There are many things to think about with an iPod than just the songs that will go on it. For one, someone might be wondering how many songs they can still put on their iPod. If someone is wondering how many more songs they can fit on their iPod, there is a simple way to find out. From the Main Menu, anyone can simply scroll down using the Click Wheel and choose Settings. Then from the Settings menu, they should choose About and press the Select button again to see how many songs are already on the iPod, the total capacity of the actual iPod, and how much space is still available for songs. In general, it is safe to assume that a song will take up 4GB of space on the iPod. So, adding 125 more songs would take up only around half of 1 GB. This means if the Available amount is something like 12 GB, they can load a few thousand more songs and still have plenty of room left for more.
Another way to know how much room is left on an iPod before adding more songs would be to check iTunes. When the iPod is connected, there should be an indicator on the iPod’s icon in the Source list on the left side of the iTunes window. At that point, simply look down along the bottom center of the main window and it should be easy to see a readout that shows how much space is used, and how much space is still free for adding more songs.
Another advantage of the iPod that people don’t always see is that a playlist is capable of being downloaded right on the iPod, although people normally create playlists on the computer in iTunes. It’s called an “On-The-Go†playlist (because the playlist is being created away from the computer). It is fairly simple to download songs onto the on-the-go list. The user simply has to find a song that they want in the playlist, and then click-and-hold the center Select button until they see the song title blink twice (that’s the iPod saying that it’s been added to the On-The-Go Playlist). Songs can be added until the user is ready to start hearing the new playlist. To find the On-the-Go Playlist, the user just has go to the Main Menu, scroll down to Music, choose Playlists, press the center Select button, and it will be at the bottom of the Playlists menu. From there, they can press the center Select button, scroll down to a song, and press the Play/Pause button. And that is all that is required to listen to the On-The-Go Playlist. Once the iPod is in sync with iTunes, the On-The-Go Playlist will appear in iTunes, where it can be tweaked it if need be.
Besides playing music and running slideshows, an iPod can also function as a clock, and it can even display the current time while playing songs. To do this, the first step is to set the current time. Start at the Main Menu, select Settings using the Click Wheel, and click the center Select button. From the Settings menu, choose Date & Time, and then slide around the Click Wheel to set the current time zone, time, and date. Once the time ahs been set, someone can have the iPod display the current time while playing a song, by pressing the Menu button to get back to the main Date & Time menu. Then, where it says Time in Title, press the Select button to set it to On. Now the current time will appear up in the title bar when playing a song.
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