music 5 Organise If this is your first time using iTunes and you imported
music, it’s a good to get your library organised. As it grows, it gets more difficult to keep tidy. Labelling up your music will allow you to search through it more easily and enable Smart Playlists to function properly. To add information to a track, right-click it in your library, select ‘Get Info’, and click on the ‘Details’ tab.
an account 7 Get To get an iTunes account without buying anything,
iTunes Store 6 The The iTunes Store is a great way to expand your music
collection, as well as rent or buy movies and TV series for watching through iTunes or an Apple TV. Explore the Store by clicking its button or search within it by typing in the search bar and selecting the iTunes Store results tab. Preview music by hovering your mouse over the track name and clicking play.
a playlist 8 Create Playlists are useful for grouping tracks to suit a mood, to
download something free from the Store. To find free items, look in the right column of the window and click any link that includes the word ‘Free’. When you find a free item, click 'Get’ beneath its icon. When asked to sign in with an Apple id, click ‘Create Apple ID’. Choose ‘None’ as the payment type when prompted.
organise songs around a theme, or to group songs to burn to a CD. To create a playlist, select ‘New > New Playlist’ from the menu button, top-left of the window. Type a name for your playlist, hit [Enter], and you’ll see it in the sidebar. Add tracks to it by dragging them onto the sidebar. When you’re finished, click ‘Done’.
a playlist 9 Edit To make changes to a playlist at a later date, click the plus
iTunes 10 Downgrading If you preferred iTunes 11, you can downgrade. Open the Start
sign above the playlist and start dragging items to it, as before. You should be able to drag the songs in the list to reorder them; if you can’t drag a song, click the column heading above the numbers. To remove an item, select it and press the Delete key (this won’t remove the item from your library or hard disk).
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menu and select ‘Control Panel’, and choose ‘Programs and Features’. Find iTunes in the program list, right-click on the item and then click ‘Uninstall’. Once that’s done, open a web browser and visit https:// support.apple.com/downloads/itunes. Click the correct version of iTunes for your PC and the download will begin. ■