Apple MA978LL Features Guide - Page 17

Music Features 2 2 With iPod nano, you can take your music and audio collection with you wherever you go. Read this chapter to learn about adding music and listening to iPod nano. You use iPod nano by importing songs, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, music videos, and podcasts into your computer and then adding them to iPod nano. 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  Adding playlists, songs, audiobooks, videos, and podcasts to iPod nano  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 and video to your computer, create personal compilations of your favorite songs (called playlists), add them to 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. 17