer, Albert Tan, Audrey McGirt, that 2006 might be a rough year for the The possible consequence? Pulling out out what the iLounge community has come up with. Brett, James, Ryan, Tom Levens, and Stuart VandeVenter. iTunes Music Store: contract negotiations of the Store, leaving Apple with the first with the industry’s largest recording labels We’ve also updated all of the previous Book’s sections The Free iPod Book 2.0 from iLounge.com is published by The Media diminished catalog in its history. were underway, and Apple was being to be current as of the June 2006 publication date, so LLC and is Copyright © 2005-2006. All rights reserved. No part of this book forced into a public battle with what CEO our massive iTunes Tips section now features pointers may be reproduced, sold, rented, or transmitted in any form, or by any Instead, May 1 brought a win for Apple: Steve Jobs described as “greedy” record on iTunes 6, iTunes Phones, and iPod format video means whatsoever, without the prior written consent of the publisher.