Apple iPod nano 2nd generation Owner's Manual

iPod nano

Features Guide

Chapter 1 4 iPod nano Basics

iPod nano at a Glance

Using iPod nano Controls

Disabling iPod nano Controls

Using iPod nano Menus

Connecting and Disconnecting iPod nano

Chapter 2 15 Music Features

About iTunes

Importing Music into Your Computer

Organizing Your Music

Loading Music and Podcasts onto iPod nano

Playing Music

Listening to Podcasts

Listening to Audiobooks

Listening to FM Radio

Chapter 3 31 Photo Features

Importing Photos

Viewing Photos

Chapter 4 36 Extra Features and Accessories

Using iPod nano as an External Disk

Using Extra Settings

Syncing Contacts, Calendars, and To-Do Lists

Storing and Reading Notes

Recording Voice Memos

Learning About iPod nano Accessories

Chapter 5 45 Tips and Troubleshooting

General Suggestions

Updating and Restoring iPod nano Software

Chapter 6 51 Safety and Cleaning

Important Safety Information

Important Handling Information

Chapter 7 54 Learning More, Service, and Support

Index 57

Contents

iPod nano Basics

Congratulations on purchasing iPod nano. Read this section to learn about the features of iPod nano, how to use its controls, and more.

To use iPod nano, you put music, photos, and other files on your computer and then load them onto iPod nano.

iPod nano is a music player and much more. Use iPod nano to:

Sync songs and digital photos for listening and viewing on the go

Listen to podcasts, downloadable radio-style shows delivered over the Internet

View photos as a slideshow with music

Listen to audiobooks purchased from the iTunes Store or audible.com

Store or back up files and other data, using iPod nano as an external disk

Sync contact, calendar, and to-do list information from your computer

Play games, store text notes, set an alarm, and more

iPod nano at a Glance

Get to know the controls on iPod nano:

Hold switch

Menu button

Previous/Rewind button

Click Wheel

Dock connector port

Center button

Next/Fast-forward button

Play/Pause button

Serial number (on back)

Headphones port

Using iPod nano Controls

The controls on iPod nano are easy to find and use. Press any button to turn on iPod nano. The main menu appears.

Use the Click Wheel and Center button to navigate through onscreen menus, play songs, change settings, and view information. Move your thumb lightly around the Click Wheel to select a menu item. To choose the item, press the Center button. To go back to the previous menu, press Menu on the Click Wheel.

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Here’s what else you can do with iPod nano controls.

To Do this

Turn on iPod nano

Turn off iPod nano

Turn on the backlight

Disable the iPod nano controls

(so nothing happens if you press them accidentally)

Reset iPod nano

(if iPod nano isn’t responding)

Choose a menu item

Go back to the previous menu

Go back to the main menu

Browse for a song

Play a song

Pause a song

Change the volume

Play all the songs in a list

Play all songs in random order

Skip to any point in a song

Skip to the next song or chapter in an audiobook or podcast

Start a song over

Play the previous song or chapter in an audiobook or podcast

Fast-forward or rewind a song

Add a song to the On-The-Go playlist

Find the iPod nano serial number

Press any button.

Press and hold Play/Pause

Press any button or use the Click Wheel.

Slide the Hold switch to HOLD (an orange bar appears).

Slide the Hold switch to HOLD and back again. Then press the Menu and Center buttons at the same time for about 6 seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

Scroll to the item and press the Center button.

Press Menu.

Press and hold Menu.

From the main menu, choose Music.

Select the song and press the Center or Play/Pause iPod nano has to be ejected from your computer to play songs.

Press Play/Pause

From the Now Playing screen, use the Click Wheel.

Select the list title (an album title or the title of a playlist, for example) and press Play/Pause

From the main menu, choose Shuffle Songs.

From the Now Playing screen, press the Center button to show the scrubber bar, and then scroll to any point in the song. Press the Center button to resume playing from that point.

Press Next/Fast-forward (‘).

Press Previous/Rewind (]).

Press Previous/Rewind (]) twice.

Press and hold Next/Fast-forward (‘) or Previous/Rewind (]).

Select a song, and then press and hold the Center button until the song title flashes.

From the main menu, choose Settings > About, or look at the back of iPod nano.

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or unplug your headphones.

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button.

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Scrolling Quickly Through Long Lists

If you have a large number of songs or other items, you can scroll quickly through a long list by moving your thumb quickly on the Click Wheel.

Note:

Not all languages are supported.

To scroll quickly:

Move your thumb quickly on the Click Wheel, to display a letter of the alphabet on the screen.

