Apple MA448LLA, MA450LLA User Manual

iPod

Features Guide

Chapter 1 4 iPod Basics

iPod at a Glance

Using iPod Controls

Disabling iPod Controls

Using iPod Menus

Connecting and Disconnecting iPod

About the iPod Battery

Chapter 2 16 Music Features

About iTunes

Importing Music into Your Computer

Organizing Your Music

Loading Music and Podcasts onto iPod

Playing Music

Listening to Podcasts

Listening to Audiobooks

Listening to FM Radio

Chapter 3 31 Video Features

Purchasing Videos and Downloading Video Podcasts

Converting Your Own Videos to Work With iPod

Loading Videos onto iPod

Viewing and Listening to Videos

Chapter 4 38 Photo Features

Importing Photos

Viewing Photos

Chapter 5 45 Extra Features and Accessories

Using iPod as an External Disk

Using Extra Settings

Syncing Contacts, Calendars, and To-Do Lists

Storing and Reading Notes

Recording Voice Memos

Learning About iPod Accessories

Chapter 6 55 Tips and Troubleshooting

General Suggestions

Updating and Restoring iPod Software

Chapter 7 62 Safety and Cleaning

Important Safety Information

Important Handling Information

Chapter 8 65 Learning More, Service, and Support

Index 68

Contents

iPod Basics

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

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

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

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

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

View video on iPod or a TV, using the optional iPod AV Cable

View photos as a slideshow with music on iPod, or a TV using the optional iPod AV Cable

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

Store or back up files and other data, using iPod 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 at a Glance

Get to know the controls on iPod:

Hold switch

Menu button

Previous/Rewind button

Click Wheel

Headphones port

Center button

Next/Fast-forward button

Play/Pause button

Dock connector port

Using iPod Controls

The controls on iPod are easy to find and use. Press any button to turn on iPod. 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 controls.

To Do this

Turn on iPod

Turn off iPod

Turn on the backlight

Disable the iPod controls

(so nothing happens if you press them accidentally)

Reset iPod

(if iPod isn’t responding)

Choose a menu item

Go back to the previous menu

Go directly to the main menu

Browse for a song

Browse for a video

Play a song or video

Pause a song or video

Change the volume

Play all the songs in a list

Play all songs in random order

Skip to any point in a song or video

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

Start a song or video over

Play the previous song, video, 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 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. 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.

From the main menu, choose Videos.

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

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 or video. 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 in a playlist, and then press and hold the Center button until the song title flashes.

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

or unplug your headphones.

(’)

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Scrolling Quickly Through Long Lists

If you have more than 100 songs, videos, 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.

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 for songs, playlists, album titles, artist names, audio podcasts, and audiobooks. The search feature does not search videos, notes, calendar items, contacts, or lyrics.

Note:

Not all languages are supported.

To search iPod:

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 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 displays all music items containing the letter “b.” If you enter “ab,” iPod 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: artist ( ), album ( ), audiobook ( ), and podcast ( ).

To return to Search, press the Menu button.

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Turning off the Click Wheel Sound

When you scroll through menu items, you can hear a clicking sound through the iPod internal speaker to let you know the Click Wheel is working. If you like, you can turn the Click Wheel sound off.

To turn off the Click Wheel sound:

Choose Settings and set Clicker to Off.

To turn the Click Wheel sound back on, set Clicker to On.

Disabling iPod Controls

If you don’t want to turn iPod on or activate 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 Menus

When you turn on iPod, 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 status.

Menu titleLock icon

Play status

Menu items

Battery status

Display item Function

Play status

Lock icon

Menu title Displays the title of the current menu.

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

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

The Play (“) icon appears when a song is playing. The Pause (1) icon appears when a song is paused.

The Lock icon appears when the Hold switch (on top of iPod) is set to HOLD. This indicates that the iPod controls are disabled.

If the battery is charging, the icon is animated.

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

Adding or Removing Items From the Main Menu

You might want to add often-used items to the iPod 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:

Choose Settings > Main Menu.

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 Screen Brightness

You can adjust the brightness of your iPod screen by moving a slider.

m Choose Settings > Brightness, and then use the Click Wheel to move the slider. Moving

it to the left dims the screen; moving it to the right increases the screen brightness.

You can also set the brightness during a slideshow or video by pressing the Center button to bring up and dismiss the brightness slider.

