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Setting Up iPodclassic, About iTunes, You use iTunes on your computer to set up iPod classic

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Setting Up iPod classic 2 2 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 www.apple.com/downloads. iPod classic requires iTunes 9 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. 16

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Setting Up iPod classic
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:
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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
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Organizing your music and other audio into playlists, if you want
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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 www.apple.com/downloads. iPod classic requires iTunes 9 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.