Without lifting your thumb, use the Click Wheel to navigate the alphabet until you find the first letter of the item you’re looking for.

This takes you to the first item in the list beginning with that letter. Items beginning with a symbol or number appear before the letter “A.”

Lift your thumb momentarily (or stop moving your thumb for about one second) to return to normal scrolling.

Use the Click Wheel to finish navigating to the item you want.

Searching Music

You can search iPod nano for songs, playlists, album titles, artist names, podcasts, and audiobooks. The search feature doesn’t search notes, calendar items, contacts, or lyrics.

To search iPod nano:

From the Music menu, choose Search.

Enter a search string by using the Click Wheel to navigate the alphabet and pressing the Center button to enter each character.

iPod nano starts searching as soon as you enter the first character, displaying the results on the search screen. For example, if you enter “b,” then iPod nano displays all music items containing the letter “b.” If you enter “ab,” iPod nano displays all items containing that sequence of letters.

To enter a space, press the Next/Fast-forward button.

To delete the previous character, click the back arrow or press the Previous/Rewind button.

Click DONE to display the found list, which you can now navigate.

Songs in the found list appear without an icon. Other items are preceded by an icon to show the type of item: album ( ), artist ( ), audiobook ( ), and podcast ( ).

To return to Search, press the Menu button.

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Setting the Click Wheel Sound

When you scroll through menu items, you can hear a clicking sound through the iPod nano internal speaker to let you know the Click Wheel is working. You can set the Click Wheel sound to play through the headphones instead, or you can turn it off.

To set how iPod nano plays the Click Wheel sound:

Choose Settings from the iPod nano main menu, and then follow the instructions below:

Set Clicker to To

Headphones

Off

Speaker

Both

Set the Click Wheel sound to play through the headphones

Turn off the Click Wheel sound

Set the Click Wheel sound to play through the iPod nano internal speaker

Set the Click Wheel sound to play through both the iPod nano internal speaker and the headphones

Disabling iPod nano Controls

If you’re carrying iPod nano in your pocket and you don’t want to turn it on or activate the controls accidentally, you can make them inactive using the Hold switch.

Slide the Hold switch to HOLD (so you can see the orange bar).

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Using iPod nano Menus

When you turn on iPod nano, you see the main menu. Choose menu items to perform functions and go to other menus. Icons along the top of the screen show iPod nano status.

Menu titleLock icon

Play status

Menu items

Battery status

The following table describes the items in the iPod nano main menu.

Display item Function

Play status The Play (

appears if a song is paused.

Lock icon The Lock icon appears when the Hold switch (on top of iPod nano)

is set to HOLD. This indicates that the iPod nano controls are disabled.

Menu title Displays the title of the current menu.

Battery status The Battery icon shows the approximate remaining battery charge.

If the battery is charging, the icon is animated.

Menu items Use the Click Wheel to scroll through menu items. Press the Center

button to choose an item. An arrow next to a menu item indicates that choosing it leads to another menu.

) icon appears if a song is playing. The Pause (1) icon

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Adding or Removing Items from the Main Menu

You might want to add often-used items to the iPod nano main menu. For example, you can add a “Songs” item to the main menu, so you don’t have to choose Music before you choose Songs.

To add or remove items from the main menu:

1 Choose Settings > Main Menu.

2 For each item you want to appear in the main menu, turn the “Off” option to “On.”

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Setting the Backlight Timer

You can set the backlight to turn on and illuminate the screen for a certain amount of time when you press a button or use the Click Wheel. The default is 10 seconds.

m Choose Settings > Backlight Timer, and then choose the time you want.

Even if you don’t set the backlight timer, you can turn on the backlight at any time by pressing any button or using the Click Wheel. After a few seconds, the backlight turns off.

Setting the Language

iPod nano can be set to use different languages.

m Choose Settings > Language, and then choose a language from the list.

Connecting and Disconnecting iPod nano

You connect iPod nano to your computer to sync music, photos, and files, and to charge the battery. Disconnect iPod nano when you’re done.

Connecting iPod nano

To connect iPod nano to your computer:

m Plug the included iPod Dock Connector to USB 2.0 Cable into a high-power USB port

on your computer (a USB 2.0 port is recommended), and then connect the other end to iPod nano.

If you have an iPod nano Dock, you can connect the cable to a high-power USB port on your computer, connect the other end to the Dock, and then put iPod nano in the Dock.

Note: The USB port on your keyboard doesn’t provide enough power. You must connect iPod nano to a USB port on your computer.

By default, iTunes syncs songs on iPod nano automatically when you connect it to your computer. When iTunes is finished, you can disconnect iPod nano.

