Apple MC293LL/A User Manual

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You use iTunes on your computer to set up iPod classic to play your 
music, video, and other media content.
You use iPod classic by importing songs, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, music videos, and 
podcasts into your computer and then syncing them with iPod classic. Read on to learn more 
about the steps in this process, including:
 
Getting music from your CD collection, hard disk, or the iTunes Store (part of iTunes and 
available in some countries only) into the iTunes application on your computer
 
Organizing your music and other audio into playlists, if you want
 
Syncing playlists, songs, audiobooks, videos, and podcasts with iPod classic
About iTunes
iTunes is the free software application you use to set up, organize, and manage your content 
on iPod classic. iTunes can sync music, audiobooks, podcasts, and more with iPod classic. 
If you don’t already have iTunes installed on your computer, you can download it at 
. iPod classic requires iTunes 10.7 or later.
You can use iTunes to import music from CDs and the Internet, buy songs and other audio and 
video from the iTunes Store, create personal compilations of your favorite songs (called playlists), 
and sync your playlists with iPod classic.
iTunes also has a feature called Genius, which creates playlists and mixes of songs from your 
iTunes library that go great together. You can sync Genius playlists that you create in iTunes to 
iPod classic, and you can create Genius playlists and listen to Genius Mixes on iPod classic. To use 
Genius, you need an iTunes Store account.
iTunes has many other features. You can burn your own CDs that play in standard CD players  
(if your computer has a recordable CD drive); listen to streaming Internet radio; watch videos and 
TV shows; rate songs according to preference; and much more.
For information about using these iTunes features, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.
If you already have iTunes 10.7 or later installed on your computer and you’ve set up your iTunes 
library, you can skip ahead to 
 on page 18.
Setting Up iPod classic