Transferring Songs, Videos, and Other Stuff to Your iPad
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convert video to different video formats as well. Flip ahead to “Converting
Files to EPUB Format” on page 130 for hints on converting ebooks.
To import an audio, video, or ebook file into the iTunes program on your
computer, follow these steps:
1. Run the iTunes program on your computer.
2. Choose File4Add to Library (Mac OS X) or File4Add File to Library
(Windows). An Add to Library dialog appears.
3. Click the file that you want to import into iTunes, and click Choose (or Open).
Your chosen file gets loaded into iTunes. Depending on the type of file you
chose, your file may appear in a different iTunes category, such as Music or
Movies.
Q NOTE: Alternatively, you can simply drag your files from Finder or Windows
Explorer into iTunes. With photos, you don’t need to import them directly
into iTunes. Instead, you can store them in iPhoto (on a Mac) orin any folder.
Transferring Music to Your iPad
The most common type of audio files you can store in iTunes and transfer to your
iPad are songs, audio lectures, and voice memos (which are typically recorded
from an iPhone). You’ll probably find the bulk of your audio files stored in the Music
category.
To transfer music and other audio files to your iPad, follow these steps:
1. Connect your iPad to your computer using the USB cable that came with
your iPad.
2. Run the iTunes program on your computer.
3. Click the name of your iPad in the Devices category in the left pane of the
iTunes window.
4. Click the Music tab to view the options for synchronizing audio files to
youriPad, as shown in Figure 16-1.
5. Check (or uncheck) the Sync Music checkbox.
6. Click the Entire music library or Selected playlists, artists, albums, and
genres radio button. If you choose Selected playlists, artists, albums, and
genres, you’ll see additional checkboxes for selecting all your playlists, art-
ists, albums, or genres stored in iTunes.
7. (Optional) Click any additional checkboxes to select specific playlists, artists,
albums, or genres.
8. (Optional) Select (or clear) the Include music videos checkbox.
9. (Optional) Select (or clear) the Include voice memos checkbox.
10. (Optional) Select (or clear) the Automatically fill free space with songs
checkbox. This option analyzes the songs you’ve selected and tries to guess
similar songs that you did not select to be transferred to your iPad. Then it
stores these additional songs on your iPad, filling up the remaining storage
space.
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