To manually manage podcasts:

1In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane and click the Summary tab.

2Select “Manually manage music and videos” and click Apply.

3In the Source pane, select the Podcasts library and drag the podcasts you want to iPod.

Playing Music

After you load music and other audio onto iPod, you can listen to it. Use the Click Wheel and Center button to browse for a song, audiobook, video, or podcast.

To browse for and play a song:

mChoose Music, browse for a song, and press Play ().

Note: When you browse for music videos in the Music menu, you only hear the music. When you browse for them in the Videos menu, you also see the video.

When a song is playing, the Now Playing screen appears. The following table describes the elements on the Now Playing screen of iPod.

Song number

Album art

Shuffle icon

Repeat icon

Song information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Song time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now Playing screen

Function

Song number

Shows the number of the song playing within the current

 

 

 

sequence of songs.

 

 

 

 

 

Album art

Shows the album art if it is included in the song’s audio file.

 

 

 

 

 

Repeat () icon

Appears if iPod is set to repeat all songs. The Repeat Once (!)

 

 

 

icon appears if iPod is set to repeat one song.

 

 

 

 

 

Shuffle (¡) icon

Appears if iPod is set to shuffle songs or albums.

 

 

 

 

 

Song information

Displays the song title, artist, and album title.

 

 

 

 

 

Song time (progress bar)

Displays elapsed and remaining time for the current song. Press the

 

 

 

Center button to show the scrubber bar, which displays a diamond

 

 

 

to show where you are. Use the Click Wheel to move forward or

 

 

 

backward.

 

 

 

 

 

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Apple 2006 Playing Music, To manually manage podcasts, To browse for and play a song