HiFi Geek

I Pod

ABOUT iPod

iPod is a PMP, Portable Media Player manufactured and designed by the Apple Inc. released on the 23rd of October 2001. It has sold over 150 million units as of March 2008 being the best audio player in the history and comes along with its online service called the iTunes store. Till date it has come up with a wide range of new and classic models like the iPod Classic, the touch screen iPod touch, the video facility of iPod Nano, the no screen iPod shuffle and the iPhone along with the previous products of iPod mini and the iPod photo

iPod Classic has the capability of storing media on an internal hard drive whereas the other models use the flash memory to enable their smaller size. Thus many iPods excluding the iPod touch can store external data but the capacity varies from model to model.

iTunes SOFTWARE

The use of the Apple’s iTunes software is to transfer music from the computer to your device using the versions of Apple Macintosh and the Microsoft Windows operating system. There are computers that cannot run the iTunes software, can use other alternatives which can help you to transfer photos, videos, email settings, contacts, games, web bookmarks and calendars to your devices. 

The iPod can connect to its host computer where iTunes can synchronize the music libraries or play lists. The iPods can play mp3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audio book and Apple Lossless formats. The iPod photo can display various images in the JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and PNG formats. The fifth, sixth generations and the iPod Nano can play MPEG4 and Quicktime video formats as well though they have to comply with the restrictions on video dimension, encoding and data rates. Even the songs can be rated and synchronized later on the library of iTunes. You can also access, play and add music.