Setting the Language

iPod can be set to use different languages.

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

Connecting and Disconnecting iPod

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

Connecting iPod

To connect iPod 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.

If you have an iPod 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 in the Dock.

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

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

If you connect iPod 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 will be erased and replaced with the songs and other audio files on the computer iPod is connected to. For more information about loading music to iPod and using iPod with more than one computer, see Chapter 2, “Music Features,” on page 16.

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

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Disconnecting iPod

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

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

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

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

Important: If you see this message, you

must eject iPod before disconnecting it.

If you set iPod to update songs manually (see “Managing iPod Manually” on page 22) or enable iPod for disk use (see “Using iPod as an External Disk” on page 45), you must always eject iPod before disconnecting it.

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To eject iPod:

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

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

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

To disconnect iPod:

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

is in the Dock, simply remove it.

About the iPod Battery

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

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

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Charging the iPod Battery

You can charge the iPod battery in two ways:

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

To charge the battery using your computer:

m Connect iPod 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 while in sleep mode).

If the battery icon on the iPod 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 might not be connected to a high-power USB port. Try another USB port on your computer.

Important: If iPod is very low on power, it might need to charge for up to 30 minutes

before the display turns on.

If you want to charge iPod 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.

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3 Plug the power adapter into a working electrical outlet.

AC plug adapter (The plug on your Power Adapter may look different.)

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 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 only use FireWire only for charging the battery and not for loading songs and other files onto iPod.

Understanding Battery States

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

Battery less than 20% charged

Battery about halfway charged

Battery fully charged

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

You use iPod by importing songs, audiobooks, videos, and podcasts (radio-style audio shows) into your computer and then loading them onto iPod. 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, videos, and podcasts onto iPod. Â Listening to music or other audio on the go.

About iTunes

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

This guide explains how to use iTunes to download songs and other audio and video to your computer, create personal compilations of your favorite songs (called playlists), load them onto iPod, and adjust iPod 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, you first need to get that music into iTunes on your computer.

There are three ways of getting music and other audio into iTunes:

Â Purchase music, audiobooks, and videos, 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.

Purchasing Songs and Downloading Podcasts Using the iTunes Store

If you have an Internet connection, you can easily purchase and download songs, albums, audiobooks, and videos 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.

Note: You don’t need an iTunes Store account to download or subscribe to podcasts.

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.

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To find songs, audiobooks, videos, 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 on the top-left side of the store, click one of the albums or songs in the center or right side of the store, or click the Browse button in the top-right corner of the window.

Â To browse for podcasts, click the Podcasts link on the left side of the main page in the

iTunes Store.

Â To browse for videos, click the Videos link on the left side of the main page in the

iTunes Store.

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 names, press the Song 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 at the top-left

corner of the store.

To buy a song, album, audiobook, or video:

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. (If your network connection is slower than 128 kbps, choose iTunes > Preferences, and in the Store pane, select the “Load complete preview before playing” checkbox.)

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

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

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.

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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.

With song information entered, you can browse for songs in iTunes or on iPod by title, artist, album, and more.

2 Click to remove the checkmark next to any song you don’t want to import from

the CD.

3 Click the Import CD button. The display area at the top of the iTunes window shows

how much time it will take to import each song.

By default, iTunes plays songs as they are imported. If you’re importing a lot of songs, you might want to stop the songs from playing to improve performance.

4 To eject the CD, click the Eject (C) button.

5 Repeat these steps for any other CDs with songs you want to import.

Entering Song Names and Other Details

To enter CD song names and other information manually:

1 Select the first song on the CD and choose File > Get Info.

2 Click Info.

3 Enter the song information.

4 Click Next to enter information for the next song.

Adding Lyrics

You can type or paste song lyrics in plain text format into iTunes so that you can view the song lyrics on iPod while the song is playing.

To type or paste lyrics into iTunes:

1 Select a song and choose File > Get Info.

2 Click Lyrics.

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3 Enter song lyrics in the text box.

4 Click OK.

For more information, see “Viewing Lyrics on iPod” on page 29.

Adding Songs Already on Your Computer to the iTunes Library

If you have songs on your computer encoded in file formats that iTunes supports, you can easily add the songs to iTunes.

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 nonprotected WMA files to AAC or MP3 format. 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.

