IN THIS CHAPTER:
iTunes' foremost function is as a digital music organizer, a way for you to replace your bulky CD collection with a flexible, programmable digital music library that all fits inside your computer. To accomplish this, naturally, you'll have to get your music into iTunes somehow. Music you add to the iTunes Library comes from any of the following sources:
The iTunes Music Store, the method for acquiring new music that requires the least effort and the fewest middlemen, is covered in 18 Sign Up for the iTunes Music Store and related tasks in Chapter 4, "Using the iTunes Music Store." The tasks in this chapter cover the remaining methods of importing music, particularly the one for which iTunes' interface was primarily designed: importing the music from your existing CD collection. |