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Apple created the software iTunes for use with their mp3 player, the iPod. Even if you don't have an iPod, iTunes can be very useful for organizing and playing your music. However, all the options and uses for iTunes can be very daunting for a first-time user, especially for those not extremely computer literate.
Steps

Getting iTunes
1-Make sure your sound card and drivers are updated, and that your computer meets the minimum requirements for the program. You'll need at least 256 MB of RAM and a 500 MHz processor, more if you want to use iTunes to play videos.
2-Go to the iTunes download page.
3-Uncheck both boxes (unless you want weekly emails from Apple) and click "Download iTunes llaMA- Free." You don't have to enter your email.
4-Hit "Save" on the dialog box that pops up. Save the file somewhere you will remember, such as on the desktop.
5-After it finishes downloading, install iTunes.
6-The first time you open iTunes, it will ask you if you want all the music files on your computer added to iTunes. Click "Yes" and it will add and organize all the music that is already on your computer.

Importing Music from Your Computer
1-Locate the folder containing the files you want added to your iTunes Library.
2-Open iTunes.
3-Click on "File," then "Add Folder to Library."
4-Find the folder in the browsing window that pops up, and click "OK."
5-Wait for iTunes to finish importing the files.
6-Check that only one copy is in your Library by clicking "View" then "Show Duplicates." Make sure to leave at least one copy in the duplicate view when deleting duplicates! If you delete everything in the duplicate view, you'll lose all copies of that song in your Library.

Importing Music from a CD
1-Open iTunes.
2-Put the CD in your CD drive and wait for iTunes to recognize it.
3-Click on the new icon that should have shown up in the left-hand frame. This will allow you to view and play the music on the CD.
4-Click on "Import CD" in the bottom right corner. This will take a few minutes, depending on the speed of your CD drive.

Creating a Playlist
1-Click "File" and then "New Playlist," which is the very first option under File.
Name your playlist.
2-Drag songs from your Library into your new playlist. Alternatively, you can right-click a song, roll your cursor over "Add to Playlist" and click the playlist you want to add your song to.

Creating a Smart Playlist
1-Click "File" and the "New Smart Playlist," which is the third option down.
There will be a drop down list which has a default of artist. You can make this anything you like, for example "my Rating."
2-In the next drop down list you chose the operator. The options you have will be different depending on wat you've chosen in the first drop down list, but for "My Rating" your options will be: is, is not, is greater than, is less than and is in the range of.
3-The last section is not a drop down list but a text field or a rating picker box. Here you choose what the thing you chose in the first drop down list and the operator have to comply with. For example, if you have chosen the following: My Rating is greater than 3 stars, the playlist will only add songs that are above three stars.
4-You can now add as many other rules as you like.
5-If you want to add limits to the size of your playlist then check the first box and enter what you want the playlist to be limited to and how it should select which songs to keep.
6-Press OK.
7-Name your playlist.

Using iTunes with an iPod
1-Open iTunes.
2-Plug the iPod into a USB 2.0 port on your computer. The end of the cord that goes into the computer has a picture of a three-pronged wire on it, while the iPod end has a rectangle with a line through it.
3-Wait for iTunes to recognize the iPod.
4-Click on the iPod under "Devices."
5-iTunes and iPod can automatically sync up every time you plug in an iPod, but it is easier to manually manage an iPod by clicking "Manually Manage Music" while viewing the iPod screen.
6-To add music, simply click on them and drag them to the iPod icon.
7-To delete music from your iPod in manual mode, click on "Music" under "iPod" and select the song you wish to delete. Press the delete key and click "Yes" to the dialog box that pops up.
8-To add a playlist to your iPod, you can use a previously created playlist by clicking and dragging it to the iPod icon. Use the same steps as for iTunes to create a new playlist on your iPod.

Warnings
*You can fix a frozen iPod by using the "Restore" option in iTunes, but all the music on your iPod will be deleted!