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Getting to Know the iPod Touch Controls

Trying to figure out how to use your iPod Touch controls? This video shows you how to browse playlists, songs, singers, and albums on your Apple iPod Touch: Just flick, tap, drag, or pinch to zoom in and [more…]

Getting to Know the iPod Classic and iPod Nano Controls

Trying to figure out how to use your iPod Nano controls? This video shows you how to play music, access your playlists, browse covers, and find podcasts on your classic Apple iPod. [more…]

Smart Playlists

iTunes comes with a few smart playlists. Under Party Shuffle (near the top of the Playlists section of the Source pane), you can find these smart playlists, which are indicated by a gear icon. iTunes comes [more…]

How to Organize Your Photos in Photoshop Album

Adobe Photoshop Album can help you organize your photos so that they are easier to find and so that groups of important photos are stored together. Windows users can use Photoshop Album to assign photos [more…]

How to Manage Multiple iTunes Libraries

You can create more than one iTunes library and manage multiple libraries with one copy of the iTunes application on your computer. You can also create one or more sub-libraries of your main library on [more…]

How to Synchronize Your Contacts and Calendars

You can synchronize your iPod or iPhone with contacts and calendars from other programs on your PC or Mac. Begin to synchronize by selecting the iPod or iPhone name in the iTunes Source pane. [more…]

Copying Media Files from iTunes

You can copy content freely from your iTunes window to other hard drives and computers, or you can copy the content folders from the iTunes Music folder to other hard drives and computers. [more…]

Changing How iTunes Files Are Stored in the Library

If you choose, you can change how iTunes files are stored in your library. The default method of organizing files in the iTunes library is to store content files in album and artist folders, naming the [more…]

How to Move Your iTunes Library to Another Hard Drive

You can move your iTunes library to another hard drive. When you do this, you can change the location of the library and consolidate the library at the same time. [more…]

Backing Up Your iTunes Library to DVD or CD

Apple provides a handy wizard that walks you through backing up your iTunes library, playlists, and iTunes Store purchases to CDs or DVDs. You can choose to back up the entire library, perform [more…]

Backing Up Your iTunes Library to a Different Hard Drive

You can back up your iTunes library to a secondary hard drive (so your music is stored somewhere else, in addition to the hard drive it was downloaded onto). To back up your entire library to another hard [more…]

How to Display iTunes Content in List View

You can display your iTunes content in List view. To display your content as a list, click the left View button (refer to the figure). You can then click the Browse button in the lower-right corner of [more…]

Considering When You Might Delete Content from iTunes

Deleting songs from iTunes might seem counterproductive when you’re trying to build your iTunes library, but sometimes you'll find a good reason to delete a song or two. For example, you may want to delete [more…]

How to Send an iTunes Store Gift Certificate

You can send an iTunes Store gift certificate to a friend or family member. It’s a great gift for that special person who loves music or videos. You can send a certificate as an e-mail message or print [more…]

How to Edit Song Information, and More, in iTunes

iTunes allows you to edit, or change, the information they've supplied from the iTunes Store for the movies, TV shows, music videos, audio books, and podcasts you download. And if you obtain your content [more…]

How to Create Playlists in iTunes

If you want to burn a CD in iTunes, you'll have to create a playlist, first. But playlists can also make it easier to play items you like without browsing the entire library to hunt and peck for them. [more…]

How to Create Podcast Playlists in iTunes

You can add podcast episodes to your playlists in iTunes. You can even create a playlist consisting entirely of episodes from different podcasts. [more…]

How to Create Video Playlists in iTunes

iTunes let's you create video playlists. You can drag individual videos and TV shows into a playlist and rearrange them to play in any sequence you want. [more…]

How to Delete Items from a Playlist in iTunes

If you want to change up your iTunes playlists, you can delete items from playlists while still keeping them in your library. When you delete an item from a playlist, the item is simply deleted from the [more…]

Using Smart Playlists in iTunes

iTunes has a feature called, smart playlists.Under Party Shuffle (near the top of the Playlists section of the Source pane), you can find these smart playlists, which are indicated by a gear icon. iTunes [more…]

How to Create an iMix in iTunes

The iTunes Store offers the iMix section for sharing your playlists with other iTunes users. Although you can submit a playlist of any items to be published in the iMix section of the store, only items [more…]

How to Set Burning Preferences for CDs in iTunes

Burning a CD is a simple process in iTunes, but you'll want to set the burning preferences for CDs in iTunes, just to make sure that you get the burn right on your first try. This is critical if you are [more…]

How to Burn a Disc in iTunes

Copying files to a disc is referred to as burning. You can burn music to a disc using iTunes. After you set the burning preferences in iTunes, you’re ready to start burning the disc. [more…]

How to Choose an iTunes Encoder

iTunes gives you a choice of encoders for importing your music. Your choice of encoders is perhaps the most important decision to make before starting to rip music CDs and building your library. [more…]

How to Customize the Encoder Settings in iTunes

You can customize the encoder settings in iTunes. You can change your encoder settings, quality settings, and other importing preferences before ripping an audio CD or converting a file in iTunes. [more…]

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