iPod tutorial and controlling which songs go on your iPod

Apple has a nice tutorial for iPod owners entitled Getting Started with iPod. Probably worth a look & listen to if you have an iPod and want to get really comfortable using it.

You can also learn more about syncing your iPod with your Mac (or PC) over on the fill her up page that describes the process and the different options you have. Lots of people have more songs on their computer than their iPod can hold, believe it or not.

So, Apple gives you easy ways of selecting the songs you would prefer to put on the iPod.

If you have been collecting CDs since they came out twenty or so year ago, like me, you have a lot. If you are a real audiophile - which I am not, by a long shot - you might have a thousand albums worth of songs.

Add on top of that all the good podcasts, and for folks with video iPods - video podcasts and vlogs, and suddenly, you just have too much good information to fit on your iPod.

Apple lets you tell iTunes to only copy songs with checkmarks to your iPod. Or, you can tell it which playlists (smart and regular) that you want to have on your iPod. Given the incredible power packed into the smart playlist feature, this is all the flexibility and convenience you need. It is neither laborious nor complicated to get control over just what songs go onto your iPod.

Thanks to Apple's easy-to-user user interface and their easy-to-understand instructions and tutorials, you can be an iPod wizard in no time!

Then, you can show someone else how to do it...