01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page i iPod® & iTunes® FOR DUMmIES‰ 3RD EDITION by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page iv 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page i iPod® & iTunes® FOR DUMmIES‰ 3RD EDITION by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page ii iPod® & iTunes® For Dummies®, 3rd Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005927619 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-74739-0 ISBN-10: 0-471-74739-4 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3O/SR/QZ/QV/IN 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page iii About the Authors Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes have kicked around the computer industry for decades, editing the influential Inside Report on New Media newsletter and writing for weekly and monthly magazines, including Computer Currents, NeXTWORLD, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Technology Section, and NewMedia. They also co-founded and edited Desktop Publishing/Publish magazine. Tony and Cheryl have written over a dozen books on computing, desktop publishing, and multimedia, including iLife All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam), and a series of books about Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator, and PageMaker. Tony has also worked as a director of enterprise marketing for a large software company, and as a communications director and technical publications man- ager. Cheryl recently founded and served as director of a charter school and has worked as a professional courseware designer and an instructor in com- puter courses at elementary and high schools. Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the Sixties counterculture, Tony and Cheryl produced a CD-ROM interactive documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and the Jefferson Airplane). They also developed the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and radio programs focused on rock music history. As a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers (www.flyingotherbros.com), Tony has performed with Hall-of- Fame rock musicians and uses his iPod to store extensive concert recordings. 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page iv 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page v Dedication This book is dedicated to John Paul Bove and James Eric Bove, both of whom contributed tips and spent considerable time testing iPods while turning a vacation into a book project. They have earned their own iPods. Authors’ Acknowledgments John Paul Bove contributed technical expertise and writing for this edition, and dedicated his Windows PC for testing versions of iTunes and iPods. He certainly earned his new laptop. We want to thank Rich Tennant for his wonderful cartoons. We also want to thank our Wiley project editor Tonya Maddox Cupp, and Editorial Manager Carol Sheehan, for ongoing assistance that made our job so much easier. A book this timely places a considerable burden on a publisher’s production team, and we thank the pro- duction crew at Wiley for diligence beyond the call of reason. We owe thanks and a happy hour or three to Carole McLendon at Waterside, our agent. And we have acquisitions editor Bob Woerner at Wiley to thank for coming up with the idea for this book and help- ing us to become professional dummies — that is, dummy authors. Finally, our heartfelt thanks to members of the Flying Other Brothers (Pete Sears, Barry Sless, Jimmy Sanchez, Bill Bennett, Bert Keely, TBone, and Roger and Ann McNamee) for the music that inspired us while writing this book. 01_747394 ffirs.qxd 8/26/05 10:38 PM Page vi Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register. Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Acquisitions, Editorial, and Production Media Development Project Coordinator: Shannon Schiller Project Editor: Tonya Maddox Cupp Layout and Graphics: Carl Byers, Andrea Dahl, Previous edition: Mark Enochs Denny Hager, Joyce Haughey, Clint Lahnen, Acquisitions Editor: Bob Woerner Barbara Moore, Barry Offringa, Melanee Prendergast, Ron Terry Technical Editor: Dennis Cohen Proofreaders: Joe Niesen, Carl William Pierce, Editorial Manager: Kevin Kirschner TECHBOOKS Production Services Media Development Manager: Laura VanWinkle Indexer: TECHBOOKS Production Services Media Development Supervisor: Richard Graves Editorial Assistant: Amanda M. Foxworth Cartoons: Rich Tennant (www.the5thwave.com) Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies Richard Swadley, Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher Mary Bednarek, Executive Acquisitions Director Mary C. Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Joyce Pepple, Acquisitions Director Composition Services Gerry Fahey, Vice President of Production Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services 02_747394 ftoc.qxd 8/26/05 11:16 PM Page vii Contents at a Glance Introduction ................................................................1 Part I: Setting Up and Acquiring Music .........................7 Chapter 1: Firing Up Your iPod ........................................................................................9 Chapter 2: Setting Up iTunes and Your iPod ................................................................35 Chapter 3: Getting Started with iTunes ........................................................................53 Chapter 4: Shopping at the iTunes Music Store ..........................................................61 Chapter 5: Importing Music into iTunes .......................................................................79 Chapter 6: Sharing Music sans a Lawyer ......................................................................89 Part II: Managing Your Music .....................................99 Chapter 7: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting in iTunes ...........................................101 Chapter 8: Adding and Editing Song Information in iTunes .....................................109 Chapter 9: Organizing Music with Playlists ...............................................................121 Chapter 10: Updating Your iPod with iTunes .............................................................131