iPod® & iTunes® FOR DUMmIES‰ 6TH EDITION by Tony Bove iPod® & iTunes® FOR DUMmIES‰ 6TH EDITION iPod® & iTunes® FOR DUMmIES‰ 6TH EDITION by Tony Bove iPod® & iTunes® For Dummies®, 6th Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2008 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: 2008935269 ISBN: 978-0-470-39062-7 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 About the Author Tony Bove has written more than two dozen books on computing, desktop publishing, and multimedia, including iLife ’04 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), The GarageBand Book (Wiley), The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam), and a series of books about Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator, and PageMaker. Tony also founded Desktop Publishing/ Publish magazine and the Inside Report on New Media newsletter, and he wrote the weekly Macintosh column for Computer Currents for a decade, as well as articles for NeXTWORLD, the Chicago Tribune Sunday Technology Section, and NewMedia. Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the 1960s counterculture, Tony produced a CD-ROM interactive documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane). He also developed the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and podcasts focused on rock music history. As a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers (www.flyingotherbros.com), which toured professionally and released three commercial CDs (52-Week High, San Francisco Sounds, and Estimated Charges), Tony performed with Hall of Fame rock musicians. Tony has also worked as a director of enterprise marketing for leading-edge software com- panies, and as a communications director and technical publications man- ager. Tony offers iPod, iPhone, and iTunes tips and techniques on his Web site (www.tonybove.com). Dedication This book is dedicated to my siblings and cousins, and my sons and their cousins and children . the iPod generation. Author’s Acknowledgments I want to thank John Paul Bove and Jimi Eric Bove for providing technical expertise and performing valuable testing. I also want to thank Rich Tennant for his wonderful cartoons, and Geoff Coryell and Dennis Cohen for technical expertise. And let me not forget my Wiley editors Paul Levesque and Virginia Sanders for ongoing assistance that made my job so much easier. A book this timely places a considerable burden on a publisherís production team, and I thank the production crew at Wiley for diligence beyond the call of reason. I owe thanks and a happy hour or three to Carole McLendon at Waterside, my agent. And finally, I have Executive Editor Bob Woerner at Wiley to thank for coming up with the idea for this book and helping me to become a profes- sional dummy — that is, a Dummies author. 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/. 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Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Composition Services Gerry Fahey, Vice President of Production Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services Contents at a Glance Introduction ................................................................ 1 Par t I: Set ting Up and Acquiring Media Content ............ 7 Chapter 1: Firing Up Your iPod and iPhone ...................................................................9 Chapter 2: Setting Up iTunes and Your iPod and iPhone ...........................................35 Chapter 3: Getting Started with iTunes ........................................................................45 Chapter 4: Shopping at the iTunes Store ......................................................................57 Chapter 5: Bringing Content into iTunes ......................................................................87 Chapter 6: Playing Content in iTunes ..........................................................................105 Chapter 7: Sharing Content Legally .............................................................................127 Par t II: Managing Your Media .................................. 141 Chapter 8: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting in iTunes............................................143 Chapter 9: Adding and Editing Information in iTunes...............................................159 Chapter 10: Organizing iTunes Content with Playlists .............................................171 Chapter 11: Synchronizing Devices with iTunes .......................................................183 Chapter 12: Gimme Shelter for My Media ...................................................................209 Chapter 13: Fine-Tuning the Sound .............................................................................225 Par t III: Playing Your iPod or iPhone ........................ 235 Chapter 14: Playing Content on Your iPod or iPhone ...............................................237 Chapter 15: Surfin’ Safari on the Web .........................................................................269 Chapter 16: Using iPod and iPhone Applications ......................................................283