| Introduction | p. xi |
| Getting to Know iTunes | |
| In the Beginning | p. 3 |
| The (Extremely Abridged) History of Sound and the Mac | p. 4 |
| Compression and MP3 | p. 5 |
| iTunes at Last | p. 8 |
| A Brief Look at Some of What iTunes Does | p. 9 |
| Before Using iTunes | p. 11 |
| Mandatory Stuff | p. 11 |
| A Mac | p. 12 |
| The iTunes program | p. 12 |
| Plenty of disk space | p. 13 |
| Optional Stuff | p. 15 |
| CD-R or CD-RW drive | p. 15 |
| Blank discs ("blank media") | p. 17 |
| Cables (external CD-R and CD-RW drives only) | p. 18 |
| Internet connection | p. 18 |
| Speakers | p. 19 |
| Portable MP3 player | p. 19 |
| The iTunes Guided Tour | p. 21 |
| Overview and Tour | p. 22 |
| Status display | p. 23 |
| Search field | p. 24 |
| Browse button | p. 25 |
| Song/Radio Detail list | p. 27 |
| Window resizer | p. 28 |
| Eject Disk button | p. 28 |
| Visual Effects button | p. 28 |
| Equalizer button | p. 31 |
| Repeat button | p. 31 |
| Shuffle button | p. 32 |
| New Playlist button | p. 32 |
| Source list | p. 32 |
| Volume control | p. 32 |
| Back button | p. 32 |
| Play button | p. 33 |
| Forward button | p. 33 |
| Close button | p. 34 |
| Zoom button | p. 34 |
| Minimize button | p. 34 |
| Good Help Is Hard to Find | p. 36 |
| Using iTunes Help | p. 36 |
| Tool tips | p. 40 |
| Working with iTunes | |
| Ripping Songs | p. 43 |
| Getting Ready to Rip | p. 45 |
| A brief Internet interlude | p. 46 |
| The Actual Act of Ripping | p. 47 |
| Let it rip! | p. 48 |
| Beyond Basic Ripping | p. 50 |
| Where the MP3 files are | p. 50 |
| Encoding to file formats other than MP3 | p. 51 |
| Quality vs. file size | p. 51 |
| Editing song information | p. 51 |
| All About the Library and Playlists | p. 53 |
| No Card Required! | p. 54 |
| Adding and deleting songs | p. 55 |
| The obvious way | p. 55 |
| The other way | p. 56 |
| Editing song information | p. 59 |
| Read this before you edit multiple songs | p. 61 |
| Editing outside the box | p. 61 |
| Browsing the Library | p. 62 |
| Playing with Playlists | p. 65 |
| Creating and deleting playlists | p. 66 |
| Changing your playlists | p. 66 |
| Smarter Playlists | p. 71 |
| Using Smart Playlists | p. 72 |
| Library and Playlist Tricks | p. 75 |
| Views | p. 75 |
| Sorting lists | p. 76 |
| Working with columns | p. 77 |
| Searching | p. 79 |
| Burning an Audio CD | p. 81 |
| The Preliminaries to a Successful Burn | p. 82 |
| Songs | p. 82 |
| CD-RW (or CD-R) drive | p. 82 |
| Blank discs | p. 83 |
| Burn, Baby, Burn! | p. 83 |
| Troubleshooting Burns | p. 86 |
| "No burner or software was found" | p. 86 |
| Burns that fail | p. 87 |
| Labeling Burned Discs | p. 89 |
| Getting More Out of iTunes | |
| Inside iTunes | p. 93 |
| iTunes Menus | p. 94 |
| The Application menu (a.k.a. the iTunes menu) | p. 94 |
| The File menu | p. 96 |
| The Edit menu | p. 102 |
| The Controls menu | p. 103 |
| The Visuals menu | p. 105 |
| The Advanced menu | p. 106 |
| The Window Menu | p. 108 |
| The Help menu | p. 109 |
| Preferences | p. 109 |
| General | p. 110 |
| Effects | p. 112 |
| Importing and Burning | p. 113 |
| Advanced | p. 113 |
| One Last Look at Visual Effects | p. 115 |
| iTunes Visualizer shortcuts | p. 115 |
| Visual Effects plug-ins | p. 118 |
| Music on the Internet | p. 121 |
| Sharing Files | p. 122 |
| What's good about PTP | p. 124 |
| What's bad and ugly about PTP | p. 124 |
| Music Web Sites | p. 125 |
| Listen.com | p. 125 |
| MP3.com | p. 126 |
| MP3 search engines | p. 127 |
| Informative and entertaining music sites | p. 128 |
| Audible.com | p. 132 |
| Internet Radio | p. 135 |
| Radio, Radio | p. 136 |
| Listening to built-in stations | p. 136 |
| Live365.com--even better Internet radio | p. 139 |
| Still more Internet radio (if you need it) | p. 142 |
| If you already know the address | p. 142 |
| More Stuff You Should Probably Know | |
| Compression and Sound Quality | p. 145 |
| The Big Picture | p. 146 |
| Compress and Compress Some More | p. 147 |
| Choosing a bit rate | p. 147 |
| Making a reference version | p. 149 |
| Choosing a custom bit rate | p. 150 |
| The Proof Is in the Hearing | p. 154 |
| Testing 1, 2, 3 | p. 154 |
| My conclusions | p. 155 |
| Portable MP3 Players | p. 157 |
| What to Look for in a Portable MP3 Player | p. 158 |
| How Portable MP3 Players Store Files | p. 160 |
| Using a Portable MP3 Player with iTunes | p. 161 |
| How to download songs to a supported MP3 player | p. 162 |
| How to download songs to an iPod | p. 162 |
| iPod quick configuration | p. 163 |
| Other Cool Stuff | p. 167 |
| Hardware | p. 168 |
| Speakers | p. 168 |
| External CD-RW drive | p. 171 |
| A great big external hard disk | p. 172 |
| Keyspan Digital Media Remote | p. 173 |
| PowerMate | p. 174 |
| Multimedia keyboard | p. 174 |
| Software | p. 176 |
| MP3 Rage | p. 176 |
| Amadeus II | p. 178 |
| Toast 5 Titanium | p. 179 |
| iTunes System Requirements and Installation | p. 183 |
| System Requirements | p. 184 |
| Hardware | p. 184 |
| System software | p. 184 |
| Supported MP3 players | p. 185 |
| Supported CD-RW drives | p. 185 |
| Installing iTunes | p. 185 |
| iTunes Setup Assistant | p. 187 |
| How to Back Up Your Music (and Should You Bother?) | p. 189 |
| Should I Back Up My MP3s? | p. 190 |
| How to Back Up | p. 191 |
| Manual backups | p. 191 |
| The easy way: use Retrospect | p. 192 |
| Index | p. 193 |
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