6 Quick Steps to Upload Music to Your iPod Nano
Posted on 2008 under General, iPod, iPod Music, iPod Nano |27 May
1) Load the music files onto your computer
Chances are you have some CDs sitting around your house that you’d like to add to your iPod. Copy the files from your CDs onto your computer’s hard disk so it’ll be available to your iPod manager.
2) Import the music into your iPod manager
What’s an iPod manager? For most of us it’s the iTunes software Apple provides you for free. If you don’t have it on your computer already to go the Apple website and download iTunes. It’s a good starting point for new users, and it’s free!
By the way, using iTunes to manage iPod files does NOT keep you from buying music from other companies — I buy music downloads from three different vendors but use iTunes to move them back and for from my iPod.
Quick tip: If you want iTunes to put a copy of the file in the main iTunes library directory, choose Edit, Preferences, Advanced from the menu and click the “Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library.” I like to do this to make it easy to find my music files. I know that music files anywhere else on my hard drive aren’t part of the iTunes library and can safely be deleted.
Now it’s time to import to iTunes. One of the easiest ways is to click File, Add Folder to Library, and select the directory (or CD) holding your music. Click the “OK” button and iTunes will import the music to the library. You can also use the Control + O keys and select single files to add.
3) Connect up the iPod
You probably already did this, but just in case: connect your iPod nano to your computer with the the USB cable that came with your nano. You’ll know the connection’s successful when the left-hand menu in iTunes shows your iPod.
How you upload the music depends on whether you’re letting iTunes manage your iPod or have elected to “manually manage” your iPod. I prefer the “manually manage” approach because it lets me to pick and choose which files to move to my nano. It also allows me to pull files from multiple computers to the one iPod.
4) Upload your music
If you decided to let iTunes manage the uploads you’re ready to start. Just click your iPod’s icon and select “Sync” in the lower right corner. You’re done! Play with that a few times. Try making playlists to group your music, go to iStore to download a couple free podcasts, and go enjoy!
Will you manage uploads manually? You’ll need to do a quick, one-time setup. In iTunes, click the nano’s icon and select “Manually manage music and videos” on the iTunes screen. Now you just select the music you want and drag it onto the iPod icon. Voila! The music uploads.
5) Eject your iPod safely
Always, always, always click the eject button on the lower-right corner of the iTunes screen. Don’t risk corrupting your iPod files.
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