Setting up your iTunes library

To listen to music on iPod classic, you first need to get that music into iTunes on your computer.

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

mm Purchase music, audiobooks, and videos, or download podcasts online from the iTunes Store. mm Import music and other audio from audio CDs.

mm Add music and other audio that’s already on your computer to your iTunes library.

Purchase songs and download podcasts using the iTunes Store

If you have an Internet connection, you can easily purchase and download songs, albums, and audiobooks online using the iTunes Store. You can also subscribe to and download podcasts, and you can download free educational content from iTunes U.

To purchase music online using the iTunes Store, you set up a free iTunes account in iTunes, find the songs you want, and then buy them. If you already have an iTunes account, you can use that account to sign in to the iTunes Store and buy songs.

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

To enter the iTunes Store, open iTunes and click iTunes Store (under Store) on the left side of the iTunes window.

Add songs already on your computer to your 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 learn how to get songs from your computer into iTunes, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.

Using iTunes for Windows, you can convert non-protected 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.

Import music from your audio CDs into iTunes

iTunes can import music and other audio from your audio CDs. 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 iTunes window. When you add the songs to iPod classic, the song information is included. To learn how to import music from your CDs into iTunes, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.

Chapter 2    Setting Up iPod classic

MC297LL/A, MC293LL/A specifications

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