iTunes / Import Music
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iTunes allows you to easily bring in new music into your collection by simply inserting an audio CD into your CD tray. As you see, I have an album called Growing Pains by an artist named Mary J. Blige in my computer and when you first put the CD in, a dialog box appears asking if you'd like to import that CD. Normally, simply click yes and those tracks are then brought into your library, which you'll find under music. Now, what I'm going to show you is a more manual way to do this, but I think it allows me to have more control. So let me show you how I do this. I'm going to click on Mary J. Blige's name until it's blue like this and I'm going to press on my keyboard command and C for copy. So I just copied this name here. Then I'm going to create my own playlist like so and then I'll paste that. Then I'm going to put a colon and a space and then I'm going to go back over here and copy the name of the album. And then let me find this album, here it is, Mary J. Blige. I'll click once real slow and now here's the album. So what I'm going to do at this point is I'm going to go back to that CD, click on it one time and we see the tracks available and I'm going to go back to my playlist that I just created and I'm going to manually drag them right into the playlist. I'll click on the first title, hold down the Shift key, click on the last title, then click and drag anywhere. Hold my mouse down and bring all of these into this playlist. As you see, I have a plus sign and I have the number 16. That tells me I'm bringing in 16 tracks. Now, before I let go of this, let me show you something else. You'll also notice that two of these guys have already been imported because I did that the old-fashioned way. I selected yes when the dialog box appeared asking if I want to import these. I wanted to show you this way so you could have more control and choose a song that you really like. So if you don't like all these songs, you can hold down on the keyboard the command key and just skip the songs that you don't like and select the ones that you do like and then drag them right into your playlist like so. And once you do that, you'll see that we are importing the songs. You get this little orange squiggly line thing and once each song has been imported, you will receive a green checkbox. Now, what I want to do is I'm going to stop this and I want to show you something else; how to change the album artwork. So just in case the artwork is not there, let me just go to another Mary J. Blige album and let's see here. I'm going to double click on Share My World and once again you won't hear any music playing because I'd rather you hear what I'm saying instead of the songs. So I'll double click and in a second I want to show you where the album artwork's going to be, which is right here. The artwork only shows up when you actually play a song. So let's say I want to change this album artwork. I'm going to right click on Share My World or control click to choose get info and then I'm going to go to the artwork tab right here and I'm going to click add. Now, on my desktop, I selected a picture that I got on the Internet and I'll click open and that's it. Ok. And I've change the artwork for that track. So that is how you can import music into the iTunes interface as well as change the album artwork.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iLife 08 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33854 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-53-4 |
| Release Date: | 2008-03-03 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 117 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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