Apple iPod (User’s Guide) - Manual (Page 26)

26 Using iPod
About the iTunes Music Store
Using iTunes, you can preview, purchase, and download your favorite songs from the
iTunes Music Store (available in some countries only). There are hundreds of thousands
of songs available for purchase. You can use an Apple Account to purchase songs from
the music store, or if you have an America Online (AOL) account, you can use that.
To browse for and purchase music:
1 Open iTunes and click Music Store in the Source list.
2 Click the Account button and follow the onscreen instructions to set up an account or
enter your existing Apple Account or AOL account information.
You can only have music from five different Music Store accounts on one iPod.
For more information about the iTunes Music Store, open iTunes and choose Help >
iTunes and Music Store Help.
Audio File Formats Supported by iPod
• AAC (M4A, M4B, M4P) (up to 320 Kbps)
• Apple Lossless (a high-quality compressed format, available using iTunes 4.5 or later)
• MP3 (up to 320 Kbps)
• MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR)
• WAV
• AA (audible.com spoken word, formats 2, 3, and 4)
• AIFF
A song encoded using Apple Lossless format has full CD-quality sound, but takes up
only about half the amount of space as a song encoded using AIFF or WAV format. The
same song encoded in AAC or MP3 format takes up even less space. When you import
music from a CD using iTunes, it is converted to AAC format by default.
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