iTunes User Guide: How to Use iTunes
2011-12-29 03:49:08 /
Posted by Ivan Cook to iTunes Tips
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iTunes is a media organizing and transferring tool for Apple idevices including iPad, iPhone and iiPod. It’s the official way offered by Apple for you to transfer music, video, movies, photos, apps, TV shows and more to your iPad and other iOS devices. Via iTunes, you can also rent movies, purchase iOS apps, movies, songs and so on. Here you will learn how to use your iTunes in detail:
After the installation of iTunes, you can:
Part 1: Purchase or rent movies, music and more
iTunes Store is a multimedia center for Apple customers to watch, purchase or rent movies, music, TV shows, podcasts, iTunes U and more. And to do such kind of things, you are required an iTunes account (an Apple ID) if you haven’t, you can create one like this:
1. Head to Store menu and choose Create Account.
2. Then you will get a window like the image below, click Continue to begin creating your iTunes account.
3. Now you are asked to agree the Terms and Conditions and Apple Privacy Policy, read the detailed info and then tick “I have read and agree to these terms and conditions”, click “Agree”.
4. Enter your account info including your Email, password and more. And the email address will be your Apple ID and password entered here is the Apple ID’s password. After the complete, click “Continue.”
5. Choose your payment method and enter your billing address.
6. Then you will receive a verification email. Log in your Email and check it. In the mail message, you will get a Verify link, click it to verify.
7. Now you will go to the verification page of Apple where you need enter your email address and password just created and click on Verify now.
Now you have created your Apple ID and can access to your favorite movies, songs and more after you logged in.
There are millions of apps, movies, songs etc. provided by Apple in the iTunes store. You can search your ideal item by entering the keyword of it on the spotlight search, or click whatever category to access to the amazing iTunes media world.
Part 2. Create iTunes library and playlists, organize media files
iTunes is a good media organizing app on your computer. You can import your thousands of songs, movies and more into the iTunes library: Head to File menu and click on Add to library and load your movies, music and more to the iTunes library.
Note: Only media files in compatible formats are accepted by iTunes, such as videos in MOV, MP4, M4V, music in MP3, AAC, AIFF and MAV. If you have some videos in WMV, AVI, FLV, or MKV etc. audios in WMA etc. you need to convert your audios or videos to iTunes first. If you wanna import DVD movies into your iTunes library, rip DVD to iTunes first.
To create new playlist, you can also go to File and click New Playlist and name your playlist or click the plus icon at the bottom of the iTunes interface. Then up to Music and click on the item(s) you want to add to the playlist, choose Add to Playlist on the pop-up menu, then select the target playlist.
If you have tens of playlists and some of them are in the same music style, you can also choose New Playlist Folder, name it, and drag your created playlists to the folder to organize your playlists.
More tips:
How to Copy Playlist from iPod/iPhone to Mac
How to Share iTunes Playlist with Others on Mac
Part 3. Play movies, music and more
After the media files added to your iTunes library, you can double click the item to play them. You can turn shuffle on or off to play your music or playlist by clicking the shuffle icon at the left bottom of the iTunes interface, or play your playlist once, repeat playlist or repeat your media files by choosing the repeat icon.
Part 4. Transfer iTunes item to iPad, iPhone and iPod
iTunes is also a transferring tool for iOS devices. You can sync apps, music, movies, photos, ringtones, TV shows, podcasts, playlists, books and more to your iPad, iPhone or iPod. Take transferring movies to iPhone on Mac OS X Lion for example:
- Connect your iPhone to your Mac.
- Open iTunes if it doesn’t launched automatically, then you will see your iPhone name under the DEVICES section.
- Go to Movies in the left sidebar of the iTunes and select the target movie, drag it to your iPhone name in the DEVICES section.
Using iTunes to sync files, you will have this kind of problem: if the iTunes isn’t your iPhone’s home iTunes, for example, you connect your iPhone to your brother’s Mac, you won’t be able to sync the iTunes contents to your iPhone unless you choose to Erase and Sync. But this doesn’t mean you can’t sync your brother’s media files to your own iPhone, iPad and iPod. Iskysoft SyncPod for Mac is a one-stop shop for managing songs, movies, DVDs, TV shows, playlist, photos etc. to-and-from your Mac and any iOS device.
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