Music and Video
Syncing Content from Your iTunes Library
Playing Music
Watching Videos
Setting a Sleep Timer
Changing the Buttons on the Music Screen
Music and Video
Tap Music to listen to songs, audiobooks, and podcasts,
or tap Video to watch TV shows, movies, and other video.
iPod touch syncs with iTunes on your computer to get the songs, movies, TV shows,
and other content you’ve collected in your iTunes library.
For information about using iTunes to get music and other media onto your computer,
open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.
Syncing Content from Your iTunes Library
If you’ve turned on syncing, iTunes automatically syncs content from your iTunes library
to iPod touch each time you connect it to your computer. iTunes lets you sync all of
your media, or specific songs, movies, videos, and podcasts. For example, you could set
iTunes to sync selected music playlists, the most recent unwatched movie, and the
three most recent episodes of your favorite TV show.
If there are more songs in your iTunes library than can fit on iPod touch, iTunes asks if
you want to create a special playlist and set it to sync with iPod touch. Then iTunes
randomly fills the playlist. You can add or delete songs from the playlist and sync again.
If you set iTunes to sync more songs, videos, and other content than can fit on
iPod touch, you can have iTunes automatically delete random content from iPod touch
to make room, or you can stop the sync and reconfigure your sync settings.
When you sync podcasts or audiobooks on iPod touch with those on your computer,
both iTunes and iPod touch remember where you stopped listening and start playing
from that position.
For more information about syncing iPod touch with your iTunes library, see “Getting
Music, Videos, and Other Content onto iPod touch” on page 5.
Transferring Purchased Content from iPod touch to Another
Authorized Computer
Music, video, and podcasts sync from your iTunes library to iPod touch, but not from
iPod touch to your iTunes library. However, content you purchased using the iTunes
Wi-Fi Music Store on iPod touch is automatically copied to your iTunes library.
You can also transfer content on iPod touch that was purchased using iTunes on one
computer to an iTunes library on another authorized computer.
Transfer content from iPod touch to another computer
Connect iPod touch to the other computer. iTunes asks if you want to transfer
purchased content. You can also connect iPod touch and, in iTunes, choose File >
Transfer Purchases.
To play the content, the computer must be authorized to play content from your iTunes
account.
Supported Music and Video Formats
Only songs and videos encoded in formats that iPod touch supports are transferred to
iPod touch. For information about which formats iPod touch supports, see page 88.
Converting Videos for iPod touch
You can add videos other than those purchased from iTunes to iPod touch, such as
videos you create in iMovie on a Macintosh or videos you download from the Internet.
If you try to add a video from iTunes to iPod touch and a message says the video can’t
play on iPod touch, you can convert the video.
Convert a video to work with iPod touch
Select the video in your iTunes library and choose Advanced > “Convert Selection for
iPod.”Then add the converted video to iPod touch.
Playing Music
The high resolution multi-touch display makes listening to songs on iPod touch as
much a visual experience as a musical one. You can scroll through your playlists, or use
Cover Flow to browse through your album art.
WARNING: For important information about avoiding hearing loss, see the Important
Product Information Guide at www.apple.com/support/manuals/ipod.
Playing Songs, Audiobooks, and Podcasts
Browse your collection
Tap Music, then tap Playlists, Artists, Songs, or Albums. Tap More to browse
Audiobooks, Compilations, Composers, Genres, or Podcasts.
Play a song
Tap the song.
Controlling Song Playback
When you play a song, the Now Playing screen appears:
To Do this
Adjust the volume: Drag the volume slider.
Pause a song:Tap
Resume playback: Tap
Restart a song or a chapter in an audiobook or podcast: Tap
Skip to the next or previous song or chapter in an audiobook or podcas: Tap twice to skip to the previous song.: Tap to skip to the next song.
Rewind or fast-forward Touch and hold .
Return to the browse lists :Tap . Or swipe to the right over the album cover.
Return to the Now Playing screen: Tap Now Playing.
See the tracks in your collection from the current album :Tap or Tap any track to play it.
