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The iPod isn't the only way to take your iTunes' music with you away from your computerit's just the most personal. iTunes was originally released into a world in which the most popular legitimate way to enjoy digital music was to create "mix" CDs of the music you own, which you could then share with your friends by playing the CDs at parties or in the car. Today, the digital music industry has evolved in a number of significant ways, as have the number of ways to let your friends and family enjoy your music; but the ability to burn custom CDs still remains as fundamental a part of iTunes as ever. It's even attained its own supporting features, such as the ability to print attractive custom CD jewel case inserts based on the album art in your music, or to create MP3 data CDs that contain hundreds of songs instead of just a couple dozen , and that play in any of the popular car stereo units or home DVD players that read MP3 discs. In the age of the wireless home network, Apple has enhanced iTunes to take advantage of emerging technology to give you even more music-sharing options. The modern home has more than one computer in it, which implies more than one copy of iTunes under the same roof; these copies of iTunes can "see" each other on the network and play each other's music, just as your daughter might borrow your CDs to play in her room. With AirTunes technology as part of the AirPort Express wireless base station, you can even hook up your computer to the big A/V system in the denno wires neededand play your iTunes' music over the best speaker system in the house. This technology is all built into iTunes, just waiting for you to discover its potential. |