tailieunhanh - iTunes: The Digital Jukebox

. iTunes: The Digital Jukebox iTunes, in your Applications folder, is the ultimate software jukebox (Figure 11-5). It can play music CDs, tune in to Internet radio stations | . iTunes The Digital Jukebox iTunes in your Applications folder is the ultimate software jukebox Figure 11-5 . It can play music CDs tune in to Internet radio stations load up your iPod music player or iPhone and play back digital sound files including the Internet s favorite format MP3 files and other popular audio formats. It can also turn selected tracks from your music CDs into MP3 files so that you can store favorite songs on your hard drive to play back anytime without having to dig up the original CDs. If your Mac can burn CDs iTunes lets you record your own custom audio CDs that contain only the good songs. Finally of course iTunes is the shop window for the online iTunes Store 1 a song . iTunes can also burn MP3 CDs music CDs that fit much more than the usual 74 or 80 minutes of music onto a disc because they store songs in MP3 format instead of AIFF . Not all CD players can play MP3 discs however and the sound quality is slightly lower than standard CDs. The first time you run iTunes you re asked a whether you want iTunes to be the program your Mac uses for playing music files from the Internet b whether you want it to ask your permission every time it connects to the Internet and c whether you want the program to scan your Home folder for all music files already on it. You can decline to have your hard drive scanned at this time. Later you can always drag it or any other folder directly into the iTunes window for automatic scanning. Figure 11-5. When the Library icon is selected in the Source list you can click the Browse button upper-right to produce a handy supplementary view of your music database organized like a Finder column view. Itlets you drill down from a performer s name leftcolumn to an album by that artist right column to the individual songs on that album bottom half beneath the browser panes . Tip The following pages present a mini-manual on iTunes. For the full scoop plus coverage of the iPod and the iTunes Store consult iPod The .