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Fundamentals and iPod Buying Guide

Basic and iPod Buying Guide

So you are looking to buy an iPod? If Please take the time to read this short article on the best to help you make the most of your new iPod, and at least help avoid mistakes and misunderstandings. This article was written about my personal experience with iPods.

1. What is an iPod?

An iPod is a MP4 player, no MP3 player. Basically, MP4 format is a proprietary format is only recognized by Apple products such as iPods and QuickTime ™. For music to play on an iPod, it must be MP4 format. Apple site to download music, iTunes ™, offers music only in MP4 format. The iTunes ™ that comes with a convert MP3 files to iPod format MP4, so you can play on your iPod. An iPod can not play MP3, or Windows Media Player to play MP4 files. Both the Nano and iPod Video store and display pictures, but a video iPod is required to view video files.

2. What is iTunes?

Apple ® hosts the music download site more call big iTunes ™. In March 2006, over 1 billion files were downloaded for use on iPods. It's really incredible. This site offers music files for 99 cents each, and may not download an entire album, but you can only select the music files you want and download it to your computer. The software ™ iTunes on your computer is the vehicle through which the files are loaded into the iPod. Simply place your iPod in its docking station (which is attached via the USB port of your computer) iTunes ™ and start your iPod is automatically updated with new music, playlists, podcasts. I tried other music download sites and not have found none that I like, as well as iTunes ™, even if they can offer music cheaper than iTunes ™. A basic search to locate other sites to download music.

There are a variety of other Available on iTunes ™ files called podcasts. These are the audio files or video including news, informative, hilarious and many other programs. The vast majority of podcasts are free and others not.

3. What you get

iPods come with following:

iPod Battery

Headphones (called atria)

A toolkit for generic headphones

A docking station (to transfer files and charge the iPod)

iTunes ™ software CD

Instruction Manual

That all.

4. What you need

Each user has an iPod case, and we recommend a screen protector.

Both the iPod nano and fifth generation (5G) Video iPod susceptible to scratches, and black units seem to show worse than the white stripes. That is true of both the housing and screen iPod. There is nothing worse than having your iPod with scratches stained, especially in what is easily preventable through a case and screen protector. Having unprotected iPod floating around in her purse or hand in your pocket that your iPod will quite quickly accumulation of scratches on both the housing and the screen. Be careful! It is not really a bug, but is the way it is.

5. Using the iPod in your car

Most people quickly realize that would be very happy to play their iPod music through your car stereo. They do not have to mess with CDs or cassettes. How many CDs do you need to take your entire music library with you on the car? You can take all in the palm of your hand with an iPod. So how can play music through your stereo car? There are several options.

First, there are cables for most car audio equipment that connects to the iPod and the other end of the cable plugs a port in the back of the car. Kidnapping the stereo is usually required to perform this task. In addition, the cable used to connect your iPod is exposed. It is however, the sound! Some car stereos have a line input on the front. In this case, all you need do is use an adapter cable to the headphone jack iPod on the stereo recording. In both cases, the iPod works on its internal battery when a car charger is also used as well.

Secondly, (And by far the most popular) is to use an FM transmitter to transmit a signal from your iPod Radio FM and play as if it were a radio station. There are a variety of transmitters FM from different manufacturers. We recommend using a drive that is a docking station and plug in the iPod dock. The plug-in units consume battery power iPod and seem unable to produce a weak signal for poor sound quality. A host unit (like the Griffin RoadTrip ™) keeps your iPod in place, cargo iPod and produces a strong signal. The RoadTrip ™ also features a removable FM module lets you connect to your computer. You can listen to FM radio through computer without installing the software.

6. Using the iPod at home

iPod can easily play on your stereo. You can simply use an adapter cable that plugs into the headphone jack of the iPod and the stereo input on your stereo. In this configuration, the iPod is running on the battery if the iPod is connected to a charger.

At home, the iPod is the preferred method, and a variety of connectivity solutions available. The iPod dock in a base that charges the iPod, and output jack on the bottom of the iPod is connected to your stereo via a cable. Some units offer remote controls for the iPod and other not, but Often these remote controls are small and limited in scope and coverage of the receipt. We find that a little TV or stereo programmable control units remote can be programmed to work with some iPod docking systems, while others work partially or not at all. Worth a try if you have a remote control programmable.

Some homes have video output for use with the 5G video iPod, which lets you watch videos or photos stored on iPod on a TV. We found that the image quality is poor in large-screen televisions, but rather on a small screen. Using a launch pad with S-video gives a much higher than units with an RCA connector. From now on, the iPod is not compatible with high definition.

There are speaker systems that contain their own amplifier and operate as a unit with an iPod. These are not all equal. Our tests revealed that the high price is not always equal high quality. Found $ 150 systems in We believe a good units significantly higher than $ 400. The best thing is to listen to different systems before making your selection, or purchase online, follow the recommendations from the seller if the system was tested and can provide recommendations based on test results.

There are radio clock (like iHome ™) allow you to sleep listening to your iPod and wake up too. We tested the iHome ™ and other IHome ™ and found our unit of your choice.

7. Loading your Video iPod Video 5G

When the video iPod came out, I gave him a high rank in the "Dumb-O-Meter." Who wants to watch a movie on a screen 2.5 inches? However, after using one, I returned to my first opinion. I have now the iPod of your choice. Unfortunately, iTunes ™ MP4 and other sites discharge, in general, have little way of providing legal movies are formatted to play on an iPod. ITunes ™ has some movies, music videos and television programs, but not much else.

An easy solution is to convert your own DVDs into a format that iPod can play. This can be achieved through a software called DVD to iPod Converter, like Cucusoft, Lenogo and others. It's a simple process. Put a DVD on your computer, run the conversion program to convert the movie and let to iPod format. Then drag the converted file in its list of videos on iTunes ™. The next time you connect your iPod to your computer, charge your iPod. Some conversion programs also convert AVI, MPEG, MPG, WMV and other video formats for computer use on an iPod. This may allow you to convert your videos home and watch them on your iPod. iPod movies are ideal for entertaining children in the way for the business traveler stuck in an airport or airline travel along.

DVD converters, we recommend that are available here.

8. iPod and your PC

Music files from iPod are stored in two places: on your PC in the program iTunes ™ and iPod. If your computer crashes and you lose the hard disk or change the format, you lose all the content in your iTunes folder ™, including all the tracks you purchased from iTunes ™. Moreover, iTunes ™ does not provide means to download new songs you bought for free. You will to purchase it again. Nor does the iPod come with a way to upload files to a computer. Fortunately, there are software programs that allow you to copy the contents of your iPod to a PC or an iPod to another. These programs are called "iPod to PC" or similar. If your computer crashes, you start to not have this program to restore music files back into the team.

IPod to PC programs we recommend are available here.

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