iPod Music

The universal appeal of an iPod is its ability to play music of high quality without any visible distortion. Nevertheless, a regular iPod also has the ability to display contacts, calendars, notes, games and can even act as a Dictaphone if necessary through an add-on microphone and store images/pictures through a media card reader. So, it’s hardly surprising that an iPod is more than a simple music player.

Still, the prime and defining fact remains the quality of music when played on an iPod. With Apple’s iTunes, all iPod users can get access to loads of music files, and videos. Any digital music enthusiast will probably have more songs than can be stored on his iPod while also being aware of the file formats supported by the player.

An iPod can play audio file formats such as MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, and Audible audio book. Customers who have bought the iPod Photo can also view graphic files in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and PNG formats. Also, the fifth generation or the newest iPod, having a display of 320X240 pixels, is also equipped to play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC), and QuickTime video formats. Of course, there are restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates.

However, if you want to play files in the WMA format on your iPod you will not be able to do so. Apple, unlike other digital music players like Creative, does not support Microsoft’s WMA audio format. In order to play your WMA files on your iPod you will need the non DRM WMA files converter that comes with the Windows version of iTunes. MIDI files too cannot be played without being converted to audio files by using the ‘Advanced’ menu on iTunes.

So remember, you can not only pack your iPod with lots of music but also with the greatest variety possible!