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From now on, if you don’t want the entire album, you can exclude the dud
songs by turning off their checkmarks. Then click Import CD in the bottomright
corner of the screen.
You can c-click (Mac) or Ctrl+click (Windows) any box to turn all the checkboxes
on or off. This technique is ideal when you want only one or two songs in the list.
First, turn all checkboxes off, and then turn those two back on again.
In that same Preferences box, you can also choose the format (the file type)
and bit rate (the amount of audio data compressed into that format) for your
imported tracks. The factory setting is the AAC format at 128 kilobits per
second.
Most people think these settings make for fine-sounding music files, but you
can change your settings to, for example, MP3, which is another format that
lets you cram big music into small space. Upping the bit rate from 128 kbps
to 256 kbps makes for richer sounding music files—that also happen to take
up more room because the files are bigger (and space is at a premium on the
iPhone). The choice is yours.
As the import process starts, iTunes moves down the list of checked songs, ripping
each one to a file in your HomeÆMusicÆiTunesÆiTunes Music folder
(Mac) or DocumentsÆMusicÆiTunesÆiTunes Music (Windows). An orange
squiggle next to a song name means the track is currently converting. Feel
free to switch into other programs, answer email, surf the Web, and do other
work while the ripping is under way.
Once the importing is finished, each imported song bears a green checkmark,
and iTunes signals its success with a melodious flourish. Now you have some
brand-new files in your iTunes library.
If you always want all the songs on that stack of CDs next to your computer,
change the iTunes CD import preferences to Import CD and Eject to save yourself
some clicking. When you insert a CD, iTunes imports it and spits it out, ready for
the next one.
Podcasts
The iTunes Store houses thousands upon thousands of podcasts, those free
audio (and video!) recordings put out by everyone from big TV networks to a
guy in his barn with a microphone.
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