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iTunes is a program for playing music.
iTunes is located on all the Macs
Mess with things in the “Effects” tab, starting with “Crossfade Playback”. This is when iTunes will fade out the current song near its end, and fade in the next song in the playlist. Select the “Effects” tab, and use the slider to change how early the Crossfade should cut in, or uncheck the box to turn off Crossfade Playback. Check the box next to “Sound Enhancer” to make the sound coming out of your speakers or headphones sound more 3-dimensional. It can be kind of cool, but it can also mess with the balance of your sound – it’s up to you whether to turn this on or not.
Click on the "importing" tab, the first thing you’ll see is “Import Using:”, and the default setting is “AAC Encoder”. This is Apple’s propriety (Apple invented and “owns” this) song compression format, much like MP3s are owned by a company called Fraunhofer IIS. It’s up to you what format you use – each has its perks. The AAC formatted files are a bit smaller than MP3s (so you can store more), and MP3s are more easily transferable to other computers. Below the “Import Using:” box, you’ll see the “Setting” dropdown menu, where you can select the quality of the imported files – here, the higher the setting, the better the quality, but also the more space the songs take up. You can easily experiment with different recording qualities to find what quality satisfies you, while not taking up too much space. The last three settings are self-explanatory, and usually you won’t need to check the last box unless the songs which you’re importing sound really choppy.
The Sharing tab allows you to share your music for other people on the Carleton network to listen to (but not download). To do so, check “Share my music”. You can then set which playlists you’d like to share (or your whole library), what name you’d like to give to your shared music, and whether you’d like to require a password for other people to enter in order to listen to your music.
Method One: Make a new playlist by selecting “New Playlist” under the “File” menu, and name your playlist, then select individual files from your “Library” and drag them to your playlist
Method Two: Select the songs you want from your “Library” (using the “Shift” key if they’re all in a row, or the “Ctrl” key on a PC or the “⌘” key on a Mac to select individual tracks), then select “New Playlist from Selection” under the “File” menu and name your playlist.
After creating your playlist, or selecting the playlist which you’d like to burn to CD, click the circle icon above “Burn Disc” in the upper right-hand corner of the window. iTunes will then ask you to insert blank “media” (an unused CD-R) into the CD drive. After doing so, click on the “Click Here to Burn” letters, and your CD will begin recording. When the recording has finished, either push the eject button on the front of the CD drive (Windows), or click the eject CD icon in the lower right-hand corner of the iTunes window (Mac).
1) Put the CD to be imported in the tray, and close the tray. To open the tray on a PC, just push the button on the front of the CD drive. On a Mac, push the CD eject key at the upper right of the keyboard (it kind of looks like this:). If you have iTunes open, with a CD in the drive, then you have to push the “Eject Disc” button at the lower right of the iTunes window (still only on a Mac).
2) If the CD that you’re importing is a CD released by a record label (usually almost any label, major or minor, in the industry), then the track names, artist, album name, and other relevant info will be pulled up by the CDDB (CD DataBase?) when you put the CD in (assuming the computer that you’re using has an internet connection). If the CD is some mix that you’ve made, or a really obscure CD, then you might have to change the track names, artist info, etc. You can do this by right-clicking on any individual track, selecting “Get Info”, and then clicking the “Info” tab at the top. Or, if you’d like to change the info on a bunch of tracks at once, either select individual tracks while holding the “Ctrl” button on a PC, or “Apple” button on the Mac (⌘), or if you’re selecting a lot of tracks in a row, you can select the first track, hold shift, and then select the last track that you want to modify (same on both platforms).
3) Before you import the tracks, you should make sure you are using the type of compression that you’d most prefer. We recommend either using Apple’s proprietary AAC format, at 128 kbps (kilo-bits per second), or the more widely used MP3 format, at 160 kbps. You can change these settings by selecting the “Edit” menu at the top of the window, and then clicking on “Preferences…” at the bottom. In the “Preferences” window, select the “Importing” tab, and change the “Import Using” and “Setting” tab to your preferred method.
4) Finally, after you’ve selected the tracks that you’d like to import (by making sure the box next to the tracks are selected: they turn blue and have a little checkmark in them when they are checked), click the circular button above the word “Import” in the top-right hand corner (it has an arrow and music note on it), and your tracks will be imported!
There are two ways to create a playlist:
a. Select the tracks in the right-hand window one-by-one by holding “Ctrl” on a PC, or the “Apple” key on a Mac, or select several in a row by clicking on the first track, hold shift, and then select the last track. Once you’ve selected the tracks that you want, under the “File” menu, select “New Playlist from Selection” and name your new playlist.
b. Go to the “File” menu, select “New Playlist”, and name your playlist. Then, move tracks to your new playlist by selecting individual tracks (or one-by-one, described just above) or a bunch in a row (also described above) and then dragging them to your new playlist on the left.
1) Due to the popularity of the IPod and its capacity to transport files and folders in addition to music, combined with a mixed Mac and Windows campus environment, several issues can arise.
a. A modern Windows XP computer uses the FAT32 filesystem and a modern Macintosh computer format their drives as an HFS volume. Any computer with MacOSX should be able to mount a Windows formatted iPod without a problem, though if iTunes pops up, the tendency is to want to reformat and thus wipe your music, so be wary of that issue.
b. If a Windows iPod is having issues with a Windows computer in the labs, make sure the iPod is plugged in and then try these steps. Go to Start---Control Panels---System . Once there go to the Hardware tab and then click on the Device Manager. Depending upon whether the iPod is connected by USB or Firewire (IEEE 1394), expand the Universal Serial Bus Controllers or Firewire (IEEE 1394) Controller tab to see if the USB/Firewire controller has found a USB/Firewire Mass Storage Device. If it has, and has a yellow exclamation mark with the icon, then right click on the icon and click Update Driver... . In the menu that pops up, make sure the Install the software automatically button is selected and click Next. Allow the process to run and then the message on the screen of the iPod should go from the charging battery to "Do Not Disconnect", which means the iPod has mounted and should be in your "My Computer" folder.
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