User guide

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4. When the program opens you'll see the music CD that you inserted on the left side (called
the Library or Source window), and the songs that are on the CD in the window will
appear on the right side
5. Click off the left window, the songs will disappear - click again on the music CD title in the
left window and the songs will reappear
6. We are going to convert all the songs on the CD to MP3 music so music will be in the
MPEG Layer 3 Audio file format and able to play on an MP3 player
7. In iTunes, go to 'Edit' and choose 'preferences' on a PC or iTunes tab on a Mac
8. Select the 'advanced' tab, select the 'Importing'' tab
9. In the 'Import Using' window, choose 'MP3 Encoder' - click 'OK'
10. Select the music CD in the left window under 'devices' so all songs appear in the right
window and shift click to select all the songs
11. Go to 'advanced' in the menu tool bar at the top and hoose 'convert selection to MP3' -
this mean that all the songs will be converted from the CD format to a format that will play
on iPods or generic MP3 players
12. You can also right click songs and choose 'convert...' from the list of choices
13. Click on library and wait until all the songs are converted - they will have green/white
check marks next to each song when the conversion is successful if you click on the music
CD icon
14. Note: If you want to hear a song in iTunes, double click the song - the control panel is at
the top left – similar to a DVD or VCR panel
15. If you don't have an iPod, and have a generic MP3 player as we do in this class, we will
manually move each song from the Library in iTunes, to the Music file folder on your
desktop
16. Open the Music file folder and make sure that both iTunes and the Music folder show
17. Manually move music from iTunes to the Music folder
18. Connect the MP3 player to the computer
19. If a window pops up, select ‘open folder to view files’ - if a window doesn’t pop up,
double click My Computer then double click the MP3 player to open the MP3 window
20. Situate the windows so you can see both and manually move the music files from the
music file folder to the MP3 window
21. Remove the MP3 player - click on the Safely Remove Hardware button on your
task bar or hold down the shift key and click once on the Safely Remove Hardware
button and click on the MP3 player that pops up to safely remove it
22. When you see the ‘safe to remove’, disconnect the MP3 player, insert headphones, and
listen to your music
ITUNES RADIO
1. Open iTunes and click on the Radio icon at the left
2. Select a genre and choose a station to listen to
WEBSTER STUDENT’S SHARED MUSIC on iTUNES (may not always appear)
Look at the ‘Shared’ icon and click on it – these are files from students on campus who share
their music
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TO REMOVE SONGS FROM THE MP3 PLAYER