Display a song’s lyrics: Tap the album cover when playing a song. (Lyrics appear only
if you’ve added them to the song using the song’s Info window
in iTunes.)
Displaying playback controls at any time
You can display playback controls at any time when you’re listening to music and using
another application—or even when iPod touch is locked—by double-clicking the
Home button. If iPod touch is active, the playback controls appear over the
application you’re using. After using the controls, you can close them or tap Music to
go to the Now Playing screen. If iPod touch is locked, the controls appear onscreen,
then are dismissed automatically after you finish using them.
Additional Controls
From the Now Playing screen tap the album cover.
The repeat and shuffle controls and the scrubber bar appear. You can see time elapsed,
time remaining, and the song number. The song’s lyrics appear also, if you’ve added
them to the song using iTunes.
To Do this
Set iPod touch to repeat songs Tap . Tap again to set iPod touch to repeat only the
current song.
= iPod touch is set to repeat all songs in the current album
or list.
= iPod touch is set to repeat the current song over and
over.
= iPod touch is not set to repeat songs.
Skip to any point in a song Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar.
Set iPod touch to shuffle songs Tap . Tap again to set iPod touch to play songs in order.
= iPod touch is set to shuffle songs.
= iPod touch is set to play songs in order.
Shuffle the tracks in any playlist, Tap Shuffle at the top of the list. For example, to shuffle all the album, or other list of songs songs on iPod touch, choose Songs > Shuffle.
Whether or not iPod touch is set to shuffle, if you tap Shuffle at
the top of a list of songs, iPod touch plays the songs from that list in random order.
Browsing Album Covers in Cover Flow
When you’re browsing music, you can rotate iPod touch sideways to see your iTunes
content in Cover Flow and browse your music by album artwork.
To Do this
See Cover Flow Rotate iPod touch sideways.
Browse album covers Drag or flick left or right.
See the tracks on an album Tap a cover or
To Do this
Play any track Tap the track. Drag up or down to scroll through the tracks.
Return to the cover Tap the title bar. Or tap again.
Play or pause the current song Tap or .
Viewing All Tracks on an Album
See all the tracks on the album that contains the current song
From the Now Playing screen tap .
Tap a track to play it. Tap the album cover thumbnail to return to the Now Playing screen.
In track list view, you can assign ratings to songs. You can use ratings to create
smart playlists in iTunes that dynamically update to show, for example, your highest
rated songs.
Rate a song
Drag your finger across the ratings bar to give the song zero to five stars.
Making Playlists Directly on iPod touch
Make an on-the-go playlist
1 Tap Playlists and tap On-The-Go.
2 Browse for songs using the buttons at the bottom of the screen. Tap any song or video
to add it to the playlist. Tap Add All Songs at the top of any list of songs to add all the
songs in the list.
3 When you finish, tap Done.
When you make an on-the-go playlist and then sync iPod touch to your computer, the
playlist is saved in your iTunes library, then deleted from iPod touch. The first is saved as
“On-The-Go 1,” the second as “On-The-Go 2,” and so on. To get a playlist back on
iPod touch, select iPod touch in the iTunes source list, click the Music tab, and set the
playlist to sync.
Edit an on-the-go playlist
Tap Playlists, tap On-The-Go, tap Edit, then do one of the following:
To move a song higher or lower in the list, drag
next to the song. To delete a song from the playlist, tap
next to the song, then tap Delete. Deleting a song from the on-the-go playlist doesn’t delete it from iPod touch. To clear the entire playlist, tap Clear Playlist. To add more songs, tap
Watching Videos
With iPod touch, you can view video content such as movies, music videos, and video
podcasts. Videos play in widescreen to take full advantage of the display. If a video
contains chapters, you can skip to the next or previous chapter, or bring up a list and
start playing at any chapter that you choose. If a video provides alternate language
features, you can choose an audio language or display subtitles.
Playing Videos on iPod touch
Play a video
Tap Videos and tap the video.
Display playback controls
Tap the screen to show the controls. Tap again to hide them.
