| Launched on October 2001 as portable music device, | | | | gathered. In addition to playing and transferring songs |
| Apple Ipod today, come in a range of varied shapes | | | | from computer to the portable device, iTune software |
| and sizes with some of the most advanced features | | | | can burn and rip music from a CD as well. The same |
| to offer. The group of some of the most choicest | | | | software also aids in fast sending of photos, games, |
| music gadgets found world wide come with variety of | | | | and videos to iPods. |
| functionalities. Along with the portable HDD-based | | | | While an iPod is designed to play mp3 files, the series |
| flagship model of an iPod classic, there are ones in the | | | | of these digital audio players also supports AAC/M4A, |
| range of iPod touch. Today, if there are ones like video | | | | Audible audiobook, protected AAC, AIFF, WAVand |
| iPod nano, with ability to show videos, there are iPod | | | | Apple Lossless audio file formats. Now watch your |
| shuffle; simpler yet powerful enough to perform. | | | | photo in any of JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, or even in PNG |
| While the range of current iPod classic models play | | | | image file formats. |
| files saved on to an internal hard drive, there are other | | | | Several newer versions of iPod can also play videos in |
| models that run using removable flash memory. Thus | | | | MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) and QuickTime |
| resulting in small size and increased ease of portability. | | | | format. Now if you are in a fix over playing a music in |
| While connected to a computer, these portable | | | | Microsoft's WMA audio format just add a converter |
| gadgets get recognised as external data storage | | | | nowadays packaged with Windows version of iTunes. |
| devices. | | | | To play MIDI files also, one can convert the same with |
| To facilitate better listening experience Apple offers | | | | the help of iTunes' 'advanced' menu. Once after |
| iTunes software along with the bundle. iTune software | | | | installing a customised firmware onto the iPod, files in |
| aids in easy transfer of music files to the iPods. The | | | | any of the open-source audio formats like Ogg Vorbis |
| software also comes with a program that creates | | | | and FLAC can be played too. |
| music library on the computer from which the data is | | | | |