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iTunes for iPhoners
For the five or six people out there who’ve never heard of it, iTunes is
apple’s multimedia, multifunction jukebox software. it’s been loading
music onto iPods since the turn of the 21st century. and without
it, you won’t get very far with your iPhone.
That’s because the iTunes program is your iPhone’s loading dock, administrative
department, media supplier, and best friend. Most people use
iTunes to manipulate their digital movies, photos, and music, from converting
songs off a CD into iPhone-ready music files to buying songs,
audio books and video online. But you, as an iPhone owner, need it even
more urgently, because you can’t activate your iPhone or sign up for aT&T
service without it.
if you already have a copy of iTunes on your Mac or PC, you may have
encountered a warning that iTunes wants to update itself to at least version
7.3. With a click on the oK button, you can download and install that
version. and you should—your iPhone won’t work with earlier versions.
if you’ve never had any version of iTunes, fire up your Web browser and go
to www.apple.com/itunes/download.
once the file lands on your computer, double-click the installer icon and
follow the instructions onscreen to add iTunes to your life. This chapter
give you a crash course in iTunes. The next chapter covers syncing it with
your iPhone.
The iTunes Window: What’s Where
Here’s a quick tour of the main iTunes window and what all its parts do.
The Source panel at the left side lists all the audio and video sources you can
tap into at the moment. Clicking a name in the Source list makes the main
song-list area change accordingly, like so:
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