Overview
Are you a visual learner? Make the most of your iPod and the iTunes music service with Master Visually iPod and iTunes. Organized into twenty-one chapters, with two-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions, you'll learn the basics and beyond, discovering the coolest, most surprising features of your music player. You'll find extra information and helpful hints in the sidebars.
Synopsis
Master Visually iPod® and iTunes®
"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you how rather than tell you why, then this intermediate to advanced level reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to accomplish more than 170 tasks with iPod and iTunes, including:
- Installing and updating software
- Rating songs and creating smart playlists with iTunes
- Connecting your iPod to your car stereo
- Importing CD audio into iTunes
- Using your iPod as a PDA
- Adding iTunes audio with iPhoto images
- Connecting your iPod to shared tune libraries
- "Master It" sidebars answer questions and present shortcuts
- High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
- Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
- Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewYou own an iPod. Maybe you’re even an iTunes customer. But iPod and iTunes can do tricks you never knew about. Spend a little more time exploring them: You’ll be amply rewarded. A guide will help -- preferably one that’s as easy and visual as Apple’s own i-Stuff. Like this one.
Organized into task-based two-page spreads, Master Visually iPod and iTunes doesn’t just tell, it shows. If an iTunes dialog box is involved, you see it. If an iPod screen is involved, it’s here. (Well, not for screenless iPod Shuffles, but you get the idea.) If photos are required -- for example, to walk you through connecting iPods with home audio systems -- they’re there, too.
Speaking of which: The authors show how to hook up to your car stereo or computer speakers, too. (And offer plenty of tips and solutions. Which volume control should you use: iPod or amp? How come you’re hearing something but it sounds awful?)
The authors cover all you need to know about Playlists (“Smart” and otherwise). You’ll learn how to rate songs, create playlists by date, even temporarily trim songs to make playlists of an exact length (perfect for exercising).
If you haven’t told iTunes to level out the sound across all your songs -- so you’re not constantly messing with the volume -- this book will show you how. There’s coverage of Internet radio, burning disks, networking iTunes libraries, iPods as voice recorders, even creating iMovie soundtracks with your iTunes tracks. If you want to make iPod and iTunes even more fun, get this book. Bill Camarda, from the June 2005 Read Only