Although newer versions of the iPod are capable of playing videos and running applications, the iPod is still primarily a music-playing device. After installing the iTunes software, which is available as a free download from Apple's website, you can add MP3 files to your music library.
Once a song or album has been added to your iTunes library, it can be transferred to your iPod using the iPod USB cable. Download the iTunes 8 software from the Apple website see Resources for link and install it on your Mac or PC computer. Navigate to the location of the MP3 files that you want to put on your iPod, highlight the file names and click "Open. See our article on adding music services to get started with using one of the services listed above.
Skip to Main Content. Navigation menu Close navigation menu. Close navigation menu. Expand search. Search Search. Play music stored on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch This article provides some ways you can play music stored on your iOS device to Sonos and some alternatives like storing your music on a computer or with a streaming service.
This is all a far cry from what was once remarkable about the iPod. As Hazel Cills noted in this space in , the iPod was a device for listening to music only , and its enduring appeal had to do with resisting everything else a smartphone can do.
Streaming music is a tradeoff for the sake of convenience, which Apple and Spotify, and the music industry at large has none too subtly pushed many of us to make.
Download sales, which represented 42 percent of the industry in , were down to an 11 percent share of the market last year. My old iPod has been sitting idle in a dresser drawer since well before that.
Something new awaits, but those years of personally downloaded and assembled playlists, which could be listened to without distractions from other apps, are resoundingly done.
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