The iPod has a handy design. You can hold it one hand and operate it by using your thumb. Even if you feel like your all thumbs, you can easily thumb your way to iPod haven. Most iPods have a control called a click wheel that gives you both the scroll wheel and the clickable buttons. As you move your thumb around the wheel, you can tilt the wheel pad toward the pressure-sensitive buttons underneath. Simply press the click wheel to activate the buttons.
On your iPod’s main menu, use the music button and choose cover flow to browse by cover art. You can also browse through your music by various categories such as playlist, artist, album, compilation, song, genre, composer or audiobook. If you know exactly what you’re looking for, use search to find a song, album title or artist. Likewise, you can click the video’s button to choose a movie, music video, TV show or video podcast. The photo and podcast buttons let you – guess what, select photos and podcasts.
You can look at photos by album or select all photos in the library. With the podcast button, select the podcast by title and then choose an episode. Using the Extras button, you can play with the various iPod accessories like the Clock, Contact, Calendar, Notes and Games. Use the Settings button to change setting for the menus, backlight timer, clicker, equalizer and the date and time.
If you want to play songs from your music library at random, click Shuffle Songs and you’re on your way. When you have a song playing, you see the now playing selection. To navigate around your iPod’s menus, you simply press the menu button once to get back to the previous menu. Keep pressing it and you’ll eventually get back to the main menu.
Your iPod also has buttons that control your song playback. Press the Play button to hear the selected song, album or playlist. To pause, press the Pause button. Press and hold forward to fast-forward through the song or click forward once to skip to the next song. Likewise, you press and hold the back button to rewind through the song or click it once to start the song again. This may not make the most sense, but when you want to turn off your iPod, you press and hold to the Play button. To turn it back on, press and hold any button.
If you keep accidentally pressing your iPod’s buttons, which can drive you a bit nuts, never fear. You can lock the buttons by simply sliding the hold switch to the other side. You should see an orange bar which indicates the lock position. To bring your iPod’s buttons back to life, push the hold switch back again so that the orange bar disappears. This indicates the normal unlocked position.
Supposed you want to change the volume while your song is playing, just move your thumb around the click wheel. Clockwise turns the volume up and counterclockwise turns it down.
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