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Video IPODS: A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO iTunes and PDFs

iTunes is still known as a music management program to most of us till date, but recently Apple has added a few exciting features that will allow iTunes to organize your movies and books too. These features have been designed in order to allow music store to sell not only music but also movies and other such stuff. Above all, all these features can be used to enhance one’s own music library too.

WHAT ARE PDF FILES?

PDF stands for Portable Document Format and was developed by Adobe in the late 90s.It was developed to compress otherwise bulky documents and books, magazines etc into smaller and readable formats compatible with most of the PCs.

After announcing the iPod U2 Special Edition in collaboration with the rock band U2, Apple released a “Digital Box Set” of U2’s back catalog called The Complete U2 on October 26, 2004. This was the first iTunes musical offering that included a “digital booklet,”  which Apple called it  for the PDF version of a CD insert, and the company enabled iTunes to download and store the digital booklet alongside the rest of the U2 collection.

Since that date, Apple has released several albums with this type of addition, including Cold play’s recent X & Y, Bruce Springsteen’s Devils & Dust, the Black Eyed Peas’ Monkey Business, and Faith Hill’s Fireflies among others. Anyways Apple is doing everything that it can to attract more customers to buying music online rather than from the nearby music stores. The digital booklet appears at the beginning of the list, and no time/duration is shown. In addition, its bit rate is “Unknown.”

These PDF files can be viewed very easily by double clicking at the file containing the digital booklet. Then you can print these booklets if you want to or simply view them on your PC’s screen.

While digital booklets display together with their album, iTunes won’t copy them automatically to your iPod, since the iPod cannot display them. You can however, copy them to any location on your iPod or to any folder on your computer. Well not only can iTunes but also even you can add PDF files to your digital booklet. For example, you can add the following information in PDF format:

* Album notes that you have scanned
* CD inserts for music you have imported
* Lyrics for your favorite music
* Guitar tabs
* Band or orchestra information
* Photos
* and, of course, more…

You can do this by simply creating a text file and then converting it to PDF format or by scanning text or images and then converting it to PDF format and then you can store it on you PC in the digital booklet file.

To ensure that PDFs are stored with the specific album to which they belong, you must put them in their proper place as you do for any music file. To do this, select the PDF file, then select File > Get Info. Here you will see digital booklet is listed with the appropriate artist, album, and genre tags.

Organizing PDF Files

While you can organize your PDF files by setting their tags to match their albums, you can also create play lists with them by dragging them to a manual play list, or by making a smart play list that looks for PDF files. To do this, create a smart play list with one condition: Kind Contains PDF. With this kind of play list, you can also store the lyrics and other information about the band.

Therefore, what’s waiting u, it’s just going to take a few minutes, and all the information about your favorite bands will be there the way you’ve always wanted to.