You can listen to more than just music on your iPod; you can also listen to podcasts, audio books, recorded radio shows, and even certain magazines and newspapers read aloud for your listening pleasure. And if you've got a color-screen iPod (including the Nano), you can up your multimedia arsenal even further because you can use your iPod to look at digital photos on the go. If you have one of those video-enabled iPods, you can watch music videos, animated shorts, and TV shows from the iTunes Store, plus film trailers, home movies, and other digital videos in your collection. This article explores the iPod's other treats for your ears and eyes.
In October 2005, a longtime industry rumor came true: Apple finally launched the iPod's video-playing era. These new models (the fifth generation, if you're keeping score at home) can play videos on their gorgeous color screens, so you can while away office lunch hours, breaks between classes, and interminable bus rides by watching TV shows in the palm of your hand. This section shows you where to find video files and how to juggle them between computer and iPod, as well as how you can convert digital movies for screening on your own Shirt Pocket Cinema.
1. Finding Video for the iPod:
When Apple rolled out the new video iPods, it made sure to serve up some video content for folks to play on the newfangled devices. The iTunes Music Store now sells music videos, classic Pixar cartoons, and selected television shows, all for about $2 apiece. The store also hosts a collection of video podcasts for download.
In addition to video from the iTunes Music Store, you can add your own video files to your iPod, as long as the clips are in a compatible format, like the popular QuickTime and MPEG-4. You can tell if a video file is iPoddable by its file extension: Look for.mov,.mp4, or.m4v. Remember, though, that you can convert video from many other formats for iPod play. To add video files to the iPod, add them to iTunes first, just as you would a music track, and then use one of several synching options to copy them over to the player.
2. Using Video Files on the iPod:
Videos you buy from the iTunes Music Store (and other iTunes-friendly videos) appear in the Videos menu of your iPod after you copy them onto the device. To watch a music video, TV show, or other clip, scroll through the various Video submenus, (Video Playlists, Movies, Music Videos, TV Shows, and Video Podcasts) until you find something you want to watch.
Say you want to watch something in your Movies menu. You select Movies from the main Videos menu. The next screen lists all the files tagged as Movies on your iPod. ( apple-ipod-help.blogspot.com explains how you can label and tag music and movie files on the iTunes side of the fence before you move them to the iPod.).
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