Organizing Your Music

Using iTunes, you can organize songs and other items into lists, called playlists. You can organize them in any way you want. For example, you can make playlists with songs to listen to while exercising, or playlists with songs for a particular mood.

You can also make Smart Playlists that update automatically based on rules you define. When you add songs to iTunes that fit the rules, they automatically get added to the Smart Playlist.

You can make as many playlists as you like using any of the songs in your computer’s music library. Putting a song in a playlist doesn’t remove it from the library.

To make a playlist in iTunes:

1 Click the Add (+) button.

2 Type a name for the playlist.

3 Click Music in the Library list, and then drag a song or other item to the playlist.

To select multiple songs, hold down the Shift key or the Command (x) key on a Mac, or the Shift key or the Control key on a Windows PC, as you click each song.

To make a Smart Playlist:

m Choose File > New Smart Playlist and defines the rules for your playlist.

Note: You can also make playlists on iPod, called On-The-Go Playlists, when iPod isn’t connected to your computer. See “Making On-The-Go Playlists on iPod” on page 25.

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Loading Music and Podcasts onto iPod

After your music is imported and organized in iTunes, you can easily load it onto iPod.

To set how music is loaded from your computer onto iPod, you connect iPod to your computer, and then use iTunes preferences to choose iPod settings.

You can set iTunes to load music onto iPod in three ways:

Â Sync all songs and playlists: When you connect iPod, it is automatically updated to

match the songs and other items in the iTunes library. Any other songs on iPod are deleted.

Â Sync selected playlists: When you connect iPod, it is automatically updated to match

the songs in playlists you select in iTunes.

Â Manually music on iPod: When you connect iPod, you can drag songs and playlists

individually to iPod, and delete songs and playlists individually from iPod. Using this option, you can load songs from more than one computer without erasing songs from iPod. When you manage music yourself, you must always eject iPod from iTunes before you can disconnect it.

Syncing Music Automatically

By default, iPod is set to sync all songs and playlists when you connect it to your computer. This is the simplest way to load music onto iPod. You just connect iPod to your computer, let it add songs, audiobooks, videos, and other items automatically, and then disconnect it and go. If you added any songs to iTunes since the last time you connected iPod, they are loaded onto iPod. If you deleted songs from iTunes, they are deleted from iPod.

To load music onto iPod:

m Simply connect iPod to your computer. If iPod is set to sync automatically, the update

begins.

Important: The first time you connect iPod to a computer, a message asks if you want

to sync songs automatically. If you accept, all songs, audiobooks, and videos are erased from iPod and replaced with the songs and other items from that computer. If you don’t accept, you can still load songs onto iPod manually without erasing any of the songs already on iPod.

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While music is being loaded from your computer onto iPod, the iTunes status window shows progress, and the iPod icon in the Source pane flashes red.

When the update is done, a message in iTunes says “iPod update is complete.”

If you set iTunes to manage music manually, you can reset it later to sync automatically.

To reset iTunes to sync all music automatically on iPod:

1 In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane and click the Music tab.

2 Select “Sync music” and then choose “All songs and playlists.”

3 Click Apply.

The update begins automatically.

Note: If “Only sync checked items” is selected in the Summary pane, iTunes syncs only items that are checked in your Music and other libraries.

Syncing Music From Selected Playlists onto iPod

Setting iTunes to sync selected playlists to iPod is useful if the music in your iTunes library doesn’t all fit on iPod. Only the music in the playlists you select is synced to iPod.

To set iTunes to sync music from selected playlists onto iPod:

1 In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane and click the Music tab.

2 Select “Sync music” and then choose “Selected playlists.”

3 Select the playlists you want.

4 To include music videos and display album artwork, select those options.

5 Click Apply.

Note: If “Only sync checked items” is selected in the Summary pane, iTunes syncs only items that are checked in your Music and other libraries.

Managing iPod Manually

Setting iTunes to let you manage iPod manually gives you the most flexibility for managing music and video on iPod. You can add and remove individual songs (including music videos) and videos (movies and TV shows). Also, you can load music and videos from multiple computers to iPod without erasing items already on iPod.

Note: Setting iPod to manually manage music and video turns off the automatic sync options in the Music, Movies, and TV Shows panes. You cannot manually manage one and automatically sync another at the same time.

To set iTunes to let you manage music and video on iPod manually:

1 In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane and click the Summary tab.

2 In the Options section, select “Manually manage music and video.”

3 Click Apply.

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