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If you connect iPod nano to a different computer and it is set to sync music automatically, iTunes prompts you before loading any music. If you click Yes, the songs and other audio files already on iPod nano will be erased and replaced with the songs and other audio files on the computer iPod nano is connected to. For more information about loading music onto iPod nano and using iPod nano with more than one computer, see Chapter 2, “Music Features,” on page 15.

Note: You can load songs while your battery is charging.

Disconnecting iPod nano

It’s important not to disconnect iPod nano from your computer while music is being loaded. You can easily see if it’s OK to disconnect iPod nano by looking at the iPod nano screen.

Important: Don’t disconnect iPod nano if you see the “Do not disconnect” message.

You could damage files on iPod nano. If you see this message, you must eject iPod nano before disconnecting it.

If you see the main menu or a large battery icon, you can disconnect iPod nano.

Important: If you see this

message, you must eject iPod nano before disconnecting it.

If you set iPod nano to update songs manually (see “Managing iPod nano Manually” on page 22) or enable iPod nano for disk use (see “Using iPod nano as an External Disk” on page 36), you must always eject iPod nano before disconnecting it.

To eject iPod nano:

m Click the Eject (C) button next to iPod nano in the list of devices in the iTunes Source

pane.

If you’re using a Mac, you can eject iPod nano by dragging the iPod nano icon on the desktop to the Trash.

If you’re using a Windows PC, you can eject iPod nano by clicking the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Windows system tray and selecting iPod nano.

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To disconnect iPod nano:

1 Unplug the headphones if they’re attached.

2 Squeeze both sides of the Dock connector and disconnect the cable from iPod nano. If

iPod nano is in the Dock, simply remove it.

About the iPod nano Battery

iPod nano has an internal, non-user-replaceable battery. For best results, the first time you use iPod nano, let it charge for about three hours or until the battery icon in the top-right corner of the iPod nano display shows that the battery is fully charged. If iPod nano isn’t used for a while, the battery might need to be charged.

The iPod nano battery is 80-percent charged in about two hours and fully charged in about three hours. If you charge iPod nano while loading files, playing music, or viewing a slideshow, it might take longer.

Charging the iPod nano Battery

You can charge the iPod nano battery in two ways:

Â Connect iPod nano to your computer. Â Use the iPod USB Power Adapter, available separately.

To charge the battery using your computer:

m Connect iPod nano to a high-power USB port on your computer. The computer must

be turned on and not in sleep mode (some models of Macintosh can charge iPod nano while in sleep mode).

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If the battery icon on the iPod nano screen shows a lightning bolt, the battery is charging. If it shows a plug, the battery is fully charged.

If you don’t see the lightning bolt or the plug, iPod nano might not be connected to a high-power USB port. Try another USB port on your computer.

If you want to charge iPod nano when you’re away from your computer, you can purchase the iPod USB Power Adapter.

To charge the battery using the iPod USB Power Adapter:

1 Connect the AC plug adapter to the power adapter (they might already be connected).

2 Connect the iPod Dock Connector to USB 2.0 Cable to the power adapter, and plug the

other end of the cable into iPod nano.

3 Plug the power adapter into a working electrical outlet.

AC plug adapter

iPod Dock Connector to USB 2.0 Cable

iPod USB Power Adapter

WARNING: Make sure the power adapter is fully assembled before plugging it into an

electrical outlet.

Note: If you have an optional iPod Dock Connector to FireWire cable, you can also connect iPod nano to a FireWire port on your computer or to an iPod Power Adapter (with a FireWire port) that’s plugged into an electrical outlet. You can use FireWire only for charging the battery and not for loading songs and other files onto iPod nano.

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Understanding Battery States

When iPod nano is not connected to a power source, a battery icon in the top-right corner of the iPod nano screen shows approximately how much charge is left.

Battery less than 20% charged

Battery about halfway charged

Battery fully charged

If iPod nano is connected to a power source, the battery icon changes to show that the battery is charging or fully charged.

Battery charging (lightning bolt)

Battery fully charged (plug)

You can disconnect and use iPod nano before it is fully charged.

Note: Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and might eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. For more information, go to www.apple.com/batteries.

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2 Music Features

With iPod nano, you can take your music collection with you wherever you go. Read this section to learn about loading music and listening to iPod nano.

You use iPod nano by importing songs, audiobooks, and podcasts (radio-style audio shows) into your computer and then loading them onto iPod nano. Read on to learn more about the steps in this process, including:

Â 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

Â Organizing your music and other audio into playlists, if you want Â Loading playlists, songs, audiobooks, and podcasts onto iPod nano Â Listening to music or other audio on the go

About iTunes

iTunes is the software application you use with iPod nano. iTunes can sync music, audiobooks, podcasts, and more with iPod nano. When you connect iPod nano to your computer, iTunes opens automatically.

