I recall it like it was yesterday , a call from my book editor in chief … .
“ So you heard about this iPod affair that Apple ’s doing ? ”
“ Uh huh . ”
“ Think there ’s a book in it ? ”
“ Jeez , I dunno . I think of , it ’s just a music musician , right ? How much could there be to say about it ? ”
“ Yeah , yeah , that ’s what the geeks will say , but there may be more there than we think . Take a look . ”
I did , and mankind was he right . The iPod has created not only a multimillion - dollar market for accessary but has spawned both books and websites devoted to its secrets and the civilization that ’s grown up around it .
One such site is this veryPlaylist . Since its launching 18 months ago , digital euphony expert including Dan Frakes , Jim Heid , Kirk McElhearn , Jonathan Seff , Matt Vance , and yours really have explored every facet of the iPod and iTunes — from troubleshoot to the good iPod accessories to podcasting to medium conversion to picture blogging to playlist management to music encoding to … well , it just goes on and on and on .
There ’s some great stuff here but , as with any website , finding it all can take metre . It ’s for that reasonableness ( and , okay , to make a niggling money too ) that the editors of our sister issue , Macworld , have taken the unspoiled of Playlist , dressed and updated it , and unfreeze it as the Macworld iPod and iTunes Superguide . Available in three formats — a$12.95 PDF guide , a$24.99 printed playscript , or a$15 CD - ROM — you get 88,ad - freepages of pure cognitive content .
I think you ’ll like it but do n’t take my word for it , try before you buy . Check out thefree 16 - page sampleand see what you think .
