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I recently "sold out" and bought myself an iPod. Here's a pro's guide to hooking it up to your head unit!But first...Unless you've been living in a cave for the past few years, you have heard of the iPod; Apple's wonderfully designed portable music player. The iPod allows you to carry the music of hundreds or thousands of CDs in a small box that fits easily in your pocket or bag. It is capable of much more, but the focus of this article is on the music. Because of the extreme portability of the iPod, many people want to bring it with them in the car. This is a problem because most cars don't offer iPod connectivity, with few exceptions. Fortunately, there are solutions for people who want to use their iPod in the car.Direct connection:Pros: Control iPod with stereo and remote controls, automatically charges iPod, perfect sound quality, easy to install, cheap Cons: None that I know of!This option is only available to owners of radios that support a direct connection to the iPod. Basically, all you need is a cable that connects to your iPod, then to the radio. Alpine is one brand I know that offers this .. more »

Re-wind to day's gone by...The early portable music players existed in Tape format, a rectangular device that was chunky (at least the size of a tape) and although did the job of playing music on the move, had many, when compared to today's technology, annoying features. Number 1: in order to play all your favourite music, you had to transport an array of cassette tapes around with you, usually in a very stylish, plastic tape box. Number 2: Let's say you put your tape in your walkman and fancy listening to track 4 on the album, this would mean either fast-forwarding or re-winding, depending on which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn't have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and trying to guess how far along you'd gone and how much longer you needed to search for.Fast Forward to the Era of CD's and Mini Disc'sBefore the days of Mobile Phones, there were devices called CD's and Mini Disks (they weren't around very long) which took away the need to fast-forward and re-wind, as with a simple press of the skip button you could select any track .. more »

SoftwareiPod Capabilities include playing:1. MP3 audio file formats.2. WAV audio file formats.3.M4A / AAC LC audio file formats.4. Protected AAC audio file formats.5. AIFF audio file formats.6. Audible audiobook audio file formats and7. Apple Lossless audio file formats.iPod capabilities of the 5th generation version plays .m4v and .mp4 MPEG-4 video file formats.Microsoft Windows version of iTunes can transcode regular non copy-protected WMA files to an iPod supported format. WMA files with copy protection cannot be played in iTunes or be copied to an iPod.What I do not like about the iPod is the inability to play some other formats, in particular the Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats. MIDI files cannot be played on iPods as well, but can be converted into a compatible audio file format by choosing the "advanced" menu on iTunes.Apple has designed the iPod to work with the iTunes media library software, which lets you manage your music libraries on your computer and on your iPod. iTunes can automatically synchronize your iPod with specific playlists or with the entire contents of a music library each time you connect your iPod to a host computer.You can also set a rating (out of 5 stars) on any song, and .. more »