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if you use Windows, you may have songs in the Windows Media audio (WMa)
format. unfortunately, iTunes and the iPhone can’t play WMa files. Fortunately,
when iTunes finds non-protected WMa files, it offers to convert them automatically
to a format that it does understand. That’s a convenient assurance that your old
music files will play on your new toy. (iTunes/iPhone can not, however, convert
copy-protected WMa files of the sort sold by rival music-download Web sites.)
The iTunes Store
Another way to get some music and movies for iPhone
and iTunes is to buy them in the iTunes Store.
Click the iTunes Store icon in the list on the left side of
the iTunes window. Once you land on the Store’s main
page and set up your iTunes account (page 264), you
can buy and download songs, audio books, and videos.
This material goes straight into your iTunes library, just
a short sync away from the iPhone.
Not everything on the iTunes Store costs money. There are plenty of free audio and
video podcasts, suitable for playing on your iPhone, in the Podcasts area of the
iTunes Store. and there are tons of iPhone-compatible movie trailers to download
at www.apple.com/trailers/. Hit that link on your iPhone’s browser and watch the
trailers stream down, perfectly formatted to the palm of your hand.
Import Music from a CD
iTunes can also convert tracks from audio CDs into iPhone-ready digital music
files. Just start up iTunes, and then stick a CD into your computer’s CD drive.
The program asks you if you want to convert the songs to audio files for iTunes.
(If it doesn’t ask, click Import CD at the bottom of the window.)
Once you tell it to import the music, iTunes walks you through the process. If
you’re connected to the Internet, the program automatically downloads song
titles and artist information for the CD and begins to add the songs to the
iTunes library.
If you want time to think about which songs you want from each CD, you
can tell iTunes to download only the song titles, and then give you a few
minutes to ponder your selections. To do that, choose iTunesÆPreferencesÆ
AdvancedÆImporting (Mac) or EditÆPreferencesÆAdvancedÆImporting
(Windows). Use the “On CD Insert:” pop-up menu to choose “Show CD.”
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