This guide explains how to use iTunes to download songs and other audio to your computer, create personal compilations of your favorite songs (called playlists), load them onto iPod nano, and adjust iPod nano settings.

iTunes also has many other features. You can make your own CDs that play in standard CD players (if your computer has a CD-recordable 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.

Importing Music into Your Computer

To listen to music on iPod nano, you first need to get that music into iTunes on your computer.

There are three ways to get music and other audio into iTunes:

Â Buy music and audiobooks or download podcasts online from the iTunes Store. Â Import music from audio CDs. Â Add music and other audio that’s already on your computer to the iTunes library.

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Purchasing Songs and Downloading Podcasts Using the iTunes Store

If you have an Internet connection, you can easily purchase and download songs, albums, and audiobooks online using the iTunes Store. You can also subscribe to and download podcasts, radio-style audio shows.

To purchase music online using the iTunes Store, you set up an Apple account in iTunes, find the songs you want, and then buy them. If you already have an Apple account, or if you have an America Online (AOL) account (available in some countries only), you can use that account to sign in to the iTunes Store and buy songs.

To sign in to the iTunes Store:

m Open iTunes and then:

Â If you already have an iTunes account, choose Store > Sign In. Â If you don’t already have an iTunes account, choose Store > Create Account and follow

the onscreen instructions to set up an Apple account or enter your existing Apple account or AOL account information.

To find songs, audiobooks, and podcasts:

You can browse or search the iTunes Store to find the album, song, or artist you’re looking for. Open iTunes and click iTunes Store in the Source pane.

Â To browse the iTunes Store, choose a music genre from the Choose Genre pop-up

menu, click one of the displayed releases or songs, or click Browse in the main iTunes Store window.

Â To browse for podcasts, click the Podcasts link in the main iTunes Store window. Â To search the iTunes Store, type the name of an album, song, artist, or composer in the

search field.

Â To narrow your search, type something in the search field, press Return or Enter on

your keyboard, and then press buttons in the Search Bar. For example, to narrow your search to song titles and albums, press the Music button.

Â To search for a combination of items, click Power Search in the iTunes Store window. Â To return to the main page of the iTunes Store, click the Home button in the top-left

corner of the main iTunes Store window.

To buy a song, album, or audiobook:

1 Click iTunes Store in the Source pane, and then find the item you want to buy.

You can double-click a song or other item to listen to a portion of it and make sure it’s what you want.

2 Click Buy Song, Buy Album, or Buy Book.

The item is downloaded to your computer and charged to the credit card listed in your Apple or AOL account.

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To download or subscribe to a podcast:

1 Click iTunes Store in the Source pane.

2 Click the Podcasts link on the left side of the main page in the iTunes Store.

3 Browse for the podcast you want to download.

Â To download a single podcast episode, click the Get Episode button next to the

episode.

Â To subscribe to a podcast, click the Subscribe button next to the podcast graphic.

iTunes downloads the most recent episode. As new episodes become available, they are automatically downloaded to iTunes when you connect to the Internet.

For more information, see “Loading Podcasts onto iPod nano” on page 23 and “Listening to Podcasts” on page 29.

Adding Songs Already on Your Computer to the iTunes Library

If you have digital music files, such as MP3s, already on your computer, you can easily add them to your iTunes library.

To add songs on your computer to the iTunes library:

m Drag the folder or disk containing the audio files to Library in the iTunes Source pane

(or choose File > Add to Library and select the folder or disk). If iTunes supports the song file format, the songs are automatically added to the iTunes library.

You can also drag individual song files to iTunes.

Note: Using iTunes for Windows, you can convert unprotected digital music files created with Windows Media Player to an iTunes-compatible file, such as AAC or MP3. This can be useful if you have a library of music encoded in WMA format. For more information, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.

Importing Music From Your Audio CDs Into iTunes

Follow these instructions to get music from your CDs into iTunes.

To import music from an audio CD into iTunes:

1 Insert a CD into your computer and open iTunes.

If you have an Internet connection, iTunes gets the names of the songs on the CD from the Internet (if available) and lists them in the window.

If you don’t have an Internet connection, you can import your CDs and, later, when you’re connected to the Internet, choose Advanced > Get CD Track Names. iTunes will bring in the track names for the imported CDs.

If the CD track names aren’t available online, you can enter the names of the songs manually. For more information, see “Entering Song Names and Other Details” on page 19.

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