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Synchronizing with an iPod, iPad, or iPhone
Long gone are the days when the only thing you could use to fill up your portable media player was music.
With modern iPods, iPads, iPhones, and the latest version of iTunes, you can cram your players not only with
your favorite tunes but also with music videos, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, e-books, podcasts, photos, con-
tacts, calendars, and even games. Suddenly those once-massive multigigabyte hard drives don't look so big any-
more. Whatever your device's hard drive size, if you find yourself running out of space, the alternative isn't (ne-
cessarily) to go out and buy a bigger player. Instead, iTunes gives you many options for controlling what gets
added to (or removed from) your iPod, iPad, or iPhone when you synchronize it.
If iTunes doesn't fire up automatically when you connect your device, you can force it to do so. In iTunes, click your
iPod, iPad, or iPhone in the Devices list, click the Summary tab, and then select the Open iTunes when this
device
is
connected check box, where
device
is iPod, iPad, or iPhone. Click Apply to put the setting into effect.
Synchronizing music and videos
An iOS device — whether it's an iPod, iPad, or iPhone — is a digital music player, so you probably load up
yours with a lot of audio content. Depending on the type of iOS device you have, you may have a lot of music
videos stored on it as well. To get the most out of an iOS device's music and video capabilities, you need to
know all the ways you can synchronize these items. For example, if you'll be using your device primarily as a
music player and it has far more hard drive capacity than you need for all your digital audio, feel free to throw
all your music onto the player. On the other hand, you may use your iOS device for other things, so you may
want only certain songs and videos on the player to make it easier to navigate. In such cases, you need to con-
figure the device to synchronize only those songs and videos you want to play.
You can easily tell iTunes to toss onto your device every last song and video, or just selected playlists, artists,
albums, or music genres. Follow these steps:
1. In iTunes, click your iPod, iPad, or iPhone in the Devices list.
2. Click the Music tab.
3. Select the Sync Music check box.
From this point, the options you select determine what actually syn-
chronizes.
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Select the Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres option to choose specific playlists to be in-
cluded, as shown in Figure 3.1.
If any of the selected playlists contain videos you do not want syn-
chronized, deselect the Include music videos check box.
