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