Personal Audio

Playing movies and TV shows on your iPod used to only be a dream of many avid portable device fans. Nowadays, you can watch movies pretty much anywhere, including your iPod. Using iTunes, you can...

Watching videos on the go on your iPod's screen sounds like a great idea until you realize that the majority of videos on your computer don't play nice with iTunes or iPods. Apple has set very...

If your audiobooks happen to be in MP3 format, iTunes will not recognize them as audiobooks-allowing them to get lost amongst your music library and without the added functionality of position...

In addition to music, Apple's iPod devices can store movies, photos, playlists and memos. Unfortunately, while it's easy to get content onto an iPod, it can be quite difficult to reverse this...

You might know you can view album art on your iPod if the iPod has a screen. Those who own iPods that have screens can also add lyrics to files and place those files on the iPod. The lyrics that...

Sending music files between Palm Tungsten E2 devices can be done by using the Bluetooth technology already available on your handheld. The process is relatively short and is quickly done so long...

IncrediMail is a popular Windows email client program, famous for its use of colorful animated clip art that can be added to emails. If you use your iPod to sync your contacts from another email...

Adding music to a video for playback and enjoyment on your iPod is quite simple with Apple's iLife suite of programs. Included on every Apple computer, iMovie makes it extremely simple to add a...

You can use your iPod or iPhone to read PDF files and other documents without having to purchase a third-party iPod PDF viewing application. You can convert the PDF document using free Adobe...

RVMB files, also referred to as RMVB files, are Real Media video files that use a variable bit rate, resulting in more tightly compressed files with higher quality. While they are gaining in...

Apple's iPod is a popular MP3 player for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that you can easily add MP3 files on an iPod using the iTunes software. You can upload (or transfer) an MP3...

MySpace is a popular social networking offering music from upcoming and already established bands. Music of different genres such as rock, hip hop, R&B and more are available for you to...

When you are manipulating files in order to play them on your iPod, you have no greater tool to do it than iTunes. ITunes is capable of doing most, if not all of your audio conversions. This...

Commercials for the iPod consist of a person who moves around the screen. But unlike a normal commercial, only the silhouette of the person is seen. It is possible to make your own iPod commercial...

Windows Media Audio (WMA) files were developed by Microsoft in the late '90s as a more-efficient competitor to the popular MP3. While some of Microsoft's claims about the relative sound quality...

MP3 players have come a long way in the last ten or so years that they've been commercially available. What started out as a nice way to transport a few hundred songs in your pocket has turned...

While MP3 players are continually expanding in size, it's common for every user to reach a point when his audio library exceeds his MP3 player's storage capacity. Though expansion via a card slot...

Even the most common personal audio player in the world has its limitations. IPods are usually fairly durable and will last a long time if taken care of but you may experience freezes from time to...

Downloading movies onto your video-capable iPod entails adding video files to your iTunes library. From iTunes version 7 or later, you must download compatible video types to your iPod through a...

MP3 and Wave are popular music storage formats, but the downside is that these file formats don't allow you to separate and edit the components of sound. This is where MIDI comes in. When music is...

Apple's iPod is a great way to take a whole list of media with you, including movies and TV shows. The problem with the iPod is that it does not play all video types, and most people have video...

Video files that are downloaded for the iPod are optimized for use on the iPod. But they are not as easily accessed by other video programs. Turning an iPod file into another video format can make...

The ability of transferring songs from your iPod to another iPod or back to your computer has been realized with a slew of programs available to the public that copy music off the iPod and place...

The Zune is Microsoft's portable media player and a competitor to Apple's iPod. Both devices can play video files from each company's respective online store or from the user's private collection....

Many DVDs these days come with free digital downloads, allowing you to instantly transfer your movies onto an iPhone or iPod. Older DVDs, however, may not offer this service, since iPods were not...

Apple's iPod is great for carrying your music collection with you, but the iTunes software that is designed to work with it doesn't allow the music to be transferred from your iPod back to your...

One of the bad things about advances in audio and video technology is that you have to repurchase your entire library of songs or videos when the next generation of technology appears. If you...

iPods play only MP4 video files, but most people have all of their ripped movies and TV shows in AVI format, so they cannot be played. There is an easy and free software that can be used to...

Video-capable iPods can store and play video files of compatible formats such as QuickTime, MPEG-4 and video podcasts. IPod owners may add video to their devices for viewing or file storage...

The iPod Nano is Apple's cheapest and smallest iPod with a screen. Its small form factor, full-color display and long battery life makes it popular among mobile users who don't want to pay the...

The 5th-generation iPod Classic, colloquially known as the iPod Video, is a portable media player developed by Apple Inc. Released in 2005, it was the first iPod device able to play videos. This...

Adding videos to your video compatible iPods is actually quite easy and quick when using free software like iTunes. Once you have properly converted your videos into iPod format, adding them to...

The only problem with playing video on your iPod is that it does not use all video formats, even the most popular format, AVI. IPods use MP4 as their video format and nothing else, so other...

Most people have their videos in either DVD or AVI (audio video interleave) format, neither of which is compatible with an iPod. Yet there is a simple way to convert videos into a format that...

All kinds of videos can be played on an iPod as long as the files are in m4v, .mp4 and .mov formats. One way to watch a video on your iPod is to download any video clip or movie and convert it to...

Rhapsody To Go is a subscription-based music service that lets you download songs to listen to. Because the music is digitally protected, it cannot be copied or otherwise treated like music that...

A Zune is a portable media player that allows you to playback audio files, videos, photos and upload ebooks. Microsoft Word files are not a supported format on a Zune player, so you have to...

The iPod is a portable music player that can be synchronized to a PC for music transfer. But because the iPod was created for the Macintosh initially, it does not play the audio standard WMV...

Creative Video Converter is an application developed by Creative Technology and used on their Zen line of media players. Once you install the Creative Video Converter, you can use the app to...

The iPod supports Mpeg4 file types such as M4A and MP4 for audio, and M4V for video. Music purchased from the iTunes Store is in the M4A format. To convert an iPod M4A (audio) file to an Mpeg...

IPods seem to do just about everything. Not only can you listen to your favorite music, play games and watch movies, now you can turn your iPod into a taser. If you have ever been out and felt...

The iPod classic can store thousands of songs, photos and videos, and it can also be used as a portable hard drive. You can store any file you want on your iPod, giving you the option to carry...

The Zoom player, designed and created by Inmatrix Media Solutions, is a media player that runs on Microsoft Windows. The player has the capability to play a wide range of both video and audio...

Sandisk makes a series of MP3 players under the name "Sansa." These players range from simple flash-based digital music players to more advanced iPod clones that play music and video. Below are...

An iPod is a handheld electronic device from Apple Electronics. With the iPod, users can listen to music, watch videos, and play games. Many different versions of the iPod have been introduced,...

Ever find the song you have been looking for all day? Its time to relax and enjoy the....oh no the iPod® froze. Don't freak out and do not reset it there are ways around this so you don't...

Even though iPod screensavers do not operate as some might wish--because the iPod must be plugged in for the screensaver to work--they still can draw attention thanks to the fact that screensavers...

Your iPod screensaver may interest you now, but you can get bored with any screensaver after a while. When your screensaver starts to wear out its welcome, you can change it by slightly altering...

Screensavers for the iPod are different from screensavers on computers. Typical computer screensavers include photos or graphic elements. An iPod screensaver shows a video file that is located on...

While iTunes can play a wide variety of video formats, including MP4, M4V and MOV, some videos might have to be converted to be playable on iPods. If you have tried to copy a video to an iPod and...