HiFi Geek

iTunes STORE

ITunes store is an online store run by the Apple Company and accessed through iTunes introduced on 29th April 2003. It has the facility to sell songs and only the iPods can play the content from the store. The videos have also been put on sale since 12 October 2005 and full length videos on 12 September 2006. However, the iPod cannot play songs from the competitors like the Microsoft WMA or Real networks’ Helix DRM. Apple even launched its Wi-Fi music store on the 5th of September 2007 which will allow you access the music store from an iPod touch or the iPhone and download songs directly that can be synced to the library of iTunes.

FILE TRANSFER IN iPod

All the IPods except iPod touch have the facility of storing the in disk mode. If the iPod is formatted on a Mac OS X then it will use the HFS+ file format whereas if it is formatted on Windows it will use the FAT32 format. In iPod, copying the audio or the video files to the drive with a file management application will not allow it to properly access them. You will have to use the software specially designed to transfer media files to iPods that are playable and viewable. The media files are stored in an iPod in a hidden folder with the database which can be accessed on the host system by enabling the hidden files to be shown. Audios can then be transferred by dragging or using the hardware.

ENHANCING OF THE SOUND

The bass distortion can be caused if the sound in an iPod is enhanced with its software equalizer (EQ) like the R&B, Rock, Acoustic and the bass booster. The EQ amplifies the audio level beyond the software limit that causes the distortion on songs having the bass drum even when the amplifier is low. Its hardware includes chipsets and electronics; microcontroller of iPod classic from the first to third generations, a 2ARM 7TDMI-derived CPUs that run at 90 MHz. The iPod Classic, iPod Mini, iPod Nano, all have a variable speed of 7TDMI CPUs that run at 80MHz. Then you have the iPod Nano that runs on Samsung System-On-Chip based on an ARM processor. Latest is the iPod Shuffle using SigmaTel STMP3550 chip.