Welcome to pack rat heaven. Now you can keep all your digital music from virtually any source in one place. Whether you’re just starting to digitize your CDs or you’ve been downloading songs for years, it’s easy to add tracks to your iTunes library.
One-click Import
Import Button
You can set up iTunes to automatically add tunes from a CD to your library when you insert a disc into your computer. iTunes will even eject the disc when it’s done. Of course you can start the import process manually, too; it’s your preference. By default, iTunes compresses your music so you can fit thousands of songs on your computer or iPod, and stores your music in the same format as the iTunes music store. It’s called AAC, and builds upon state-of-the art signal processing technology from Dolby Labs.
AAC and MP3 formats Apple Lossless
Weapon of Choice
However, you can choose to use different audio formats for any track that you import from CD. iTunes lets you convert your music to MP3s at high bit-rate for no additional charge. Using AAC or MP3, you can store more than 100 songs in the same amount of space as a single CD.
Discerning customers and audiophiles want true CD audio, and now iTunes can give you that quality with the new Apple Lossless encoder. You’ll get the full quality of uncompressed CD audio using about half the storage space. You can copy music in this format onto your iPod or iPod mini, to take perfect audio wherever you go.
Eliminate Duplicate Tracks Easily
Ever import a “Greatest Hits” album only to find that you already have one or more of the songs in your iTunes music library? Now we offer a handy way to resolve that little complication. iTunes 4.7 makes it easy to find multiple copies of the same song. Just choose “Find duplicates” from the Edit menu, and iTunes will display all the duplicate songs in your music library, making it very easy for you to decide which of the duplicates — if any — you’d like to delete.
Join tracks on import
Handy Concept for Concept Rock
Many music CDs contain songs that blend into each other, and importing them to iTunes may create a small gap between songs that interrupts the flow. If you use the iTunes Join Tracks feature, the program melds two or more songs into one, continuous gap-free track. So now you can enjoy listening to classical music, concept rock albums and extended dance mixes without the silent treatment.
Keep It All in iTunes
Convert WMA files to AAC
If you’re excited about using iTunes, but have already have a music collection built up in other programs, you’re in luck. iTunes can import music from Windows Media Player, MusicMatch and any other app that uses MP3, AAC or WMA (unprotected). iTunes 4.5 will now convert files digitized by Windows Media Player in unprotected format to AAC, so you can use them in iTunes or on iPod. When you import your MusicMatch library or other MP3 collection, you can choose to let iTunes make a copy of the library, or point to the old files. If you want to gather up all your music later, iTunes lets you consolidate your library anytime.
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