To Do this
Play or pause a video: Tap
Raise or lower the volume: Drag the volume slider.
Start a video over :Drag the playhead on the scrubber bar all the way to the left,
or tap if the video doesn’t contain chapters.
Skip to the previous or next chapter: Tap to skip to the previous chapter. Tap
to skip to the next chapter.
Start playing at a specific chapter : Tap then choose the chapter from the list.
Rewind or fast-forward :Touch and hold or
Skip to any point in a video :Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar.
Stop watching a video before it finishes playing
Tap Done. Or press the Home button.
To Do this
Scale a video to fill the screen or fit to the screen :Tap to make the video fill the screen. Tap to make it fit the screen.You can also double-tap the video to toggle between fitting
and filling the screen. When you scale a video to fill the screen, the sides or top may
be cropped from view. When you scale it to fit the screen,
you may see black bars above and below or on the sides of the video.
Select an alternate audio language: Tap , then choose a language from the Audio list.
how or hide subtitles :Tap , then choose a language, or Off, from the Subtitles list.
Play the sound from a music video Browse for the music video or podcast through Music lists. or video podcast without showing To play the music and video for a music video or podcast, the video browse for it through the Videos list.
Watching Rented Movies
You can rent movies from the iTunes Store and watch them on iPod touch. You use
iTunes to rent the movies and transfer them to iPod touch. (Rented movies are available
only in some regions. iTunes version 7.6 or later is required.)
Rented movies are playable only for a limited time. The remaining time in which you
must finish watching a rented movie appears near its title. Movies are automatically
deleted when they expire. Check the iTunes Store for the expiration times before
renting a movie.
Transfer rented movies to iPod touch
Connect iPod touch to your computer. Then select iPod touch in the iTunes window
(below Devices, on the left), click Movies and select the rented movies you want to
transfer. Your computer must be connected to the internet.
Note: Once a rented movie is transferred to iPod touch, you can’t transfer it back to
your computer to watch it there. View a rented movie Tap Videos and select a movie.
Watching Videos on a TV Connected to iPod touch
You can connect iPod touch to your TV and watch your videos on the larger screen.
Use the Apple Component AV Cable, Apple Composite AV Cable, or other iPod touch
compatible cable. You can also use these cables with the Apple Universal Dock,
available separately, to connect iPod touch to your TV. (The Apple Universal Dock
includes a remote, which allows you to control playback from a distance.) Apple cables
and docks are available for purchase at www.apple.com/ipodstore.
Video Settings
Video settings let you set where to resume playing videos that you previously started,
turn closed captioning on or off, turn widescreen on or off, and set the TV signal to
NTSC or PAL. See page 80.
Set Video settings
Choose Settings > Video.
Deleting Videos from iPod touch
You can delete videos directly from iPod touch to save space.
Delete a video In the Videos list, swipe left or right over the video, then tap Delete.
When you delete a video (not including rented movies) from iPod touch, it isn’t deleted
from your iTunes library and you can sync the video back to iPod touch later. If you
don’t want to sync the video back to iPod touch, set iTunes to not sync the video
(see page 6).
If you delete a rented movie from iPod touch, it is deleted permanently and can’t be
transferred back to your computer.
Setting a Sleep Timer
You can set iPod touch to stop playing music or videos after a period of time.
From the Home screen choose Clock > Timer, then flick to set the number of hours and
minutes. Tap When Timer Ends and choose Sleep iPod, tap Set, then tap Start to start
the timer.
When the timer ends, iPod touch stops playing music or video, closes any other open
application, and then locks itself.
Changing the Buttons on the Music Screen
You can replace the Playlists, Artist, Songs, or Albums buttons at the bottom of the
screen with ones you use more frequently. For example, if you listen to podcasts a lot
and don’t browse by album, you can replace the Albums button with Podcasts.
Tap More and tap Edit, then drag a button to the bottom of the screen, over the button
you want to replace. You can drag the buttons at the bottom of the screen left or right to rearrange them. When you finish, tap Done. Tap More at any time to access the buttons you replaced.
