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Transferring Music to your Portable Player using iTunes

The iTunes

Media Player application is speciﬁ cally designed to simplify the process

of synchronizing your music collection with an iPod

portable player. Support for other

devices is limited; you should check that your portable player is compatible before us-

ing this application. iTunes version 4.6 or later is required.

The Library source in iTunes shows all media ﬁ les stored on the local hard disk as well

as media which has been added from other network drives. You can add the music col-

lection from your VIA!dj to the Library as follows:

• Select the Preferences option. This can be found under the Edit menu on the

Windows edition of iTunes and under the iTunes menu on the Macintosh

version.

• Select the Advanced tab.

• Ensure that the option labelled Copy ﬁ les to iTunes Music folder when

adding to library is unchecked.

• Click the OK button to conﬁ rm any changes.

• Making sure you have Library displayed in iTunes, navigate to your VIA!dj on

the network.

• Select the music you wish to transfer; you can transfer entire Albums, or all the

music by a particular Artist, by dragging the relevant folder into the iTunes

Library and releasing the mouse button. To transfer the entire contents of your

Music Library, drag the folder entitled Albums By Artist into the iTunes

Library.

Note: the import process may take some time depending on the number of Albums and

the speed of your computer.

Once the iTunes Library source has been updated with the music from your VIA!dj, you

can update your iPod as follows:

• Connect your iPod in the normal way.

• Click the Browse button in the top right-hand corner of the iTunes window.

• Drag any item from the Genre, Artist, or Album lists onto the iPod icon in the

Source area.

The transfer process will begin shortly afterwards.

Updating the iTunes Library:

If you have removed music from your VIA!dj or edited the names of any items in the

Library you will need to update the iTunes Library to remove any broken links. To do

this, you should ﬁ rst delete all the VIA!dj Albums from the iTunes Library as follows:

• Select the View Options item from the Edit menu.

• Check the Grouping option, then click the OK button to conﬁ rm your changes.

• In the iTunes Library click the new Grouping

column heading. The Tracks

located on your VIA!dj Hard Disk will be grouped together using the label

<-VIADJ_NAME (e.g. <-ELAN-1234).

Click on the ﬁ rst Track in the list with this grouping label then, holding down

the Shift key, click the last Track.

• Press the Delete key to remove these Tracks from the iTunes Library.

• Click Yes to conﬁ rm your choice.

Repeat the import process described above to add back the VIA!dj information.